SpaceRef

Photo: Large Patch of Floating Pumice As Seen From Orbit

Midway on its 800-kilometer (500-mile) voyage from Auckland to Raoul Island, New Zealand, the HMNZS Canterbury received an intriguing report: a maritime patrol aircraft had spotted a vast area of open ...
WBAL

Sailors encounter floating pumice ‘raft’ drifting across the Pacific Ocean

(LONDON) — Sailors in the South Pacific were surprised this month to find themselves sailing through a sea of stone. Australian couple Michael and Larissa Hoult were on their yacht en route to Fiji ...
WFAA8

'Raft' of volcanic rock the size of Manhattan is floating toward Australia

A "raft" of light, porous volcanic rock that's as big as the island of Manhattan is floating toward Australia, and it could spell relief for the embattled Great Barrier Reef. Satellite images provided ...
Channel 3000

Giant pumice stone could help heal Australia’s Great Barrier Reef

A “raft” of floating pumice rock the size of Manhattan is drifting towards Australia, bringing along with it new marine life that could help with the recovery of the Great Barrier Reef’s corals, half ...
Bristol Herald Courier

There's a giant volcanic rock 'raft' floating in the ocean. It might actually help boost habitats.

Michael and Larissa Hoult were sailing from the Vava’u islands of Tonga to Fiji in the South Pacific Ocean when they saw it — a “total rock rubble slick” extending for miles around them. The rocks, ...