Londoner Toby the youngest MSD
Toby Monteiro-Hourigan from London became the world’s youngest PADI Master Scuba Diver at least for a time when he recently completed his training the day after his 12th birthday. Read more...
Toby Monteiro-Hourigan from London became the world’s youngest PADI Master Scuba Diver at least for a time when he recently completed his training the day after his 12th birthday. Read more...
A previously unsuspected second population of blue whales has been identified in the Indian Ocean from their unfamiliar song patterns. Read more...
This housing is designed to enable divers to shoot underwater stills and video with Apple iPhones 7, 7 Plus, 8, 8 Plus, X, Xr, Xs, Xs Max, 11, 11 Pro Max and SE (2nd Gen) models, as deep as 40m. Read more...
Weddell seals can produce chirps, whistles and trills at frequencies beyond human hearing range, according to new research. Weddells are highly vocal, but the ability to emit such ultrasonic calls has never before been identified in any of the 33 known species of seal, sea-lion or walrus. Read more...
Pharaoh Dive Club owners Clare and Steve Rattle have been working and diving around the Egyptian Red Sea for nearly 30 years and run the popular Roots Red Sea centre which, as they fairly say, put the town of El Quseir on the map. Read more...
Members of the volunteer force British Divers Marine Life Rescue spent Christmas Eve on an East Yorkshire beach in rough weather - but were unable to provide a happy ending to the mass stranding of 10 sperm whales. Read more...
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As a breath-hold time it was relatively short, certainly for Stig Severinsen, but a recent horizontal dive by the veteran Danish freediver has smashed a previous distance record by 25m and has just been featured as “Record of the Day” by Guinness World Records (GWR). Read more...
Some smart thinking at Akona seems to have led to the launch of this product. Read more...
The first instance of a deep-sea sponge with the ability to create its own light has been reported by deep-sea researchers – following a chance “touch” in the laboratory. Read more...