Aggressor co-founder Wayne Hasson dies
One of the best-known names in the international scuba world, US diver and liveaboard operator Wayne Hasson, has died of cancer at the age of 70. Read more...
Coral Greenhouse open to divers
The Coral Greenhouse and the Ocean Siren, the first phases of UK diver-sculptor Jason deCaires Taylor’s Museum Of Underwater Art (MOUA) project on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, have been unveiled. Read more...
Lawsuits pile up against Conception owners
Relatives of four more victims of the fatal Conception diving liveaboard fire off California last year have filed wrongful-death lawsuits against the vessel’s owners in a federal court. Read more...
Six seahorses create rising star
This extraordinary photograph of six baby seahorses was not the Best In Show in the latest Ocean Art competition but it came very close – topping the Novice Macro category and winning Julie Casey the title of Rising Star Photographer. Read more...
Speccy cuttlefish visit 3D cinema
Scientists keen to learn how cuttlefish are able to see in 3D have fitted them with stereoscopic red and blue spectacles - and found that, while their eyes might be very different from those of humans, their way of seeing is not so different. Read more...
Lundy clipper wreck becomes monument
A rare clipper shipwreck, the South Australian, has been designated as a Scheduled Monument on the 2019 National Heritage List for England. Read more...
Now ocean robots fly solo
The first known instance of an underwater robot taking a sedimentary sample autonomously has occurred on Kolumbo, an active volcano 500m deep off the Greek Aegean island of Santorini. Read more...
Ease into ghostnet diving
Scuba divers keen to get involved in underwater operations to remove ghost-fishing gear in the UK have been invited to a wintertime get-together to find out more. Read more...
Dive instructor ‘unaware of COTS danger’
A New Zealand diving instructor is suing his ex-employer, Great Barrier Reef dive operator Tusa Dive, for more than Aus $1.6m (about £830,000). He claims that crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS) stings caused him to lose most of the use of his right hand. Read more...
Shark kills scuba diver in Australia
It’s unusual for a scuba diver to be attacked by a shark, but an Australian man was killed by what was believed to be a great white off Western Australia’s southern coast on 5 January. Read more...