Climate change is pushing marine animals towards the poles and setting threatened species on unpredictable collision courses - a point illustrated by a new report on great white sharks produced by Monterey Bay Aquarium in the USA. Read more...

A 57-year-old cave-diver has died while trying to get through a short underwater section of a system in southern Germany. Read more...

Emperor Divers has a question for you: do you know a scuba diver who has been heroic during this past pandemic year? It wants to reward no fewer than eight nominated Covid Diver Heroes with free seven-night liveaboard trips in the Red Sea or Maldives. Read more...

Can underwater film-makers desecrate a wreck simply by capturing images of it?  Read more...

The bones of at least six pirates have been discovered at the site of the early 18th-century shipwreck Whydah Gally, off the Cape Cod peninsula on the USA’s Atlantic coast. Read more...

The latest international chapter of Netherlands-based ghostnet removal group Ghost Diving is to be in the UK, the volunteer organisation has announced. Read more...

Freshwater wildlife cameraman Jack Perks is looking for backing from scuba divers and others for his latest project – a one-hour documentary film called “Britain’s Hidden Fishes”.  Read more...

“Sharks’ Skylight”, an image of blacktip reef sharks cruising beneath seagulls at sunset in French Polynesia, sees Renee Capozzola from California named Underwater Photographer of the Year 2021.  Read more...

An 11.5m baleen whale that stranded off Florida’s Everglades National Park two years ago has turned out to be a species previously unrecognised by science. Dubbed Rice’s whale, the new species has already been classified as Critically Endangered. Read more...

Last spring divewear manufacturer Fourth Element came up with its own UnderBathWater Photography Competition as a way of counteracting the diving limitations of lockdown. Now the Instagram-based contest is back – and in expanded form. Read more...