Ex-Navy diver set to swim Channel – backwards
Former Royal Australian Navy clearance diver Ash Semmens wants to become the first swimmer to cross the English Channel on his back. Rather than employing
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UK photo-pioneer Colin Doeg dies at 96
The British underwater photographer has died after a long and distinguished career, and STEVE WARREN reckons he leaves a legacy that is difficult to over-estimate
Woman dies on return from brief dive off Bali
An Australian female diver has died suddenly after surfacing from a dive at the Manta Point site on Nusa Penida island, off the south-east coast
Thai warships launch Underwater Learning Park
Two Royal Thai Navy patrol boats are about to be sunk to form the basis for an “Underwater Learning Park” for scuba divers. The vessels’
Divers help themselves to champagne on ‘protected’ wreck
Unknown divers appear to have located and visited the protected 58m-deep “Champagne Wreck” discovered by the Polish Baltictech dive group off Sweden in July –
Scuba tops ‘fear-factor’ extreme sports list
Scuba diving heads the list of “extreme sports” that British people would most like to try but don’t – not only because they are risk-averse
‘Mindbending’: Whales dive in-sync 100km apart
Bowhead whales in the Arctic Ocean can synchronise their dives even when they are vast distances apart, researchers have found – leading to the conclusion
Divers find 3,000-year-old fingerprinted figurine
A tiny statuette of a woman found by divers in Italy’s Lake Bolsena has turned out to date back some 3,000 years to the first
Who is Volodymyr Z? Ukrainian diver wanted for sabotage
A Ukrainian diving instructor suspected of involvement in the sabotage of Baltic Sea gas pipelines two years ago is reported to have escaped from Poland
How SW England’s seas altered in 2023
Marine life is changing in the South-west of England, says the influential Marine Biological Association (MBA) in its annual report for 2023, covering one of
PADI tempts members to attend Euro dive-shows
PADI is pushing for further expansion with what it says are exclusive deals for its 6,600 dive-centres and resorts to get directly involved in next
Shark takes girl’s leg on post-dive swim
A US teenage scuba diver has lost her leg following a shark encounter in the Caribbean Sea off Belize. Annabelle Carlson, 15, from Aspen, Colorado,
7,000 shipwreck treasures for sale in Cornwall
Anyone with a love of shipwreck artefacts and just under £2 million to invest might consider the prospect of acquiring Cornwall’s Shipwreck Treasure Museum, which
Mass Coral-Breeding Methods Amid Raft Of Breakthroughs To Protect Reefs
Scientists and engineers have pioneered new techniques to mass produce healthy baby corals, which could help restore reefs damaged by the impacts of climate change.
Anti-parrot cradles a ‘coral game-changer’
Cradles for baby corals designed to frustrate toothy predators such as parrotfish could be deployed as part of a drive to rehabilitate reefs hit by
Still-free Conception captain ordered to pay up
The first compensation payments for expenses incurred in the deaths of 34 people who died when the Californian dive liveaboard Conception caught fire in 2019
Cutting-Edge Drysuits and Stylish Apparel
AVATAR 102 AIRON | SRP: £1,615 The Avatar 102 Airon is a cutting-edge drysuit designed for divers seeking innovation and superior design. It is made
Ghost Ships Of The Great Lakes Part-2
Acclaimed underwater photographer and videographer Becky Kagan Schott continues her tour of some of the most-memorable shipwrecks of the Great Lakes Photographs by Becky Kagan
Soft-Coral Kingdom: Luke Evans’ Adventure Aboard the Red Sea Aggressor IV
Luke Evans has travelled extensively with his Editorial Director Dad Mark Evans, but he had never experienced a liveaboard – until now – and a
Shrimps vs. Prawns: Lawson Wood Unveils the Differences
Lawson Wood answers the question -are shrimps andprawns the same species? Photographs by Lawson Wood I get asked this question lots of times by fellow
Barotrauma and Common Diving Mistakes: Claudio Di Manao’s Insights on Equalisation
Claudio Di Manao concludes the series on equalisation, looking at barotrauma,and common mistakes that divers make Anthropological studies on Homo subaquaticus show that members of
Raja Ampat: From Remote Outpost to Premier Diving Destination in 20 Years
It really is incredible that in just over 20 years, Raja Ampat has gone from a little known, remote outpost of the huge Indonesian archipelago
AI in Photography: Navigating the Challenges of Artificial Intelligence in Creative Arts
Alex Mustard turns his attentions to the thorny issue of AI images Photographs by Alex Mustard They are just two letters, but they have caused
King Of The Neptune’s: Cage Diving With Great White Sharks
After years of patiently waiting for the stars to align, Adrian Stacey was finally on his way to the Neptune Islands in South Australia. His
Chamber Diaries: Key Insights from BDSG & Defence Diving Symposium – DCI Recognition & Safety Updates
It’s that time of year again, conferences and meetings, etc. In October, we attended the meeting of the British Diving Safety Group (BDSG). This was
Ocean Film Festival on its way to UK
The British leg of the annual Ocean Film Festival World Tour kicks off in Leeds on 12 September and will make its way around the
Women dive together on PADI’s landmark day
Training agency PADI has been rounding up some of the activities that marked its 10th annual Women’s Dive Day on and around 20 July. “There
Cocaine sharks are a reality off Rio
In the 2023 “shot-in-a-week” movie Cocaine Shark, an explosion releases an army of mutant, bloodthirsty sharks injected with a potent stimulant from a laboratory onto
Divers reveal spectacular Roman floor at Baia
The submerged ancient Roman spa town of Baia in Sicily is a UNESCO Heritage Site described as the world’s biggest underwater archaeological park for divers
Danes arrest Paul Watson at Japan’s request
Danish federal police have detained prominent anti-whaling campaigner Captain Paul Watson on the basis of an international arrest order from Japan. Watson runs the Captain
DAN puts Malta incidents into perspective
Some 95% of scuba divers in Malta come from overseas, and almost 70% of the islands’ 62 dive-centres are under non-Maltese ownership and operated by
Green Fins fights back with coral-bleaching toolkit
UK charity the Reef-World Foundation, international co-ordinator of the UN Environment Programme’s Green Fins initiative, has launched a “coral-bleaching toolkit” to combat the effects of