British cave-diver Josh Bratchley, who was made an MBE following his role in last year’s Tham Luang cave-rescue in Thailand, has himself had to be rescued after being trapped in a US cave for 28 hours. Read more...

Training agency PADI has teamed up with action-cam manufacturer GoPro to launch an underwater video competition for scuba-divers, freedivers and snorkellers. Read more...

A free online course is being offered by UK-registered charity the Reef-World Foundation to help diving professionals to conduct environmentally friendlier dives, manage their guests better and prevent them damaging coral reefs. Read more...

A scuba diver died following an incident at the National Dive & Activity Centre inland dive-site near Chepstow in Gloucestershire on Thursday (11 April). Read more...

A scuba-diving spearfisherman who went missing from his boat off Trinidad managed to swim back to shore after spending a reported 16 hours in Atlantic waters. Read more...

Russia's government is reported to have ordered that nearly 87 beluga whales and 11 killer whales confined in cramped pens should be released - a decision that coincided with a recent visit to their enclosures by US oceanographer and diver Jean-Michel Cousteau. Read more...

A Canadian scuba diver is reported to have died following an underwater incident on the Caribbean island of Dominica. Read more...

A judicial review into proposed dredging of Goodwin Sands off the Kent coast has been granted and set for 5 June at the High Court in London. Read more...

Turkish maritime archaeologists have found what they believe is likely to prove to be the world’s oldest shipwreck, lying 50m off the Mediterranean coast west of the city of Antalya. Read more...

A basking shark has been filmed being pulled up in the net of a French trawler in the Bay of Biscay. Read more...