DIVING NEWS

Whirlwind hits trouble in Red Sea

Red Sea liveaboard Whirlwind, part of the Tornado Marine Fleet, was damaged when it struck a pinnacle on Thursday, 15 August, and divers aboard later had to be evacuated. Read more...

Divers return to famed Arctic wrecks

Park Canada has resumed what it says is the biggest and most complex underwater archaeological undertaking in Canadian history - the exploration of Sir John Franklin’s 19th-century British expeditionary ships HMS Erebus and HMS Terror. Read more...

Jazz singer missing after cave-dive

A German jazz singer has disappeared following a scuba dive in what is said to be the South Pacific’s largest underwater cave. Read more...

Freshwater fish that live to 100+

The longest-living marine vertebrates, the Greenland sharks, can survive for many centuries, but until now freshwater fish have not been known to live much beyond the age of 70. Read more...

Meet the glow-in-the-dark shark

It was discovered nine years ago in the USA’s Gulf of Mexico, one of the only two “pocket sharks” ever found, but now the “glow-in-the-dark” shark has been officially classified as a new species, Mollisquama mississippiensis. Read more...

Intact Renaissance shipwreck found in Baltic

An intact 500-year-old shipwreck has been found in what is described as a “astonishing” state of preservation, at a depth of 120m in the Baltic Sea. Read more...

Wrecks authority Ron Young dies

Scuba diver and author George Ronald “Ron” Young, well-known among UK wreck-divers, especially in the North-east of England, has died at the age of 82. Read more...

Another Roman wreck found in Majorca

The wreck of a Roman merchant vessel has been found close to shore on Palma’s Ca’n Pastilla beach, on the Mediterranean island of Majorca. Read more...

Stones mean prizes at Chesil

Picking out particular stones under water at pebbly Chesil Cove might be seen as a challenge, but plenty of scuba divers and snorkellers are expected to be up for it when the second annual O’Three Treasure Hunt takes place at the Dorset dive-site over the weekend of 10/11 August. Read more...

Divers land on the Eagle

A dive-team has located and explored the WW2 wreck of USS Eagle PE-56, the US Navy's biggest single combat loss off New England and its last Atlantic-coast warship casualty. Read more...

Freediving world champ dies in fall

One of the world’s leading freedivers, Sayuri Kinoshita of Japan, has died from injuries sustained after falling from her flat. She was 30. Read more...

Seals can sing like humans

Grey seals have the ability to copy human songs and speech, using the same physical mechanisms as people to produce the sounds, according to a new scientific study in Scotland. The researchers believe that the findings could prove helpful in the study of speech disorders. Read more...

New, improved Dive Shows website is here

Divers planning a visit to the annual NEC Birmingham Dive Show can now a enjoy a smarter way of getting up-to-date news about their favourite UK scuba event, with the launch of the new Dive Shows website. Read more...

Freediving in work-break ‘very unwise’

Over-exertion has been suggested as an explanation for the death of a teenage British watersports instructor who went freediving during a work-break. Read more...

Outstanding wreck-hunter Bob Marx dies

US shipwreck-hunter Robert F Marx, better-known as Bob Marx, has died at the age of 85. Read more...

Divers urged to check hearts

Scuba divers, particularly the more experienced, are being encouraged by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution to make heart health a top priority. Read more...

Injured manta seeks diver’s help

A female manta ray has been filmed approaching a diving instructor for help and allowing him to remove hooks embedded near her eye. The unique interaction occurred last month in Coral Bay on Ningaloo Reef in Western Australia. Read more...

Fish eats shark – on video

A “once-in-a-lifetime event” was observed by a US scientific research team when a deep-sea fish was captured on video swallowing a live shark whole. Read more...

Iconic Scapa Flow wrecks go cheap

They might have gone up for sale on eBay with a price tag of £810,000, but the four German WW1 warship wrecks in Orkney’s Scapa Flow have changed hands for little more than a tenth of the asking price. Read more...

Deptherapy drops PADI for RAID

Deptherapy is now offering RAID instead of PADI diving qualifications to its programme-members. Read more...

Women’s chain-dive in Caymans

If you’re a qualified female diver and happen to be in the Cayman Islands this month, you could be in the right place at the right time to join in a “world-record” attempt. Read more...

Faith wreck becomes Scheduled Monument

The wreck of one of only five early iron steamships known within English waters has been scheduled under the Ancient Monuments & Archaeological Areas Act. Read more...

‘Fish-bombing’ blamed as three divers die

Illegal blast-fishing is suspected of having caused the deaths of three scuba divers in Malaysian Borneo yesterday (5 July). Read more...

Divers backdate ancient mini-islands

Crannogs are mysterious artificial islands found in Scottish and Irish lakes and estuaries and now, thanks to research inspired by a scuba diver’s discovery, they have been dated as far back as 5700 years ago - three millennia earlier than previously thought. Read more...

Diver died on deep air-dive

An inquest into a scuba diver’s death at the National Diving & Activity Centre (NDAC) in Gloucestershire has heard that it occurred on what was described as a “very risky” 60m dive on air, and a rapid controlled ascent from 35m. Read more...

Bid under way to save ‘Essex Mary Rose’

A campaign is launched today (3 July) to raise funds to save the wreck of the London, the historically significant ship that sank in the Thames estuary in 1665. Read more...

£8000 dive-trip up for grabs at DIVE 2019

Every year a trip to the NEC Birmingham to enjoy a day out at the Dive Show brings with it the chance of a much bigger dive trip further down the line. Read more...

Search under way for diver in Devon

A male scuba diver has gone missing in Plymouth Sound in Devon. A member of his dive-club called the emergency services at 7.30 yesterday evening (1 July), reporting that he had got into difficulties while diving off Plymouth Hoe with a small group. Read more...