It must have seemed obvious – snorkellers off the Greek island of Zakynthos who came across what looked like the
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Dive into the depths of the unknown with content dedicated to the whole wide world of scuba diving. From mesmerising marine-life encounters through wreck exploration – including our renowned Shipwreck Tours – underwater archaeology and cave-diving, this section also covers scuba diving technique and training advice, the sport’s celebrities and much more.
There are great reads here for everyone from novice to the most experienced of scuba divers.
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The Sub-Aqua Association (SAA) has taken over representation of the sport of underwater hockey or octopush in the UK from
The Lundy annual “Splash-In!” underwater photographic competition is going online this year in an attempt to attract more entries.
Some sharks are consistently bolder than others, say researchers at Australia’s Macquarie University, who report observing individual personality differences among
The biggest-known sponge in the world has been discovered at a depth of more than 2km in Hawaii by the
The Australian government has persuaded UNESCO to remove from a major report on global climate change all references to diving
The first images from an ROV scan of the WW1 warship HMS Hampshire have been released by the University of
The long-lost wreck of HMS P311, one of the first British WW2 submarines to carry Chariot human torpedoes, is reported
Spanish Civil Guard police- and archaeologist-divers have recovered valuable items from the protected wreck of the 19th-century English brig La
A diver has been sentenced to 150 hours of community service after being found guilty of unlawfully removing £50,000-worth of
As the 100th anniversary of the WW1 Battle of Jutland looms, an investigative news website called The PipeLine has revealed
A model has drowned during an underwater mermaid-themed photo-session in Taiwan. The death occurred at a popular tourist site near
A jury has rejected the $25 million compensation claim of the widow of US diver Wes Skiles against the Florida-based
British Sub-Aqua Club members have rejected by a substantial majority a special resolution that would have submitted the club to
A dive-team has found remains of a fleet of 17th-century Dutch East India Company ships wrecked off south-east Sulawesi in
The northernmost island in Thailand’s Similan National Park in the Andaman Sea is to be closed to visitors indefinitely. The
The smell of algae-covered bleached coral can endanger reef fish by preventing them from identifying predators, according to new research.
It took more than 120 dives in an 11m-deep sinkhole in Florida, but a team of US archaeologists now believe
The Marine Conservation Society has made clear its position on the forthcoming EU Referendum with an announcement that without the
No sooner had Nikon launched its flagship pro D5 DSLR camera than Nauticam released an underwater housing for it.
This new handheld is powered by four AA alkaline batteries housed in an aluminium body impregnated with Teflon.
This cutting tool features a 70mm 6-4TI titanium serrated-edge, drop-point blade.
The LED Stingray from Ammonite Systems is a compact hand-held said to deliver 1000 lumens of light through a 16�
The latest product from Swedish exposure-protection expert Waterproof is its H1 High Visibility hood, which has an orange-coloured surface with
Designed for freediving, Scubapro’s new S3 fin has a hydrodynamic, optimised foot-pocket that’s claimed to lower drag while being ultra-soft
Mares’ new range of tec dive-gear features the XR stainless backplate, a component in its modular wing BC system.
Germany’s Federal Aviation Office is to allow resumption of direct flights to the Red Sea diving resort of Sharm el
A professional gold prospector scuba diving off Anglesey in north Wales has come up with the biggest gold nugget ever
The widow of noted underwater photographer and film-maker Wes Skiles, who died in a diving incident in Florida six years
Scuba divers looking to get married somewhere warm next year while getting into the record books and helping to boost
From kids who grew up on Finding Nemo to underwater photographers and aquarium fish-hunters, everyone loves anemonefish. JAMIE WATTS and
AND BREATHE â¦
Why the book will survive
Come in, the water’s fine
MORTON BJORN LARSEN is impatient â it’s the waiting he finds hard to take.
But when blue sharks are in
It’s not necessarily a technical dive, just venturing beyond your standard level into the world of deco-stops and the pressing
New research into the effects of deep-ocean diving and space exploration on the human body is to be carried out
When he turned 90, pioneer diver, WW2 veteran and active dive-club member Ray Woolley descended to 90ft to celebrate.
The first rebreather received the roughest baptism imaginable 119 years ago – deep in the workings of the Severn Tunnel. The inventor said he’d never
It didn’t require scuba divers but an unusually hot, dry spell of weather to reveal what is thought to be
It makes Springwatch look distinctly homely, and it’s likely to be the nearest most of us will get to diving
Freediver William Trubridge broke his own five-year Free Immersion world record at the weekend – and now he has smashed
Archaeologists believe they are closing in on identifying the wreckage of British explorer James Cook’s ship HMS Endeavour off the
Online audience participation is being requested for an unusual underwater macro-photography clash between groups of underwater photographers in Europe and
New Zealand freediver William Trubridge has set a new 122m world depth record in the Free Immersion (FIM) discipline. His
It isn’t exactly a new idea in reality TV, but if you’re a UK scuba diver preparing to relocate for
It’s no small undertaking to explore Titanic’s sister-ship, the WW1 hospital vessel Britannic, which lies deep off Greece. A recent expedition with wreck preservation as
We were diving on the Lutzow, one of the largest wrecks in the Jutland battlefield area. This 26,000 ton battlecruiser was abandoned by her crew
Stories are often told of great shipwreck discoveries from the depths, but what of the wrecks that are most reluctant to reveal their whereabouts? Leigh
Kendall McDonald, a former Fleet Street editor, has been diving (and writing about it) for more than 45 years. He has been DIVER’s wreck expert
Could an ocean liner blessed with awesome visibility 135m down off the north coast of Ireland be the best wreck dive in the British Isles
HMS Manchester lies off Tunisia in 85m of water – MATT OUTRAM recently led an expedition to explore it. Photography by Chris Simons THE LOOK
This is your assignment if you choose to take it – dive the Maltese island wrecks and compile a load of ‘Top Five’ tables. John Liddiard takes
The Schleswig Holstein sailed into a harbour near Gdansk on an apparent courtesy visit, only then to fire on the Polish garrison. These, as it
A few months back, we found out what its like to dive the 125m-deep Transylvania. Now technical diver Barry McGill goes looking for seldom-dived and
A quickly discovered bell meant that identification came hot on the heels of discovering a deepwater shipwreck off south Cornwall. Now the diver who found
Finding the second-largest naval war grave in the Channel, and the only accessible example of a World War Two German raider was a long-held ambition
Images of the world-famous warship wrecks of Scapa Flow, created using the latest sonar visualisation technology, reveal exactly how they lie on the seabed –
UNTIL five years ago, 80 civil servants shared the task of receiving wreck in the UK. When their jobs were combined into a single one