A body has been found but remains to be formally identified, following the search for a commercial scallop diver who went missing on the afternoon
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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
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Lifeboat teams around the UK and Ireland took part in a special occasion dubbed “One Moment for One Crew” on 1 August – to create
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 diver who was reported missing following a dive off Old Harry Rocks at Studland on 23 July has been named by Dorset Police as
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
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
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
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
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
The preliminary findings of an investigation into the death of a wreck-diver who became entangled with the propeller of the dive-boat Karin while on a
A male diver in his 40s has died after getting into difficulties during a weekend scuba diving rally in Co Donegal in north-western Ireland. The
When diving incidents occur they can be difficult to report because they are often shrouded in secrecy – sometimes because they are regarded as detrimental
The company behind Sea Gypsy Village Resort on the remote Malaysian island of Sibu has expressed shock at the news that a negligence lawsuit has
An unusual diving death has occurred with the case of 20-year-old US student Joe Anderson, who was starting a summer-holiday job clearing weed and litter
A negligence lawsuit has been brought against a Malaysian diving resort and two of its employees, in connection with the death in 2022 of a
A search and rescue operation launched off Dorset’s Jurassic Coast on Saturday in a bid to locate a missing scuba diver was stood down yesterday
Singapore-based Pearl Fleet has hit back at criticism of its shark-diving practices voiced by an environmental conservation group, following the circulation of video footage showing
A 50-year-old New Zealand man has escaped with a fine after belly-flopping onto a killer whale from a boat in Devonport, Auckland, cheered on and
A British scuba diver who saved her twin-sister’s life in Mexico by repeatedly punching an aggressive crocodile three years ago has been awarded the King’s
Indonesia’s biggest liveaboard operator has hit back at a British guest’s description of a chaotic evacuation procedure when Sea Safari VII caught fire off Flores
A Mayday call from a dive-boat a mile south of Plymouth breakwater at 8.18 on the evening of 9 May prompted a multi-agency response, including the
The impression given by Indonesia’s biggest liveaboard operator of a smooth evacuation of the blazing Sea Safari VII on 2 May has been challenged by
A woman whose husband died while snorkelling on holiday on Maui in 2022 is taking legal action against the hotel that hired out the snorkelling
Sea Safari VII, the biggest of the phinisi schooners in Indonesia’s Sea Safari Cruises fleet, has become the latest in a string of dive liveaboards
A four-year prison sentence has been handed down to Jerry Boylan, captain of the California dive liveaboard Conception, on which 34 people died when fire
A British tourist is in intensive care following a serious encounter with a shark in shallow water at Turtle Beach, Tobago. The unusual incident brings
It’s a sad fact that snorkellers often die in unexplained circumstances around the world, but the loss of a British man in February has now
Jerry Boylan, captain of the California dive liveaboard Conception on which 34 people died when fire broke out onboard in 2019, has lost his bid
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
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
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