NEWS

Instructor jailed for molesting trainee

A diving instructor has been jailed for two years in South Korea for sexually molesting a female tourist during an underwater training session. Read more...

Stern of ‘shipwreck that made it home’ found

The missing 23m stern section of a World War Two US destroyer that survived a mine-strike against the odds has been discovered Read more...

September Maldives liveaboard saver

A discounted 7-night liveaboard dive tour of the Maldives’ next month is on offer. Read more...

Whale-shark joy-ride ends in arrests

Police are reported to have arrested a group of scuba divers shown recently in a video riding on the back of a small whale shark Read more...

‘Japan pig’ named as seventh pygmy

A seventh species of pygmy seahorse, and the fifth to be discovered in Japanese waters, has been classified Read more...

Sharkwater Extinction gets closer

The much-anticipated documentary Sharkwater Extinction directed by the late shark-conservationist film-maker Rob Stewart Read more...

Last-minute offers for Indonesia, Red Sea, Maldives

A selection of last-minute dive offers in Indonesia, the Red Sea and Maldives are available from Diverse Travel. Read more...

Black Sea yields two well-kept secrets

Archaeologists have discovered the wreck of a Greek trading ship dating back more than 2500 years in the northern Black Sea off the coast of Ukraine. Read more...

New, improved Divernet is here!

Welcome! Divernet has a whole new look, as you’ll have noticed the moment you landed on this homepage. Read more...

Diver hit by boat in Florida

Incidents of scuba divers being struck by boats are not as rare as they should be, but what’s more unusual is an apparent hit-and-run incident. Read more...

Big names back shark-respect campaign

TV presenters Steve Backshall and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall have joined Wendy Benchley, widow of Jaws creator Peter Benchley Read more...

Diver describes earthquake effect under water

A British diver has described what it was like to be under water in north Bali when the earthquake that devastated neighbouring Lombok Read more...

Five ways to fund whale-shark research

A crowdfunding campaign to help protect whale sharks has been launched by Dr Simon Pierce, co-founder of the charity Marine Megafauna Foundation (MMF). Read more...

Spooked baitfish swarm around diver

A diver has been filmed in the Egyptian Red Sea surrounded by a baitball formed by schooling fish apparently alarmed by the presence of a nearby whale shark. Read more...

Virtual Reef Diver project under way

Millions of Australians - and any other citizens of the world who wish to join in - are being encouraged to take a "dry dive" on the Great Barrier Reef Read more...

Freediver frees entangled whale shark

A 6m juvenile whale shark in Hawaii has a family of snorkellers to thank for freeing it from a thick noose of rope around its head. Read more...

Diver dies on solo night-dive in Taiwan

The body of a scuba diver who carried out a solo shore-dive by night on Taiwan's north coast on 1 August was found the following morning. Read more...

The definition of exclusive

Kokomo Private Island in the Kadava Islands claims to be Fiji's most exclusive resort, "an all-inclusive private escape for the inter-generational traveller". Read more...

Two ways to dive mystery Solent wreck

An unidentified 19th-century sailing ship 21m deep in the Solent is featured in the latest virtual wreck-discovery trail to be commissioned by Historic England (HE). Read more...

Nautilus Liveaboards has a new 33m vessel called Nautilus Gallant Lady, and in a period up to mid-January it's offering five-night trips to Cabo Pulmo, a hard-to-reach World Heritage Site in Mexico. Read more...

Whale sharks stick to the Philippines

A satellite-tracking study of 17 juvenile whale sharks, said to be the most comprehensive ever carried out in the Philippines, has shown that although highly mobile all the sharks remained within the country's waters during the tracking period. Read more...