Rare pre-WW1 sub in Devon protected

Prototype British submarine HMS/m D1, the forerunner to the Royal Navy’s patrol submarines of WW1, has been designated a Protected Wreck. Scuba divers can visit the 50m-deep site but the wreck and its contents must remain in situ. Read more...

UK’s shark-fin traders cut off

A loophole that before Brexit had allowed shark-fin traders to operate with impunity in the UK is set to be closed. New law will require all imported and exported fins to remain attached to the shark’s body and be traded as a whole commodity. Read more...

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Rare pre-WW1 sub in Devon protected

Prototype British submarine HMS/m D1, the forerunner to the Royal Navy’s patrol submarines of WW1, has been designated a Protected Wreck. Scuba divers can visit the 50m-deep site but the wreck and its contents must remain in situ. Read more...

UK’s shark-fin traders cut off

A loophole that before Brexit had allowed shark-fin traders to operate with impunity in the UK is set to be closed. New law will require all imported and exported fins to remain attached to the shark’s body and be traded as a whole commodity. Read more...

Minke whale rescue west of London

Marine-life news stories rarely occur so close to the Divernet offices, but a stranded young minke whale that had found its way as far up the River Thames as Richmond in Surrey had to be rescued in the early hours of this morning (10 May). Read more...

  • On the wreck of the submarine M2.

Our European Tour – Part 2

Swedish film-makers Linn Venneberg and Mattias Granberg tour Europe in their campervan, initially diving on Sweden’s own west coast. Part 2: Time to head south-west and start crossing borders. Read more...

Our European Tour – Part 1

Two Swedish film-makers currently travelling around Europe for 15 months in a campervan with their two dogs to discover the continent both above and below the surface. Part 1: Slow start in Sweden. Read more...

The Hazardous Crew

For almost 40 years West Sussex divers have been keepers of the flame of an English shipwreck from the early 1700s, describing it as a site that just keeps giving. Read more...

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