On 1 January 2025, Magic Island celebrates its 20-year anniversary, and resort owners Arie Hoogendoorn and Desiree Pullens want to celebrate this remarkable achievement in
Stay current with our Scuba News section, your go-to source for all things related to the world of scuba diving.
We bring you the latest updates, breakthroughs, and trends from the diving community, as well as important conservation news and discoveries from the underwater world.
Keep your finger on the pulse of the diving world with our comprehensive and timely coverage.
On 1 January 2025, Magic Island celebrates its 20-year anniversary, and resort owners Arie Hoogendoorn and Desiree Pullens want to celebrate this remarkable achievement in
For those divers feeling their age on more arduous dives and wishing they could wind the clock back to their prime, don’t dismiss the possibility.
After 16 years of campaigning, local communities in northern Puerto Rico have finally achieved their goal – creation of a new 200sq km+ Marine Protected
A 15-year-old student from Singapore visiting the Maldives to take part in a whale shark research project with her school has died after being struck
The Egyptian Deep South is pristine, untouched and remote, and now Aggressor Adventures has added a new boat to its fleet that will access this
Researchers have located what they believe is the wreck of HMS Stephen Furness, a WW1 armed boarding steamer sunk in 1917 in the Irish Sea.
Two liveaboards well-known to scuba divers, one operating in the Egyptian Red Sea and the other in the Maldives, have suffered what are reported to
After five years of work, England’s biggest seagrass-restoration project has come to a close, with its results described as “incredibly promising” for the future. The
Leading liveaboard holiday companies Emperor Divers and Solomon Islands-based Bilikiki Cruises have joined forces. The arrangement will see Emperor promote its new partner to a
A last-minute reprieve for half of the shipwreck treasures that had looked set to be dispersed into private collections at an auction in Cornwall from
A diver has died in a cave in the Swiss canton of Ticino, with recovery of his body now presenting a challenge to expert rescuers.
An exhibition of shark-dedicated artworks called Oceanic 31 completes its two-year tour of UK exhibition spaces from late November at London’s Royal Geographical Society (RGS),
The Sea of Change Foundation is once again launching an incredible adventure-themed, online, auction-fundraiser running for an entire month, from today (1 November 2024) to 30
The death has been reported of US cave-diver Bill Gavin at the age of 65. He was co-founder of the prominent Woodville Karst Plain Project
Florida-based International Training (IT) has decided to tidy up its diver-training branding by putting its various agencies under a single umbrella – that of SDI,
The illusionary false eyes on one little fish The waters of Wakatobi are home to a diminutive master of visual disinformation. Twin-spot signal gobies are
A liveaboard has sunk in the far southern Egyptian Red Sea, after its captain appeared to have disregarded severe weather warnings. The 18 diving guests
A fisherman in Greece who found the body of a snorkeller in his nets and threw it back into the sea has been found guilty
The death of a UK rebreather diver off the south Devon coast in May was the result of “user error”, it was stated at the
Break out your Father Christmas outfit, or deck yourself out as an Elf, one of the Reindeer, or even a jolly Snowman – the Vobster
The R/P FLIP (Floating Instrument Platform), a pioneering research vessel operated for more than 50 years by the US Navy’s Office of Naval Research and
An Italian surfer has died in a freak accident in Indonesia in which a needlefish leapt out of the sea and impaled her in the
The more dives take place, the more incidents are likely to occur, and with scuba activity levels fully back to pre-pandemic levels in the 2023
Concerns that the historic collection of many thousands of items of maritime memorabilia from the Charlestown Shipwreck Treasure Museum in Cornwall were to be sold
It was quite a small vessel, but a tug that sank in northern Patagonia’s Nahuel Huapi lake in the early 20th century had taken on
Hopes for the future of the pink seafan, a gorgonian familiar to divers in south-west England and south Wales, have been boosted by the news
A submersible dive to 95m from a luxury expedition ship off South America‘s Pacific coast has resulted in the discovery of the resting place of
A nine-metre humpback whale appears to have successfully made its way back out to sea after stranding on the Scottish coastline on Tuesday. At around
Undeterred by those spines, it seems that some sharks find nothing more irresistible than chowing down on a sea urchin snack – and researchers at
Highly successful entrepreneur Wayne B Brown has announced the release of his first book, From Rags to Enrichment: How I Define Success in Business and
Prizes worth £10,000, including celebrity experiences, products and tuition, can be won for a £5 outlay in an online draw to celebrate Bite-Back Shark &
A search and rescue operation was launched in Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula last week when a solo cave-diver went missing in one of the cenotes, Dzonbakal.
Kateryna Sadurska of Ukraine has set a new CMAS world freediving depth record for Constant Weight No Fins (CNF). It was the only world record
Another diving death has occurred in Malta, as a 66-year-old British scuba diver succumbed after feeling ill during a dive at Ċirkewwa. The incident occurred
For the 34 years since it was discovered by scuba divers, a vessel sunk off the Dorset coast has been referred to only as the
A diver who decided to carry out a solo dive off Cornwall’s north coast rather than waste the day when her buddy felt unwell is
A Premier Gateway to the Underwater World! The 19th Malaysia International Dive Expo (MIDE) 2025 is set to make waves from 13 to 15 June
The little-known story of a 16th-century black salvage diver known to have dived on Henry VIII’s flagship Mary Rose and the 1546 wreck of the
A British submarine that disappeared in October 1943 with the loss of 64 men following a secret mission in the Aegean Sea has been found
The remains of a US scuba diver who went missing during a boat-dive in a remote part of Indonesia appear to have been found in
HX (previously known as Hurtigruten Expeditions) has announced an exciting new partnership with renowned marine biologist, broadcaster, Scuba Diver columnist and GO Diving Show favourite
An innovative device called HMS OCToPUS being trialled by conservation scuba divers has shown “promising signs of success”, following years of searching for effective techniques
All Star Liveaboards is running a specialised Tech Week on board its luxurious Red Sea vessel Scuba Scene in March 2025, which will feature the
The work of raising an ancient Greek shipwreck known as Gela II, associated with a cargo of rare ‘Atlantis’ metal, is on the verge of
Training agency SSI (Scuba Schools International) has launched its own “Global Ambassador” programme, featuring nine individual divers it says represent “the pinnacle of expertise” in
The British Sub-Aqua Club (BSAC) has introduced what it describes as an enhanced try-dive experience for potential new members, by tacking two eLearning modules onto
A recent incident involving treatment for decompression illness in Malta and reported on Divernet has drawn scuba divers’ attention to the possibility that even reaching
The wreck of USS Stewart, a century-old destroyer that earned the peculiar distinction of serving in the Pacific under both American and Japanese flags during
Bournemouth-based Dived Up Publications, which specialises in dive-related books, has formed a partnership with Nautilus Group to distribute its catalogue, and says the move will
A new species of chimaera or ghost shark has been discovered, apparently living exclusively in the deeper waters around Australia and New Zealand. The discovery
The Royal Navy has returned six rare loggerhead turtles to warm Atlantic waters, restored to health after being washed up in a “cold-shocked” condition on
A hyperbaric medicine specialist appears set to face criminal charges in Malta in connection with the death of UK-based Polish scuba diver Krzysztof Białecki in
A coroner has concluded that while the death of a scuba diver in Scapa Flow was accidental, it could have been prevented had appropriate equipment
The skeletal remains of the captain of Sir John Franklin’s doomed ship HMS Erebus have been positively identified – and his bones back up claims
Since the 1980s many scuba divers have taken up the challenge of finding the wreck of the John Evenson in Lake Michigan, one dive-club even
A major search and rescue operation for a scuba diver who went missing in Falmouth Bay in Cornwall on 22 September was called off by
Late Antiquity amphoras, a Byzantine anchor and an iron battle knife were among discoveries made during a recent underwater archaeological expedition in the western part
Female clearance divers have simultaneously graduated into both the New Zealand and South Korean navies for the first time The two women joining the
Young corals artificially bred using a form of in vitro fertilisation, as opposed to being cloned from fragments of existing corals, displayed significantly greater resistance
“Diving lets me explore the ocean’s beauty, and I’d love to share that with my partner, Brady,” says PADI AmbassaDiver Kayleigh Slowey from the UK,
A rusting ship with a decidedly shady past has been sunk to the bottom of Killala Bay as Ireland’s first artificial reef. The MV Shingle
It was a politically motivated tip-off from the Faroe Islands that led to the arrest of anti-whaling activist Paul Watson by Danish police in Greenland
A German woman swimming from a British-flagged catamaran has died after a shark-bite severed one of her legs. The incident occurred in international waters off
Damian Groves from Scuba Dive Adventures recently embarked on an unforgettable journey aboard the Emperor Elite, following the Famous Five itinerary in the Red Sea, and
An uncharted North Sea wreck thought to be a British ship captured by Russia in peacetime in 1904 has been discovered near the site of
Sculptor, diver and photographer Jason deCaires Taylor has fashioned spectacular underwater installations all over the world to be enjoyed by scuba divers and snorkellers, but
Two UK-based Polish rebreather divers died in Malta following a wreck-diving incident on 6 July – and now the circumstances of the death of one
With the passing of time, breaking world records become ever more challenging for freedivers – and even more so when bad weather takes a hand.
Unattributed pictures on this site are the copyright of the photographer.
Contact DIVER Magazine for details.
Copyright 2024 Rork Media Limited. All rights reserved.