NEWS
Illegal Armada wreck-diving prompts warning
An investigation is under way in Northern Ireland following reports that scuba divers have removed artefacts from the protected Spanish Armada shipwreck La Girona. Read more...
Malta sinks another patrol boat
Patrol boat P-33, formerly used by the Armed Forces of Malta (AFM), has become the latest attraction to be sunk for scuba divers in Malta. Read more...
Eco-moorings can protect Studland’s seahorses
Conservationists including scuba divers have joined forces with the boating community in a bid to save the underwater environment of Dorset’s Studland Bay. Read more...
Scuba centre fined for schoolboys’ CO poisoning
Cheshire dive-centre Aqualogistics has been fined but its director has avoided a jail sentence, after a health & safety breach led to the carbon monoxide poisoning of schoolboys during a scuba diving class at Manchester Grammar School. Read more...
Search for diver missing off Scillies
A recovery operation is under way for a scuba diver who failed to resurface from a boat-dive off the Isles of Scilly. The man was reported missing at around 9am on Wednesday (28 July). Read more...
Divers find dinner bell on deep wreck
Ten days after finding the bell of WW2 wreck the Frankfurt, the Baltictech dive group says it has come across another bell on a different Operation Hannibal wreck, the Goya, which lies at a depth of 76m. Read more...
Sinking feeling on the Mary Rose
A new immersive Mary Rose visitor experience opens this week at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. Read more...
Mystery rays under investigation
Two species of the shark-like rays known as wedgefish have been tagged by Marine Megafauna Foundation (MMF) scientists for a first-of-its-kind study in Mozambique. Read more...
Diver’s $100k find runs in the family
A US scuba diver has discovered a rare gold coin in 9m of water – the first to be recovered from Florida's 17th-century Spanish galleon shipwreck Nuestra de Atocha for 20 years. Read more...
Andrea Doria’s foghorn sounds again
The foghorn from the famed Andrea Doria shipwreck has been raised and restored, and will be sounded this afternoon (Sunday, July 25) in a livestreamed anniversary event at the New Jersey Maritime Museum in Beach Haven. Read more...
Five freedivers, 12 world records
No fewer than 12 world freediving records have been broken during the nine-day Vertical Blue international competition at Deans Blue Hole in the Bahamas, with some marks switching back and forth between competitors during the event. Read more...
Motivating Med divers for lionfish war
Targeted removals can suppress the growing number of invasive lionfish around protected Mediterranean coastlines, according to a new study – but only by combining culls by scuba divers with long-term monitoring. Read more...
Dive-boat sinks in Florida
Investigators have been trying to determine why a packed dive-boat sank suddenly off Florida’s Atlantic coast. Crews from nearby diving and fishing vessels rushed to the scene to pick up the Safari Diver’s 13 occupants when it went down on the afternoon of 18 July. Read more...
Diving mayor had heart condition
Then-mayor of Cambridge Nigel Gawthrope, who died on a scuba diving holiday in South Africa as reported on Divernet in January 2019, had an undiagnosed heart condition. Read more...
Ancient shipwreck found off Egypt
A rare ancient galley has been discovered by underwater archaeologist Franck Goddio and his dive-team in the sunken city of Thonis-Heracleion, off Egypt’s Mediterranean coast. Read more...
‘70% of divers contact the reef’
It might come as a surprise to scuba divers to hear that 70% “contact the reef” while under water and 36% are unaware of doing so, but so says UK charity Reef-World Foundation, which co-ordinates the UN Environment Programme’s Green Fins programme. Read more...
Divers help ID leopard shark hotspot
The existence of a key global hotspot and potential breeding area for leopard sharks has been revealed in Mozambique by the Marine Megafauna Foundation (MMF). Its new study was produced in collaboration with Swansea University and volunteer body All Out Africa. Read more...
FREE August DIVER out now!
TO ENSURE prompt delivery of DIVER Magazine during the continuing period of coronavirus disruption a special FREE digital version of the AUGUST issue has been produced to replace the normal paper copy. Read more...
Just shark fins? Follow the meat
It isn’t only demand for fins that poses an overwhelming threat to sharks and rays, according to a deep-diving new report from international conservation body WWF. Read more...
Built for speed, not thermal comfort
Most fish are cold-blooded, but some 35 species have evolved the ability to warm their muscles as well as their eyes and brain. Read more...
Divers leave ‘dirty wreck’ virtually clean
Volunteer divers have finally succeeded in clearing ghost-fishing gear from what had long been referred to as the “dirty wreck” of the Epsilon in Cornwall’s Falmouth Bay. Read more...
Baltic divers find Frankfurt bell at 82m
Divers with the technical group Baltictech have located the wreck of the steamship Frankfurt, a vessel involved in one of the world’s biggest maritime evacuations. Read more...
Cash for divers recovering artefacts
New funding is to be provided to save artefacts at risk of being lost unless urgently recovered from protected shipwrecks by divers in England. Read more...
PADI Women’s Dive-in Saturday
“When we introduced PADI Women’s DIve Day at our centre the women divers we had were far and few between, making it difficult to find a buddy,” says Malin Tiger Dahlström, PADI Course Director of Dive Team in Sweden. Read more...
Freedivers beat seals on deep dives
Elite freedivers diving unaided in open sea have brain oxygen levels even lower than seals during their deepest dives, according to new research carried out at the University of St Andrews. Read more...
60m-deep pool for divers in Dubai
The world’s deepest pool for diving opens to the public at the end of July in a part of the world that doesn't do things by halves – the United Arab Emirates. Read more...
Orcas ‘like kids at a party’
Unprecedented drone footage has revealed that individual orcas form close personal affinities with others - and that their pods tend to be run by the younger and female whales. Read more...
Fall-out after barge flattens Mabul corals
Scuba divers and environmental bodies in Malaysia have been counting the cost of a government-contracted barge that has crushed the Paradise 1 coral reef off Mabul island. Read more...
Date set for Endurance expedition
A new search for Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance, the ship that disappeared under ice in the Weddell Sea in Antarctica in November 1915, is to begin next February. Organised and funded by the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust (FMHT), Endurance22 will be led by Dr John Shears with maritime archaeologist Mensun Bound. Read more...
