DIVING NEWS
Sunday Brunch at 6 metres
Scuba divers Shane Breadmore and Leo Coucher took a break from their underwater cleaning duties in the 250,000-litre Sea Life Great Yarmouth tank alongside a green turtle called Noah recently. Their 6m-deep “Sunday Brunch” was part of a bid to raise funds and awareness for cancer research. Read more...
Divers look to Maldives and Canaries
Welcome news for travelling scuba divers running out of officially approved warmwater destination options as the UK winter approaches is that the Maldives and Spain’s Canary Islands are back among the travel corridors. Read more...
Basque divers explore British shipwreck
The wreck of a 19th-century British cargo ship that had been carrying bags of cement for an imperial infrastructure project has been investigated in the Bay of Biscay by a joint French-Spanish archaeological team. Read more...
Mary Rose diver to sell rare Omega
A scuba diver is hoping that the rare Army-issue watch he wore while working on the Mary Rose nearly 40 years ago can now help his children – and fund his dream dive-trip to the Great Barrier Reef. Read more...
Scubapro Aladin A2 Computer
With six modes – Air, Nitrox, Trimix, Rebreather, Gauge and Freediving – the watch-styled Aladin A2 is designed to cover the gamut of diving activities. Read more...
US fighter raised from Black Sea
A Bell P-39 Airacobra aircraft has been raised from the Black Sea in Crimea by a dive-team, the culmination of a joint expedition carried out by the Russian Geographical Society and the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation. Read more...
Preparing Atlantis
Ultimate Diving says it has been working closely with exclusive partner Atlantis Resorts to ensure that stays there, once the Philippines is accessible again, will be Covid-secure for divers. Read more...
Missing diver came up with shell
A scuba diver was reported missing off the Dorset coast on Friday (25 September) and was then located – with, as Swanage Coastguard put it, “a surprise”. Read more...
Saltwater croc bites GBR snorkeller
A snorkeller has survived an encounter with a saltwater crocodile on the Great Barrier Reef. The 33-year-old Australian man suffered head and neck injuries while exploring the waters of Anchor Bay 50m off Lizard Island, Queensland on the afternoon of 23 September. Read more...
Ocean Art open for entries
Entries are now being accepted for the Ocean Art Underwater Photo Competition 2020, organised by the US-based Underwater Photography Guide (UPG) website. Read more...
Cannon ‘twinkled like gold’ on lost wreck
Archaeologists have discovered a missing 17th-century warship wreck off Denmark said to be one of the first ships ever to be constructed from drawings. Read more...
Researchers nail down smooth hammerheads
New migration data produced by tagging hammerhead sharks in the Atlantic should help scientists to protect at least one of the 10 hammerhead species at risk of extinction. Read more...
Diver airlifted from Kent dive-site
A scuba diver had to be airlifted to a London hospital with suspected decompression illness after making an emergency ascent at St Andrew’s Lakes in Halling, Kent on Sunday, 20 September. Read more...
Sea-life protector makes her mark
UK scuba diver Emily Cunningham has been selected by the North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE) as one of its “30 global leaders under the age of 30” for 2020. Read more...
Cromhall dive-site back open
Inland dive-site Cromhall Quarry in south Gloucestershire, which appeared to have closed for good in May, has reopened to scuba divers under new management. Read more...
First Mayan slave wreck ID’d off Mexico
The first wreck of a ship trading in Mayan slaves ever to be found has been identified in Mexican waters by researchers from the country’s National Institute of Anthropology & History (INAH). Read more...
French freediver edges bi-fins battle
French freediver Arnaud Jerald has claimed a world record of 112m in the Constant Weight with Bi-Fins discipline – continuing a rivalry with the Russian Alexey Molchanov who had set a 111m record just days before. Read more...
FREE October DIVER magazine out now
TO ENSURE prompt delivery of DIVER Magazine during the current period of coronavirus disruption a special FREE digital version of the OCTOBER issue has been produced to replace the normal paper copy. Read more...
Prop death – dive widower files lawsuit
The husband of a woman who died after being caught in a dive-boat’s propellers has brought a legal action for negligence against the charter-boat operator, claiming that a similar incident had occurred the previous day on the vessel’s first outing as a dive-boat. Read more...
Divers find WW2 sub off Phuket
The USS Grenadier, one of 52 US Navy submarines lost during WW2, has been claimed as found by a technical-diving team at a depth of 83m off the coast of Thailand. Read more...
Bailiffs swooped the day after lockdown ended
One of the Bahamas’ longest-established dive-centres has been forced to cease trading as a US $9 million compensation claim for a US diver’s death some 17 years ago has finally been enforced. Read more...
HSE censures MoD over diver death
The Health & Safety Executive has censured the Ministry of Defence for the death of a military diver who ran out of gas while training at the National Diving & Activity Centre inland site two years ago. Read more...
What goes round: diver finds historic wheels
A US scuba diver using an ROV has located two paddle-wheels that have been missing from an historic steamboat wreck for more than 200 years, in Lake Champlain, Vermont. Read more...
Still diving at 100
US media has been excited about 100-year-old Illinois man Bill Lambert claiming a Guinness World Record (GWR) for oldest scuba diver, after he took a lake plunge to celebrate his centenary. Read more...
WW2 cruiser found – right way up
The wreck of long-lost WW2 German light cruiser the Karlsruhe has been discovered off southern Norway 80 years after her sinking, sitting upright at a depth of almost half a kilometre. Read more...
Deportation order for ‘ugly video’ divers
Thailand has sent out a message that it won’t tolerate interference with its marine life, with the announcement that it is deporting the two expatriate divers who recently filmed themselves doing just that Read more...
Nose dives at Wraysbury
A new diver attraction has splash-landed at the Wraysbury inland site west of London - the forward section of a Boeing 737-300 airliner. Read more...
The real Meg – 16m of power
The Meg in the recent film of that name was a prehistoric shark around 23m long, according to the studio, and bigger even than that if you go by the poster. But until now the size of the extinct shark on which the film was based has only ever been estimated. Read more...
Time runs short to sign shark petition
As the UK leaves the European Union, it finally gains the ability to stop trading in shark fins, says Shark Guardian. The conservation campaigners are calling on scuba divers, snorkellers and others concerned about the issue to sign and share its Finspire Change UK petition - before it closes next week. Read more...
