Cave-diver Jared Hires, who died in Norway’s Plura cave system on a practice dive on 3 April, had suffered an unprovoked seizure last year, putting
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Scuba divers are being asked to sign an online petition in hopes of securing the reopening of the hyperbaric chamber at Oban in Argyll. Its
The latest diving liveaboard to catch fire, fortunately in harbour and with only one person, a crew-member, onboard at the time, is Sea World I
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A British PADI Course Director has emerged as a hero of the incident in which a Dutch scuba diver died and a number of other
A Dutch scuba diver has died and 17 others had to be rescued after strong winds blew over the Cirkewwa shore-diving site in Malta yesterday
The death of a snorkeller in Wind River in the USA’s Washington state has resulted in one state agency fining another thousands of dollars for
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A scuba diver has died off Florida’s east coast while reef-diving from a boat with his 14-year-old son. Finding himself in difficulties on the seabed
Two rebreather divers using scooters died on a night dive earlier this year, after apparently venturing too close to a Belgian hydro-electric dam. Christophe Gauder
The Oceanic liveaboard has suffered a catastrophic fire while operating in Raja Ampat, Indonesia. The blaze, which occurred at around mid-day on 1 March, was
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An unusual incident occurred off South Africa’s Atlantic coast on the morning of Saturday, 2 March when a Cape fur seal ran riot among a
Just weeks after a US scuba diver was badly injured by a dive-boat propeller at a site close to the Maldives’ capital Malé, guests from
Two experienced scuba divers on their way to a UK inland site have been able to put their safety equipment and rescue training to good