Researchers in China have reported what they believe is a major breakthrough in shipwreck conservation, after developing a hydrogel that can quickly neutralise harmful acids
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Diveheart, the internationally recognized non-profit dedicated to empowering individuals of all abilities through scuba diving, received the prestigious Platinum Diving Community Champions Award at the
Coral spawning: All hands on deck for the Great Barrier Reef baby boom Tourism operators and local Reef industry worked through the night during the
The death of an 18-year-old on his first scuba dive has led to the biggest workplace fine in the history of the US state of
Bonaire TeK is rapidly becoming one of the most-significant tech-diving events in the Caribbean, and the 2024 edition – held as always at the popular
Specialist police searches are being carried out in north Wales for a diver identified only as Imrich, 53, from Warrington in Cheshire. North Wales Police
British divers among the seven people still unaccounted for after the sinking of the Sea Story liveaboard in Egypt have been named as Jenny Cawson,
What earlier this year had been suspected to be the wreck of the plane belonging to missing 1930s aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart, has turned out
It was only last month that Ukrainian freediver Kateryna Sadurska set a new world depth record of 80m in Constant Weight No Fins (CNF). Now
The Coastguard has stood down a multi-agency search for a scuba diver who went missing in Scapa Flow, leaving Police Scotland to continue with its
UK dive media platform Scubaverse has announced its acquisition by a new limited company called Multiversal Media, describing the change as a strategic move that
Tomorrow is the last chance for you to be in with the opportunity to scoop a raft of prizes, including a Red Sea liveaboard, a
A Chinese diver wearing a brightly coloured novelty hood is reported to have been bitten on the back of the head by a tiger shark
Eight people, including two Britons, remain missing following the sinking of the Red Sea dive liveaboard Sea Story yesterday (25 November). Four bodies are reported
Forty-five people went missing in the Red Sea early this morning (25 November) when the liveaboard Sea Story was reported sunk during a diving trip
A 25-year-old man from the UK has died after reportedly losing consciousness while scuba diving off Greece’s Attica coast near Athens, on the afternoon of
If you have seen a sea robin on a dive, you’ll know that this ‘walking’ fish has a set of six legs that move rapidly
Australian Diving Instruction, a PADI 5* instructor development centre in Geelong, south of Melbourne in Victoria, has been fined Aud $40,000 (£20,460) for the explosion
For attendees at the world’s largest dive industry exhibition DEMA in Las Vegas (19-22 November), specialist travel agency Diveplanit Travel says it has been showcasing
The first nudibranch known to dwell in the ocean’s bathypelagic or midnight zone, far beyond the reach of sunlight, has been described by researchers from
Dive RAID International has introduced two new courses designed to bridge gaps between its technical and recreational programmes – Nitrox Plus and Decompression Diver. The
Diving instructor Shafraz ‘Shaff’ Naeem has set himself record-setting challenges in the past, and this February he plans to embark on an ambitious if enjoyable
British-born Barbados champion freediver Alex Davis was using a newly acquired metal detector to scour the seabed off his adopted Caribbean island when the instrument
Leading dive events the GO Diving Show and the Scuba Show have formed a promotional partnership aimed to maximise their exposure on a global scale.
The deep-lying wreck of a US Navy destroyer sunk following a valiant last stand against the odds during World War Two has been discovered in
World’s largest seagrass nursery unveiled to supercharge restoration of Great Barrier Reef ecosystems Seagrass restoration on the Great Barrier Reef will be significantly boosted thanks
Two World War Two bomber wrecks in Canada have been commemorated by dive-teams. Both aircraft crashed and sank in 1943, were rediscovered in 2022 –
Five of a group of six scuba divers went missing from their dive-boat in Hawaii on 6 November – and according to the diver who
Healthy Seas Foundation and its partners have concluded their year-long “Operation Ghost Farms – Reclaiming Waters” project with what the foundation says was a comprehensive
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