DIVING NEWS
UK’s 2018 freediving champions named
Competitive freediving newcomer David Mellor has been named alongside the more experienced Georgina Miller as 2018 UK national champions. Read more...
PADI and DAN offer pro cover in Europe
Professional liability insurance is being offered at preferential rates to PADI instructors, dive guides and dive masters in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, following a tie-up between PADI EMEA and safety organisation Divers Alert Network (DAN) Europe. Read more...
Join ghost-net divers at Winter Warmer
An invitation has gone out to scuba divers who might be considering getting involved in underwater operations to remove ghost-fishing gear in the UK but are unsure how to set about it. Read more...
Otter’s John Womack Sr passes away
Leading light of the UK dive industry John Womack Senior of long-established manufacturer Otter Drysuits has died, following a long illness. Read more...
Rare shark nursery found in Atlantic
Marine scientists investigating Ireland’s deepwater coral-reef systems 200 miles out in the Atlantic have discovered a rare shark nursery. Read more...
‘Killer robot’ turns life-giver
RangerBot, the experimental underwater drone that has been patrolling Great Barrier Reef corals and delivering lethal injections to predatory crown-of-thorns starfish, has been re-purposed Read more...
Sea Invaders highlights shark plight
An animation based on the old arcade game Space Invaders has been released by Bite-Back Shark & Marine Conservation, replacing aliens with sharks Read more...
PADI valour awards for Thailand cave-rescuers
British cave-divers Rick Stanton, John Volanthen, Jason Mallinson and Chris Jewell and Australian diver Dr Richard Harris are to be the first recipients of a specially created PADI "Medal of Valor" Read more...
Pre-natal checks for whale sharks in Galapagos
In a bid to unlock the long-maintained mysteries of whale-shark reproduction, researchers in the Galapagos have carried out ultrasound scans Read more...
Man dies on plane-crash dive
An Indonesian volunteer diver who died during search and rescue operations at the Lion Air JT610 plane-crash site off Jakarta is believed to have been a victim of decompression illness. Read more...
Instructor cleared over Malta diver death
A diving instructor in Malta who had been charged with causing the death of a Polish man while leading a group of experienced scuba divers Read more...
Ghost-gear divers to avoid red tape
Bureaucracy currently hampering volunteer scuba divers who wish to help clean up marine litter, particularly ghost-fishing gear, looks set to be cut Read more...
Palau sets another example on coral protection
The Pacific diving destination of Palau will become the world’s first nation to protect its coral reefs from damaging chemical sunscreens Read more...
Thorness Bay wreck trail ready for divers
A dive trail based on a protected wreck-site in the Solent has been opened for visiting divers. Read more...
Trainee divers ‘stoked’ by £10,000 holiday win
New scuba-diver Tim Davis from Chester got a big surprise at DIVE 2018, the Dive Show at the NEC, Birmingham, when he was told that he had won a £10,000 diving holiday for two in Papua New Guinea. Read more...
DIVER Awards winners celebrate at NEC
This year’s DIVER Awards winners were revealed last weekend (27 October) at the DIVE 2018 show at the National Exhibition Centre, where they picked up their handsome blue trophies and certificates Read more...
Dive Worldwide and Regaldive under one umbrella
Two of the UK’s best-known dive-tour operators are now stable-mates, forming what the parent company believes to be “the largest dive offering in the UK”. Read more...
WW1 Channel wreck resource now available
Sure to be of benefit to UK wreck-divers is a new interactive-map viewer called Forgotten Wrecks of the First World War. Read more...
Don’t miss the Big Weekend!
The UK’s biggest meet-up for divers, the annual Birmingham Dive Show at the NEC, is happening this weekend (27/28 October). Read more...
Birmingham debut for dive gear
An impressive overview of recently-launched dive gear will be on offer to visitors at this weekend’s Birmingham Dive Show. Read more...
Headless chicken monster goes south
A deep-sea swimming sea cucumber known as a “headless chicken monster” has been filmed for the first time in Southern Ocean waters off east Antarctica. Read more...
Last chance to book reduced-price DIVE 2018 tickets
The deadline for booking reduced-price tickets for the forthcoming Birmingham Dive Show (DIVE 2018) is fast approaching. Read more...
World’s oldest intact shipwreck discovered
An Anglo-Bulgarian scientific team that has spent three years mapping the Black Sea bed has confirmed that an ancient Greek trading vessel among their finds is the oldest intact shipwreck ever discovered. Read more...
Window into our blue planet
Visitors to this year’s Birmingham Dive Show will enjoy a unique insight into the highs and lows of our ocean world. Read more...
The Underwater Centre closes its doors
The Underwater Centre commercial-diver training facility at Fort William in Scotland has ceased trading and is being placed into administration. Read more...
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...
