North Atlantic right whale mothers dial down their normal loud calls when communicating with their calves - to avoid attracting predators. The discovery has been made by a US research team working in the whales’ calving grounds off Florida and Georgia. Read more...
Corals in the Maldives are showing some resilience, adaptability and even recovery from climate-change effects, according to marine biologist Dr Jean-Luc Solandt, following a reef-monitoring diving expedition, the latest in a series undertaken over each of the past nine years. Read more...
The UK's biggest annual event for scuba divers, the Birmingham Dive Show on 26/27 October, is fast approaching! Read more...
Seahorse Trust founder and diver Neil Garrick-Maidment has won his battle to hold to account oil companies carrying out exploratory drilling at environmentally sensitive UK sites. Read more...
The Hephaestus, a 60m-long tanker that ran onto rocks in Malta last year, is now set to be deliberately sunk as the Mediterranean islands’ latest wreck attraction. Read more...
The Mares Quad Dive Computer has a large, easy to read LCD display which shows all essential dive information even at a quick glance, but is actually quite slim on the wrist so doesn't become cumbersome or a snag hazard while diving. Read more...
Fourteen-year-old Cruz Erdmann from New Zealand has won the title of Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2019 with Night Glow, this portrait of an iridescent bigfin reef squid, taken on a night dive in Lembeh Strait, Indonesia. Read more...
Aqua-Firma carries out annual whale shark research and photography trips around the Mexican Caribbean island of Mujeres, and this year the team reported seeing more than 150 whale sharks on some days. Read more...
British freediver Alice Hickson has broken Sara Campbell’s 12-year-old Constant Weight No Fins (CNF) national record by a metre, with a 57m dive in Cyprus. Read more...
A successful Guinness World Record (GWR) attempt to have the greatest number of freedivers under water simultaneously at one location has taken place at the Baros Maldives resort. Read more...
