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Conception (Santa Barbara Sheriff's Office)
Dive-liveaboard captain jailed for four years
This shark bounty announcement was later withdrawn
British tourist injured in Tobago shark encounter
Three Pools, Dahab (Hagar Magdy)
UK coroner records first IPO verdict on snorkeller
Conception fire
Dive liveaboard captain’s retrial bid overturned
Jared Hires (Dive Rite)
Cave-diver Hires had unprovoked seizure in 2023
The two-person chamber at Oban (Tritonia Scientific)
Divers urged to back reprieve for Oban chamber
Sea World One on fire near Thap Lamu pier (Kamara One)
Dive-boat blazed, whale shark grabbed in Thailand
Rescue: PADI Course Director Marcus Kitching-Howe
British dive-pro came to the rescue in Malta
Cirkewwa on the island of Malta (Jose A)
Diver dies, 17 rescued at windy Malta shore-dive site
Wind River, Washington state
One state agency fines another for snorkeller’s death
Son tried to get help for father: Juno Beach in Florida (FFWCC)
Diver dies as son ascends fast to get help
Plate Taille Dam (Jo Baker)
CCR scooter divers were sucked into dam inlet
Blaze aboard the Oceanic in Raja Ampat
Oceanic Liveaboard Catches Fire In Indonesia
Seal off Cape Town (Tim Sheerman-Chase)
Seal Bites Six Scuba Divers – Cause Unknown
Hulhumale (Zairon)
Spooked sharks hit divers in Maldives
Divers rescued a woman at Whittlesey Co-op
Good Samaritan divers break out O2 in Co-op
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

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