Divers find ‘needle in haystack’
Scuba divers from Weymouth & Portland Sub-Aqua Club (WPSAC) have made recovering a boat-owner’s lost wedding ring from Weymouth Harbour look easy, despite anticipating a fruitless search. Read more...
Plymouth gun could be 400 years old
A cannon that could be from an English Civil War shipwreck has been discovered in Plymouth. The small gun was pulled up last month during maintenance dredging near the Devon city’s Cattedown Wharves. Read more...
Discover UK Diving at Wraysbury
It’s “Discover UK Diving Weekend” at inland site Wraysbury Lake in Middlesex on Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 June, with guest presentations, equipment demos and underwater try-outs plus expert advice all laid on alongside the usual scuba-diving opportunities. Read more...
Deptherapy shows it can be trusted
Scuba diving rehabilitation charity Deptherapy says it has become the first volunteer-managed and run charity ever to receive the “Trusted Charity Mark” from the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO). Read more...
Maldives manta returns from the dead
A male manta ray called Babaganoush, well-known to Maldives marine biologists and divers, has reappeared in Baa Atoll’s Hanifaru Bay six months after sustaining what were believed to be fatal injuries from a speedboat strike. Read more...
Attractions of Solitude
Solitude Liveaboard & Resorts consists of two boats and two resorts, with one of each located in Indonesia. Its 36m aluminium-hulled catamaran Solitude Adventurer offers various itineraries from Raja Ampat to Komodo, with “a multitude of special trips” in between. Read more...
Cave-diver died in open water
Galway-based cave-diver and rescuer Michal Marek died on Sunday (12 May) following an open-water dive off Malin Head in County Donegal, in the north of Ireland. Read more...
Vescovo becomes deepest diver – by 16m
The fourth of Victor Vescovo’s Five Deeps Expedition submersible missions has resulted in the US explorer becoming the deepest diver in history. Read more...
Black Sea wreck art treasures investigated
Paintings by one of Imperial Russia’s best-known artists, Ivan Aivazovsky, are reported to have been found on a 19th-century shipwreck in the Black Sea near Crimea. Read more...
Diver’s death inspires fund-raiser
A fund-raising page has been set up in memory of scuba diver Richard Sanders, who died while diving at the National Dive & Activity Centre inland site near Chepstow on 11 April. Read more...