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Ancient wrecks found in Lebanon and Croatia

A Lebanese dive-team is reported to have discovered what appear to be 11 Greek shipwrecks, dating back more than 2300 years. They believe that the vessels were involved in the historic Siege of Tyre, the campaign of Alexander the Great to occupy the island city in 322 BC. Read more...

MCS warns of drinks industry dirty tricks

The drinks industry is trying to dilute the UK Government’s proposed deposit return scheme (DRS) for recycling plastic bottles and cans, according to the Marine Conservation Society. Read more...

Cave-rescuer trapped for 28 hours

British cave-diver Josh Bratchley, who was made an MBE following his role in last year’s Tham Luang cave-rescue in Thailand, has himself had to be rescued after being trapped in a US cave for 28 hours. Read more...

PADI & GoPro want your videos

Training agency PADI has teamed up with action-cam manufacturer GoPro to launch an underwater video competition for scuba-divers, freedivers and snorkellers. Read more...

Dive pros offered free eco-course

A free online course is being offered by UK-registered charity the Reef-World Foundation to help diving professionals to conduct environmentally friendlier dives, manage their guests better and prevent them damaging coral reefs. Read more...

Death at NDAC – and verdict in Orkney

A scuba diver died following an incident at the National Dive & Activity Centre inland dive-site near Chepstow in Gloucestershire on Thursday (11 April). Read more...

Trinidad diver survives 16 hours lost at sea

A scuba-diving spearfisherman who went missing from his boat off Trinidad managed to swim back to shore after spending a reported 16 hours in Atlantic waters. Read more...

Kremlin orders whale release

Russia's government is reported to have ordered that nearly 87 beluga whales and 11 killer whales confined in cramped pens should be released - a decision that coincided with a recent visit to their enclosures by US oceanographer and diver Jean-Michel Cousteau. Read more...

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Diver dies in Dominica

A Canadian scuba diver is reported to have died following an underwater incident on the Caribbean island of Dominica. Read more...

Big blue dates

Freediving with blue whales, the world’s largest animal, is reckoned to be a tough act to follow. Amos Nachoum’s Big Animals operation is running trips off San Diego in California this summer, locating the whales using a scout plane, then meeting them from the 12m dive-boat Humboldt. Read more...

Anti-dredge campaigners win hearing

A judicial review into proposed dredging of Goodwin Sands off the Kent coast has been granted and set for 5 June at the High Court in London. Read more...

Divers investigate ‘world’s oldest shipwreck’

Turkish maritime archaeologists have found what they believe is likely to prove to be the world’s oldest shipwreck, lying 50m off the Mediterranean coast west of the city of Antalya. Read more...

‘We saved Willy!’ chants ring hollow

A basking shark has been filmed being pulled up in the net of a French trawler in the Bay of Biscay. Read more...

‘Dead corals don’t make babies’

Damage already caused to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef by global warming has compromised the capacity of its corals to recover, according to new research. Read more...

Divers to access ancient Greek wrecks

Four ancient shipwrecks are set to become Greece’s first “underwater museums”. Read more...

Sharks at home in the forest

Great white sharks were always thought to lurk at the edges of kelp forests in hopes of ambushing emerging seals, rather than venturing their bulk inside the dense vegetation. Read more...

Oldest shipwreck revealed in Dutch North Sea

A salvage team scanning the North Sea for missing containers have stumbled on an early 16th-century shipwreck – the oldest sea-going vessel ever to be found in Dutch waters. Read more...

Beachcomber dive packages

If you’re looking for a diving holiday in Mauritius, Victoria Beachcomber Resort & Spa is set on a white-sand beach on the sheltered west coast between the capital Port Louis and Grand Baie, with all rooms ocean-facing. Read more...

Women’s Dive Day set for 20 July

PADI has announced the date for what it describes as the largest single day of organised diving, the fifth PADI Women’s Dive Day 2019. On Saturday, 20 July, the training agency reckons that its dive-centres and resorts around the world are set to host thousands of divers. Read more...

High-altitude divers find ritual relics

Divers have investigated a South American repository for offerings to the gods – in what they say is the first methodical archaeological excavation of a site in the world’s highest large lake. Read more...

Two fined over treasure-wreck search

Two men are reported to have been convicted of illegally searching for a 19th-century shipwreck off Cyprus, and have been fined 6000 euros each. Read more...

Ice-freediver pushes 5m deeper

New Zealander Ant Williams has freedived to 75m under ice in Norway, bettering his own potentially world record-breaking 70m dive set two days earlier. Read more...

Now that’s an over-under shot!

This photograph, Papuan Sunset by Grant Thomas, has topped the Over-Under category and been named overall winner of the 2019 DEEP Indonesia contest, organised by photo websites Wetpixel and DivePhotoGuide for underwater photographers from around the world. Read more...

‘Legs felt like lead’ says record ice-freediver

Freediver Ant Williams has claimed a Guinness World Record for the deepest dive under ice, in a Norwegian fjord in the Arctic Circle. Read more...

Explorer Ventures expands into Red Sea

The Explorer Ventures liveaboard fleet has added a new vessel, and it’s operating in the Red Sea. The 41m Grand Sea Explorer joined the fleet in January and offers a 7-night itinerary through the Brothers Islands, Daedelus Reef and Elphinstone Reef marine park sites from US $1895pp. Read more...