How mantas make friends
Manta rays form social relationships and actively choose their social partners, according to a new study that claims to be the first to describe such bonds. Read more...
September deal at Somabay
A 7-night late-deal holiday at the Red Sea resort of Somabay is on offer from Holiday Designers. Read more...
IoW find alters Stone Age perceptions
An 8000-year-old platform, described as the most intact wooden structure from the Middle Stone Age ever found in the UK, has been found at a depth of 11m off the Isle of Wight - in what is believed to be the world’s oldest boat-building site. Read more...
Team finds sub’s missing bow
The bow section of a US Pacific Fleet submarine that disappeared on its maiden patrol during World War Two has been found off Alaska’s Aleutian Islands. Read more...
Whirlwind hits trouble in Red Sea
Red Sea liveaboard Whirlwind, part of the Tornado Marine Fleet, was damaged when it struck a pinnacle on Thursday, 15 August, and divers aboard later had to be evacuated. Read more...
Divers return to famed Arctic wrecks
Park Canada has resumed what it says is the biggest and most complex underwater archaeological undertaking in Canadian history - the exploration of Sir John Franklin’s 19th-century British expeditionary ships HMS Erebus and HMS Terror. Read more...
O’Three T-Shirts
Diving exposure suits specialist O’Three has two new T-shirts to wear between dives. Read more...
Cine Bag CB70 Grouper
Nauticam UK has taken on the Cine Bags camera luggage line, and the CB70 Grouper’s 40 x 30 x 28cm dimensions are said to be large enough to transport a fully assembled underwater stills camera. Read more...
Jazz singer missing after cave-dive
A German jazz singer has disappeared following a scuba dive in what is said to be the South Pacific’s largest underwater cave. Read more...
Freshwater fish that live to 100+
The longest-living marine vertebrates, the Greenland sharks, can survive for many centuries, but until now freshwater fish have not been known to live much beyond the age of 70. Read more...