Britain’s endangered spiny seahorses have recolonised their former stronghold of Studland Bay in Dorset - that’s the conclusion following a dive by a team from marine-conservation charity the Seahorse Trust.  Read more...

Long-established restrictions on scuba diving in Greece are finally reported to have been lifted by the country’s parliament, as it bids to maximise visitor numbers in the wake of its success to date in limiting the spread of coronavirus. Read more...

A 2300-year-old stone anchor inscribed with a dolphin symbol has been retrieved by scuba divers off the north-west coast of Sicily. Read more...

Diving doctors have expressed concern that they do not know how scuba divers’ lungs and heart will recover after Covid-19 infection.  Read more...

Scuba divers have investigated the remains of what is thought to be a late 18th / early 19th century ship off Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula. The timber hull has disintegrated but an Admiralty-pattern anchor, 2.5m cannon and cast-iron ballast have been found, suggesting that it was an English sailing vessel. Read more...

A major search is underway for a male teenage snorkeller who went missing off Portland in Dorset yesterday evening (Wednesday, 27 May), and Portland Coastguard has issued an urgent appeal for anyone with information to come forward. Read more...

A pioneer in the development of underwater cameras and housings has been lost with the death from coronavirus of Austrian diver Kurt Schaefer. Read more...

A popular inland dive-site in south Gloucestershire has been forced to shut its doors  permanently following closure of the quarry. Read more...

Scuba divers might have noticed that instead of bleaching white in response to ocean warming, some corals put on a dazzling rainbow display of colours. Now scientists from Southampton University believe they have discovered how and why. Read more...

A tip-off from a South African diving instructor has led an international team of marine biologists to identify a new species - the first pygmy seahorse ever to be found in Africa.  Read more...