Described by scientists as the biggest disease epidemic ever observed in wild marine animals, Seastar Wasting Syndrome has killed millions of starfish along the Pacific Coast from Mexico to Alaska over the past six years. Read more...

New Zealand freediver William Trubridge has carried out a "dolphin-style" underwater swim across the 14-mile-wide Cook Strait that separates the country’s North and South Islands, coming up for air between each of 930 breath-hold dives along the way. Read more...

A British scuba diver has died after losing consciousness on what is understood to have been a boat-dive in the Canary Islands. Read more...

Sticky excretions from oceanic bacteria are glueing plastics particles together to form larger masses, according to research by Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. Read more...

Inquests into the deaths in the British Isles of three scuba divers, two British and one Canadian, took place yesterday (13 February). Read more...

The wreck of one of the most significant aircraft-carriers of WW2 has been located off the Solomon Islands by the expedition team aboard Petrel, the US wreck-research vessel operated in the name of the late Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft. Read more...

The London Diving Chamber, which has treated many scuba divers for decompression illness in its 15 years of existence, is to close its doors at the end of March. Read more...

Divernet Xtra competition winner Simon East has sent us this picture of him diving in Tenerife with his new Aqua Lung i770R dive computer worth £620. Read more...