NEWS
Flying fish leaps out at NHM
It wasn’t a classic year for underwater shots among the winners of this year’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition Read more...
From the Maldives to Mesoamerica
Aspirational diving opportunities across a range of holiday destinations near and far will be among topics covered in the Ocean Theatre at the NEC Birmingham Dive Show on 27/28 October. Read more...
Six-year-old can sue dive-operator
Six-year-old Vincent Warner has won the right to sue Scapa Flow Charters over his father’s death on a diving trip in August 2012. Read more...
Botched scuttling too costly to correct
When you pay the equivalent of around £5.5 million to prepare and sink a ship intended as a world-class diving attraction, you might expect it to land on the seabed Read more...
Goodwin Sands SOS seeks fighting funds
“The Goodwin Sands should be a preserved and protected Marine Conservation Zone (MCZ) and remain the undisturbed graveyard of ships, aircraft and their crews. Read more...
DIVER article prompts wreck-find handover
A recent feature about a shipwreck in DIVER magazine has resulted in the handover of a mid-19th century navigational instrument to a descendant of its original owner. Read more...
Police dive-team given ultimatum after death
A report into the death of a novice US police-diver on a training session has listed a catalogue of procedural errors on the part of the dive-team Read more...
Top cameramen take Dive Show stage
Top underwater cameramen Doug Allan and Mark Sharman will be among an exceptional line-up of diving image-makers Read more...
Divers spot one-of-a-kind shellfish
Scuba divers from Natural Resources Wales (NRW) have found the only known living example in Wales of a fan shell called Atrina fragilis. Read more...
Call for more volunteers as Invincible attracts more cash
A £360,000 Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) grant has been awarded to the organisations behind the underwater archaeological excavation Read more...
HMS London relics go on display
An exhibition of around 100 artefacts recovered by scuba-divers from HMS London, the 17th-century warship wreck in the Thames Estuary Read more...
Too young to hold duration record
Despite staying beneath the surface of Red Sea for 55 hours, the claim of 14-year-old Egyptian Reem Ashraf Fawzy to have carried out Read more...
Death of a star
The first documented marine-animal extinction in Australia, and one of very few ever recorded around the world, has just been declared. Read more...
Egyptian schoolgirl claims diving duration record
The world record for the longest open saltwater scuba dive by a female diver has been claimed by a 14-year-old Egyptian girl Read more...
Six divers die in Malaysia
Six divers from two Fire & Rescue Department stations in Selangor, Malaysia have drowned in a pool above a disused mine Read more...
From solo diving to CCRs
Solo diving, sidemounts, shutdown procedures, GUE configurations - and the Inspiration, Sentinel, Redbare, SF2 and JJ CCRs Read more...
More artefacts recovered from HMS Erebus
Underwater archaeologists have recovered nine more artefacts during their latest polar research trip to the wreck of HMS Erebus. Read more...
Sea Shepherd offers to pay off cetacean hunters
Marine-conservation activist group Sea Shepherd UK has offered the Faroe Islands government a cash incentive of a million euros Read more...
British diver dies in Malta
A British diver has died on the Maltese island of Gozo, having collapsed soon after surfacing from a dive. Read more...
Explore and enjoy!
In-hall presentations, mini-theatres, two pools and zones dedicated to UK diving, overseas travel, tek diving, underwater photography and skills development. Read more...
How PCBs are killing the killer whales
For scuba divers, the sighting of an orca is among the most prized of experiences, but the chances of encounters in certain parts of the world are becoming increasingly remote. Read more...
Photo contest – for females only
The first-ever female-only underwater photography competition - that’s the claim of the “world’s largest female dive community” Girls That Scuba for its latest Read more...
How secret ‘snatch rescue’ saved four cave victims
Four non-diving rescue workers were themselves rescued from the Tham Luang caves in Thailand by British divers Rick Stanton and John Volanthen Read more...
deCaires Taylor figures destroyed in Maldives
Thirty statues that formed part of the Coralarium, the recent installation in the Maldives by British underwater sculptor Jason deCaires Taylor, have been destroyed Read more...
400-year-old shipwreck found off Portugal
Archaeological divers have discovered a centuries-old shipwreck at a depth of 12m near the Portuguese resort town of Cascais. Read more...
Divers rescue crewman trapped in ferry
Two days after the ferry Nyerere capsized in Tanzania’s Lake Victoria, killing at least 218 people, navy divers succeeded in rescuing a man Read more...
‘Cows as fast as wolves’
To learn that basking sharks breach at all may come as a surprise to many divers, but even more unexpected are the speeds these giants can attain to clear the water. Read more...
Mellow octopuses on ecstasy reveal human link
Octopuses are well known for being smart but are also famously anti-social - they tend to keep themselves to themselves and are generally hostile Read more...
Christmas starts early at Vobster
Dive in red and the emergency services stand to benefit, as Vobster Quay’s festive fund-raising Santa Dive returns Read more...
