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...
A rare clipper shipwreck, the South Australian, has been designated as a Scheduled Monument on the 2019 National Heritage List for England. Read more...
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...
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...
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...
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...
A cave-diver in his 60s has died while exploring part of the Three Counties System in Cumbria. The man’s body was recovered from access-point Lancaster Hole by a team of volunteers in the early hours of Sunday (5 January). Read more...
Brittlestars have no eyes but one species has been shown for the first time to be able to see - thanks to its ability to change colour from day to night. It is only the second-known example of vision in any eyeless animal. Read more...
The Pacific scuba-diving destination of Palau has become the world’s first nation to protect its coral reefs from damaging chemical sunscreens, as a ban on their manufacture, importation or sale came into force on New Year’s Day. Read more...
There can be no better time to launch an ambitious underwater-world project than the start of a new year and a new decade - and PADI president and CEO Drew Richardson has done just that. Read more...
