Emperor turns sideways
According to Emperor Divers Red Sea, most of its guests who have dived with sidemount when asked if they would ever go back to backplates reply: “Never!” Read more...
Palau’s Jellyfish Lake reopens
Jellyfish Lake, a long-established attraction for divers visiting Palau in Micronesia, has been reopened following a two-year closure to allow its depleted population to recover. Read more...
Switching Lever for APD Mouthpiece
Rebreather pioneer AP Diving has introduced an upgrade for its Open Circuit Bail-Out Mouthpiece. Read more...
Devil rays steal the show
The Best of Show image in the prestigious 2018 Ocean Art underwater photo competition has been judged to be “Devil Ray Ballet”by British photographer Duncan Murrell. Read more...
Israeli divers on river mission in Hungary
A team of Israeli scuba divers is mounting an operation on the Danube in Budapest from today (15 January) – their task to retrieve the bones of some of tens of thousands of Hungarian Holocaust victims who were shot and thrown into the river in 1944. Read more...
Australian diver awaits ID on wreck find
Scuba diver Marc Payne has discovered the wreck of what he believes to be an immigrant ship built more than 160 years ago, off Albany at the southern tip of Western Australia. Read more...
Mayor of Cambridge dies after dive
A British scuba diver who died following a heart attack on Friday, 11 January, at Umkomaas in South Africa has been identified as Nigel Gawthrope, the Mayor of Cambridge. Read more...
Underwater Centre rescuer outbid
A £3 million bid by a former student of the Underwater Centre in Fort William to keep the commercial-diver training operation going appears to have been overturned by a rival offer. Read more...
‘Save up to 40% off liveaboards’
Savings of up to 40% off liveaboards in destinations including Truk Lagoon (pictured) and the Philippines are on offer in its January sale, says blue o two. Read more...
It’s NEC Hall 1 again for DIVE 2019
THE MOVE INTO Hall 1 at the NEC for last year’s Dive Show proved popular with both exhibitors and the 15,000-plus visitors who turned up over two days for the premiere event in the UK diving calendar. Read more...