A British rebreather diver has died on a shore-dive in less than 2m of water after watching his two children training in Green Bay near
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The owner of a Welsh online company that sold golfballs retrieved from lakes has been jailed for 32 months for
A female scuba-diver is missing, feared dead, following a night-dive at Preston Hill Quarry in Inverkeithing, Fife on Sunday (9
The family of Sharkwater film-maker Rob Stewart, who died while diving a deep wreck in the Florida Keys at the
The body of missing Canadian film-maker and eco-activist Rob Stewart was found late on Friday (3 February), near the 70m-deep
Archive – Gear NewsScubapro Nova 2100 SF Dive Light This dual-beam dive-light is equipped with six Cree LEDs delivering a 2100-lumen 65� wide beam as well as an
A 23-year-old British woman died on her first scuba dive at a Great Barrier Reef site after being put at risk by the dive school,
Laguna Beach emerges from the canyons of the San Joaquin Hills and spills around a Mediterranean.
Think you could go for up to a month ‘plastic-free’? That’s the challenge from the Marine Conservation Society (MCS), which is asking people to give
Wildlife author and scuba diving photographer Paul Naylor is one of a number of speakers set to appear at a free event showcasing the South-west’s
A fatal saltwater crocodile attack on a snorkeller has been reported in the Raja Ampat area of eastern Indonesia. The body of 37-year-old Russian tourist
The Vanishing Dutchman mystery… solved Last October, DIVER published the story of a mysterious 18th-century shipwreck found off the coast of Sierra Leone in west
The wreck of a pleasure-cruiser that disappeared in 1966 off south Cornwall with the loss of 31 people may have been located. The news follows
The deep site of a Roman shipwreck was found near Crete well over a century ago. Among other artefacts it yielded the world’s oldest-known computer.
A film which provides a shocking reminder of the cruelty of shark finning has been deemed unbroadcastable for television. The 45-second, black and white commercial
TDI, the other big name in technical diving, has also taken the plunge into recreational diving. Formed in 1994 in the USA by technical diving
Is one of these privateers lying off Anglesey? Rico Oldfield has been beneath its waters in a bid to find out. OUR WORK site is a
IT’S AS MUCH A ROUTINE AS GOING TO THE OFFICE, and I’ve been doing it every summer for 10 years. We sit on the rocks
A shark has killed a swimmer off Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, days after three other swimmers and snorkellers were badly hurt in shark attacks in
Attacks by what is believed to be a single oceanic whitetip shark have left several Red Sea snorkellers seriously injured. Update: Swimming death escalates attacks
The name blue-ringed octopus sends a shiver of terror through some – but for underwater photographers this tiny creature is an object of desire, say
Divers at war This superbly researched and objectively written book by acclaimed diving historian and author Michael Jung has been expertly translated from German into
An Indiana Jones-style expedition to track down the oldest human artefact to survive under water, while avoiding the attentions of great white sharks and stinging
A post mortem has concluded that an excessive build-up of carbon dioxide caused the black-out and death of rebreather diver Dave Shaw. The Australian died
It happened last summer in remotest Indonesia when a 4m-plus reptile grabbed David Shem-Tov with intent to harm. Few divers have been attacked before –
How good is your buoyancy control? The recent DIVER Buoyancy Challenge at Action Underwater Studios saw 60 divers find out more about their skills. Sean
Crystal skulls, priceless emeralds – a US dive team hit paydirt when they called in psychics to help locate a legendary treasure ship, and the
When the DIR (Doing It Right) philosophy of diving first arrived from the USA, Brendan O’Brien wrote what was, it must be said, a somewhat
Reports from Korea indicate that John Bennett was lost, and is presumed dead, after a 45m trimix salvage dive on a wreck on Monday 15
The miniscule number of shark attacks occuring around the world has fallen for the fourth year running – perhaps because the chances of encountering a
The free-diving community was shocked in December by the news that the most famous free-diver of the last century, Jacques Mayol, had committed suicide. Bernard Eaton knew
The diving world was shocked when famed British diver Rob Palmer died in mysterious circumstances in the Red Sea – last seen at 120m on
Jonathan Bird had a weird experience when diving in the Bahamas last year. He saw this sort of elongated fish thing, with two long antennae,