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From left: Christopher Boodram, Kazim Ali Jr, Yusuf Henry, Rishi Nagassar and Fyzal Kurban. Only Boodram would survive the pipeline dive later that same day
Diver pipeline deaths blamed on oil company’s ’criminal negligence’
Hulhumale (Zairon)
Prop severs female diver’s leg in Maldives
Stuart Cove’s operated a Blue Adventures concession at the Atlantis resort on Paradise Island (Craig Stanfill)
Stuart Cove’s investigates after shark bites boy
Divers experience the shock of an underwater earthquake (@redoyjoy9999)
Earthquake divers: careful what you believe
Licence plate from the Ford Freestar (Sunshine State Sonar)
Divers Solve Two More Cold-Case Mysteries
The Reggae Queen
British woman, Thai cook missing as dive-boat capsizes
The Red Sea resort of Ras Nasrani, where a snorkelling death occurred
Lack of evidence impedes Sharm snorkel death probe
Fire on Master Liveaboards’ Indo Siren
Blaze consumes Indo Siren liveaboard
View of Lake Oliver Dam (OSHA / Butler Kahn)
Diver sucked into dam-pipe: operator settles
Divers hot by sonar: HMAS Toowoomba (US Navy)
‘Unsafe & unprofessional’ Chinese sonar hits divers
Police seek surfer: Terrigal Haven (John Turnbull)
Police seek surfer who rescued scuba diver
Guilty verdict for Conception captain (National Transportation Safety Board)
Guilty dive-boat captain showed ’unpardonable cowardice’
The killer whale Lolita in Miami Seaquarium (PETA)
Failing Seaquarium gets 6-week ultimatum
Cava Island, Scapa Flow (Colin Park)
Scapa dive-boat hit diver on deco stop
Dive instructor Dennis Reid was based in eastern Cyprus
Cyprus fatality named + death in Philippines
Houton, Orkney (Colin Smith)
Another diving death in Orkney
The Zenobia ferry wreck in Cyprus (Dronepicr)
Diver’s body found inside Zenobia
The Zenobia ferry wreck in Cyprus (Dronepicr)
Search resumes for Zenobia wreck diver
Cava Island, Scapa Flow (Colin Park)
Scapa wreck diver named
Han Ting - a diver’s body has been found
Body found in search for Chinese cave-diver
Brett Hemphill (KUR)
KUR dive-team recover Brett Hemphill
Record-breaking cave-diver Brett Hemphill
Cave-diver Hemphill lost at Phantom Springs
King Charles meets JFD staff at Aberdeen’s Global Underwater Hub
King Charles gets diving update in Aberdeen
HSE HQ in Portsmouth
Portsmouth divers faked dives to qualify
Conception at dawn on 2 September, 2019. The fire is now thought to have started in a rubbish bin (National Transportation Safety Board)
Killer liveaboard blaze began in rubbish bin
The island of Kea
Britannic expedition deaths: ‘Let down by Greek authorities’
Health Benefits of Coconuts for Divers
Health Benefits of Coconuts for Divers
SMBs need to have a diver attached (Mark Murphy)
Improper use of SMBs and diver-down flags
diver Andrea Zuccari
Red Sea: Freediver Zuccari vanishes on scuba + woman missing
The Weymouth lifeboat was involved in the search for a missing diver (RNLI)
Diver dies off Portland

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