Elusive smalleye sting rays are the biggest marine sting rays on record, growing as wide as 2.2m. But little had been known about them before photo ID was used for the first time recently to study them in Mozambique waters. Read more...

The 65m Airbus A330 scuttled off Turkey on 14 June as reported on Divernet didn’t hold its title of “world's biggest aircraft/artificial reef” for long. Six days later the Bahrain Tourism & Exhibitions Authority (BTEA) officially announced that it had sunk a 70m Boeing 747, the centrepiece to what it describes as the world’s largest underwater theme park. Read more...

“A once in a lifetime opportunity for someone to purchase a WW1 battleship or cruiser!” The notice of the sale on eBay of four Scapa Flow warships earlier this week, prompted by publicity surrounding the centenary of the scuttling of the German High Seas Fleet, was taken by some at first as a hoax. Read more...

Scottish diver Andy Phillips, the manager of Utila Dive Centre in Honduras, has died on a dive in Canada’s St Lawrence river. Read more...

An Australian scuba diver has confirmed the identity of a celebrated 41m tugboat that sank more than 100 years ago off South Australia. Read more...

Volunteers are being sought to adopt a beach and organise a clean-up and survey on it, as part of the Marine Conservation Society’s four-day Great British Beach Clean event from 20 to 23 September. Read more...

A 65m-long Airbus A330 airliner has been scuttled for scuba divers at a depth of 30m in the Aegean Sea off north-western Turkey. The plane took four hours to sink a mile off the port of Ibrice in Edirne province on Friday (14 June), with the first dives taking place the following day. Read more...

The many scuba divers familiar with north Wales centre Anglesey Divers have been shocked by the sudden death of its co-owner Caroline Sampson at the age of 51. Read more...