DIVING NEWS
Inquest verdicts on three diver deaths
Inquests into the deaths in the British Isles of three scuba divers, two British and one Canadian, took place yesterday (13 February). Read more...
Petrel scores again – with aircraft-carrier
The wreck of one of the most significant aircraft-carriers of WW2 has been located off the Solomon Islands by the expedition team aboard Petrel, the US wreck-research vessel operated in the name of the late Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft. Read more...
London Diving Chamber to close
The London Diving Chamber, which has treated many scuba divers for decompression illness in its 15 years of existence, is to close its doors at the end of March. Read more...
Prize computer gets Tenerife thumbs-up
Divernet Xtra competition winner Simon East has sent us this picture of him diving in Tenerife with his new Aqua Lung i770R dive computer worth £620. Read more...
Palau’s Jellyfish Lake reopens
Jellyfish Lake, a long-established attraction for divers visiting Palau in Micronesia, has been reopened following a two-year closure to allow its depleted population to recover. Read more...
Devil rays steal the show
The Best of Show image in the prestigious 2018 Ocean Art underwater photo competition has been judged to be “Devil Ray Ballet”by British photographer Duncan Murrell. Read more...
Israeli divers on river mission in Hungary
A team of Israeli scuba divers is mounting an operation on the Danube in Budapest from today (15 January) – their task to retrieve the bones of some of tens of thousands of Hungarian Holocaust victims who were shot and thrown into the river in 1944. Read more...
Australian diver awaits ID on wreck find
Scuba diver Marc Payne has discovered the wreck of what he believes to be an immigrant ship built more than 160 years ago, off Albany at the southern tip of Western Australia. Read more...
Mayor of Cambridge dies after dive
A British scuba diver who died following a heart attack on Friday, 11 January, at Umkomaas in South Africa has been identified as Nigel Gawthrope, the Mayor of Cambridge. Read more...
Underwater Centre rescuer outbid
A £3 million bid by a former student of the Underwater Centre in Fort William to keep the commercial-diver training operation going appears to have been overturned by a rival offer. Read more...
It’s NEC Hall 1 again for DIVE 2019
THE MOVE INTO Hall 1 at the NEC for last year’s Dive Show proved popular with both exhibitors and the 15,000-plus visitors who turned up over two days for the premiere event in the UK diving calendar. Read more...
Virtual tour of Rooswijk released
Organisations that have been working to excavate the 18th-century wreck of the Rooswijk on Kent’s Goodwin Sands for the past two years have produced a 3D virtual tour of the site, designed to convey the diving experience and give the public a vivid picture of what they have uncovered. Read more...
Currents parted diver from reg
A Korean scuba diver has died in the Philippines after strong currents were said to have torn his regulator second-stage from his mouth. Read more...
Young diver lost in Hawaii named
The 13-year-old who died in a scuba-diving incident in Hawaii on 5 January has been identified as Temuulin Tsogt, a Mongolian boy on holiday in the Pacific islands with his father, mother and younger sister. Read more...
13-year-old dies on Hawaii dive
A 13-year-old boy on holiday with his family in Hawaii has died while scuba diving about a mile off Maunalua Bay. Read more...
RNLI know their ropes
Mersey Divers' tug-of-war team has taken on the RNLI New Brighton team in a bid to exact revenge for their rapid defeat in the inaugural encounter last year. Read more...
Wildlife Trusts offer scope for hope
The Wildlife Trusts has carried out its first-ever UK marine review for 2018, to provide some positive news as the year draws to a close. Read more...
Diver dies in South Africa
A diver lost his life after getting into difficulties during a boat-dive in South Africa on 27 December. The 65-year-old man, on holiday with his family from Krugersdorp in the north of the country, had been diving from a charter-boat off Shelley Beach, on the south coast of KwaZulu-Natal. Read more...
Seven divers named in New Year’s honours
John Volanthen and Rick Stanton, the cave-divers who located the Wild Boars youth football team and their coach during the Tham Luang cave-rescue in Thailand last summer, and were instrumental in organising and carrying out their rescue, have both been awarded the George Medal in the New Year Honours list. Read more...
Low-vis waters make fish jumpy
Fish don’t appreciate low-visibility conditions any more than scuba divers do, it seems. According to scientists in Australia, they become anxious and more cautious when sediment degrades water quality - and the result can be stunted growth and poor health. Read more...
Coral-spawn tracked on GBR
The convoluted movements of vast slicks of coral larvae that drift at the surface following a mass spawning event have been tracked by Australian marine agencies. Read more...
Father and son die in Mexico incident
An American doctor and his son have both died in a boat-diving incident off Baja California in Mexico. Read more...
Season’s greetings!
Season's greetings to all our Divernet readers! Read more...
Family raise cash to repatriate instructor
A globe-trotting scuba diving instructor who died in a car crash soon after landing his dream job in Australia has left his family facing the problem of paying for his body to be returned to the UK. Read more...
Sharks swim and hunt – inside their mothers
It has long been known that some unborn sharks eat not only surplus eggs inside their mother’s womb but even their embryonic siblings. Now it seems that these pups can also swim between uteruses to maximise their feeding opportunities. Read more...
Shark kills diver in Mexico
A Mexican scuba diver has died in the Gulf of California as the result of a shark bite. Read more...
Why “marine protection” means little in Europe
Nearly 60% of European Union marine protected areas (MPAs) are not only failing to protect threatened biodiversity but are allowing more industrial fishing than in unprotected areas, according to shock research led by Newfoundland’s Dalhousie University. Read more...
Unfamiliar life found on deep Australian reefs
More than 100 previously unknown species of corals, lobsters and molluscs have been discovered on deep seamounts off southern Tasmania. Read more...
Third inquest but disputed death remains a mystery
The mysterious death nearly four years ago of a Thai scuba diver in New Zealand has been re-examined by a third inquest in light of new evidence - including claims that a crew member on her dive-boat expressed the hope that her body would never be found Read more...
