With the passing of time, breaking world records become ever more challenging for freedivers – and even more so when bad weather takes a hand.
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Grey reef sharks are being forced to desert their natural habitats the coral reefs as high ocean temperatures cause them to bleach, according to new
The enormous ocean-going liner SS United States is set to become the world’s largest artificial reef, with the news that Okaloosa County has signed an
The British Sub-Aqua Club (BSAC) is uniting with other watersport governing bodies to call for change to protect UK waters by demand stronger action from
It started with a charitable act, as a solo diver reportedly went on a mission to remove a tangle-threatening line from a shipwreck – and
World Manta Day, created to celebrate the big rays divers love to see and raise awareness of the threats they face, is back on Tuesday,
It isn’t the first time Dr Richard Smith has discovered a new marine species – including the African continent’s first pygmy seahorse – but he
The world record for Deepest Underwater Model Photoshoot looks set to change hands once again – with the location moving indoors and shooting depth lowered past
Since acquiring Divernet.com in 2021, RORK Media has been running two separate websites – ScubaDiverMag.com and Divernet.com – both serving the same niche audience. After
Fall-out from the carving of people’s names onto corals on the Philippines’ diving destination of Bohol has continued, with the authorities now convinced that one
The USA’s National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has taken the opportunity of the fifth anniversary of the Conception diving liveaboard fire to criticise the US
Fears that the Maldives was set to ditch its hard-won reputation for shark and ray protection by once again sanctioning destructive longline fishing have been
Scuba and freedivers in Malta have long complained about the dangers posed to them by uncontrolled boating and fishing around the islands’ many popular wreck-sites,
Graffiti carved into plate corals off the popular tourist island of Bohol in the Philippines has shocked local divers. A 50,000 peso reward (about £675)
A 3,600-year-old bronze dagger with silver rivets, a product of the ancient Cretan-Minoan culture, has been found on what is reckoned to be the world’s
The celebrity beluga whale Hvaldimir, once thought to have been harnessed by Russia for military intelligence activities and closely followed by the Norwegian public over
Two men, one a scuba diver and the other a freediver according to reports, died in Puerto del Carmen, the main resort area of Lanzarote
Deep-sea lifeform rarities, 20 possible new species and a new 3km-high seamount have been found across a submerged South Pacific mountain chain during a month-long
With PADI and its conservation charity the PADI AWARE Foundation hoping that their Dive Against Debris programme will be included in next year’s inter-governmental Global
In May last year, 22-year-old Ali Truwit was snorkelling from a boat in the Turks & Caicos Islands with a fellow-swimmer from the Yale University
The British Sub-Aqua Club is encouraging its members, whether scuba divers or snorkellers, to get involved with its upcoming initiative the Great British Underwater Litter
Fears are being expressed in Cornwall about the impending sale of the Shipwreck Treasure Museum in Charlestown, a property containing an historic collection of maritime
The wreck of the cruiser HMS Hawke, sunk by German submarine U-9 early in World War One with the loss of 524 officers and crew,
New gene-sequencing tools have just unlocked a well-kept secret – that there are three different kinds of great white shark and, unfortunately for them, they
Captain Paul Watson has been told by a Danish court in Greenland that because he is considered a flight-risk he must remain in jail –
French diver Paul-Henri Nargeolet had made more dives to the Titanic than any other human, so many that he was known as “Mr Titanic”. So
The wreck of the East India Company cargo sailing ship Earl of Abergavenny, an early example of a vessel incorporating iron in its construction, has
The Isle of Man’s oldest scuba-diving club has been awarded a lottery grant to enable it to train more new divers – and, it hopes,
The WreckLife project, which aims to preserve shipwrecks around the Maltese islands and use technology to bring them to a wider public than scuba divers,
It’s not unknown, because Divernet reported on a similar encounter in May last year, but it’s rare enough to get marine biologists excited: a bluntnose
Scientists have pushed back hard against what they regard as a complacent assessment by the United Nations of the level of threat posed to the
The Colombian government has issued a new statement about its much-anticipated exploration of the 600m-plus deep San José, the Spanish treasure ship thought to have
Captain Paul Watson has been held in prison by Danish police ever since his ship arrived in Greenland on 21 July. The veteran anti-whaling campaigner
Swedish authorities have acted quickly to protect the “Champagne Wreck” found off Öland on its Baltic coast by Polish divers in late July. The Swedish
The first underwater archaeological investigation of the North Pacific waters off Attu in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands chain has revealed Japanese and US shipwrecks from what
Lifeboat teams around the UK and Ireland took part in a special occasion dubbed “One Moment for One Crew” on 1 August – to create
The British ocean liner-turned-troopship Arcadian, torpedoed by a German submarine during WW1 with the loss of 279 lives, has been discovered 163m deep in Greece’s
The Diving Museum in Gosport has been closed during 2024 for restoration of its “damp Grade II* listed building” but has ambitious plans to reopen
Lake divers in the North-west of England will be watching to see whether Capernwray Diving Centre finally finds a new owner to maintain and develop
It’s a sight divers might hope never to see, but for the first time researchers have recorded images and data of a shark being struck
It was only after drifting in the Gulf of Mexico for some 38 hours that a scuba-diving couple were rescued last week – just as
Another major search and rescue operation was launched in the Channel yesterday afternoon (27 July) in response to reports of a scuba diver missing on
The sinking of the Noongah in 1969 was one of Australia’s worst post-war maritime disasters, and led to one of its biggest-ever searches for survivors,
The Baltictech diving group from Poland benefits from exploring northern seas that preserve their secrets in excellent condition, and now the divers have made another
The diver who was reported missing following a dive off Old Harry Rocks at Studland on 23 July has been named by Dorset Police as
The discovery that oxygen is not only being stored but created in the unlit depths of Earth’s oceans has been described as “one of the
A search and rescue operation is continuing off Dorset between Swanage and Poole Bay for a scuba diver who was reported missing close to Old
A second diver death in the space of a month has occurred off Co Donegal in north-western Ireland. The victim this time is reported to
An exceptionally well-preserved bronze cannon from the 17th-century protected shipwreck the London has been revealed on the seabed after 360 years of being buried in
From a whale species never seen alive to a rare individual venturing back to former killing fields off Ireland, and a humpback unusually close to
Archaeological divers exploring Egypt’s Nile river near Aswan have discovered depictions of four pharaohs in rock engravings and paintings made at least 2,300 years ago.
PADI professionals and dive-centre / resorts are competing with each other to get as many divers as possible up to Master Scuba Diver level before
The most threatened reef fish are also the ones that are most overlooked by both scientists and the general public, according to a team of
Training agency PADI and its conservation charity the PADI AWARE Foundation are aiming to have their Dive Against Debris programme adopted into the Global Plastics
World breath-hold records in the many categories under CMAS pool competition rules started falling from the opening day of the Belgrade World Freediving Indoor Championship
Only five days after the death of a scuba diver following an incident in the Channel off Eastbourne, another has gone missing in the same
Underwater archaeologists in Croatia have made an unprecedented musical discovery while surveying an armed merchant ship that sank near Cape Franina at the east end
The ancient Antikythera wreck in Greece was discovered by sponge divers in 1900 and later became famous by yielding remains of the world’s first-known computer
Greece’s most successful submarine wreck-hunter, Kostas Thoctarides, has made another significant underwater discovery. Three years ago he located the bulk of the WW2 Italian submarine
A scuba diver who was picked up from the Channel west of Eastbourne, Sussex by a search and rescue helicopter on Monday (8 July) was
The two Polish divers who died following a wreck-diving incident in Malta on the morning of 6 July, reported on Divernet two days ago, were
One of two Royal Netherlands Navy submarines wrecked in Malaysian waters during WW2 appears to have become yet another victim of unlicensed salvors in South-east
When two scuba divers were reported to have ascended too rapidly off Portland at around 2 o’clock yesterday afternoon (7 July), the Coastguard asked Weymouth
Two Polish scuba divers have died after one of them, a 45-year-old man, got into difficulties while exploring Le Polynesien shipwreck in Malta and his
British Sub-Aqua Club branches in UK waters are inviting divers who qualified through other training agencies to join them to get a flavour of club
Training agency PADI has launched a new Divemaster internship programme to encourage the next generation of scuba divers to “go pro” through what it says
Croatian freediver Boris Milošić, 27, has claimed a new world record for the longest underwater walk completed on one breath, after covering a distance of
The Red Sea liveaboard Exocet sank on the evening of 25 June after breaching its hull on a coral reef near Marsa Alam in southern