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Training agency PADI has partnered with action camera supremos GoPro to create the GoPro PADI Distinctive Specialty course, a new GoPro-specific specialty certification for certified
The Plymouth-based Marine Biological Association (MBA) was established in Victorian times, making it one of the world’s longest-running societies dedicated to promoting the oceans and
Researchers in Cornwall have discovered what they say is one of the biggest fields of maerl ever located in UK waters – and that the
Trolling – not online sniping, but the fishing method – is said to be endangering scuba divers in Malta, and now a group of them
The British Sub-Aqua Club (BSAC) has partnered with conservation charity Seawilding to introduce the Underwater Surveyor course, designed to make surveying fun and accessible. Surveying
A scuba diver exploring a remote part of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has reunited a snorkeller with a mobile phone he had lost 10 days
The Kraken Rum has unleashed a new limited edition that tells the tale of a narrow escape from the clutches of the Beast, a feat
UK-based marine-conservation charity the Reef-World Foundation, which administers the UN’s Green Fins diving eco-awareness programme, is celebrating a £335,000 windfall after being awarded advertising space
A new species of side-gilled sea slug has been discovered in Britain – and named Pleurobranchaea britannica. The nudibranch was collected by scientists on the
An elderly diver in South Australia has revealed how an anchor from a famous shipwreck was turned into a well-known landmark exactly 60 years ago.
Five Californian scientific bodies have come together in a bid to reverse the fading fortunes of one of the world’s biggest starfish, the sunflower star.
Baleen whales, which include blues, greys and humpbacks, communicate over long distances under water using their array of songs – but only now have researchers
Training agency PADI and wellness confectioner Neuro are continuing their tie-up with the launch of a whale-inspired limited-edition container designed to fund ocean conservation. During
A network of coral nurseries and restoration sites around the Dutch Caribbean islands of Bonaire and Klein Bonaire is being expanded by the Reef Renewal
A keen diver with a lifelong lover of the sea has brought a unique taste of the oceans into his rum and vodka creations which
Annual Ocean Lovers Festival Returns to Bondi to Celebrate Ocean Treasure Can seaweed save humanity? What’s next if no shark nets? Are whales talking to
The Isle of Man Post Office is releasing a set of six stamps featuring a range of sea fish found at the diving destination. The Marine
Aggressor Adventures has announced a new partnership with Mares for 2024, which will see Mares become the exclusive supplier and brand of diving equipment for Aggressor’s executive
When a lone common dolphin was reported circling in a shallow inlet at Place, near Portscatho in Cornwall on the morning of Friday, 16 February,
Tobago’s dive-sites might have been spared by the serious oil-spill that has affected other parts of the island’s south coast, as reported here on 12
PADI Worldwide has announced the latest set of international AmbassaDivers to join its team. “In each of their own unique ways, our new AmbassaDivers stand
Scuba divers in southern Italy have recovered a worked stone block, thought to be the base of a marble statue belonging to an ancient Roman
Tobago has contained the oil-spillage from a mystery ship that capsized close to the south-west coast – and the dive-sites in the west and north-east
Rebreather diver Luiz Rocha, who reaches depths as great as 150m to study little-known coral reefs, has been elected to the 2024 class of the
The Seychelles outer islands Alphonse and St François have been designated Important Shark & Ray Areas (ISRAs) by the International Union for Conservation of Nature
UPDATE from Diveworld: ‘The van has been found! Huge thank you to John Clarke and Lynn Hanson for spotting it and letting us know where
Large numbers of killer whales, including babies, are reported to have become trapped in thick drift-ice off the town Rausu on the Japanese island of
Plans for the defunct National Diving & Activity Centre (NDAC) inland diving facility to get a new lease of life at a location near Neath
The diving industry is in mourning with the news that author, photographer and publisher Paul Humann passed away today (5 February) at age 86, peacefully
Alphamarine Photography are running an underwater photography workshop event at Red Sea Diving Safari’s Marsa Shagra Village in March 2024. The event includes eight classroom
National Geographic Pristine Seas has returned to Palau in the western Pacific Ocean 10 years after its last major trip to conduct surveys of its
British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) Marine Mammal Medics were hard at work yesterday (Wednesday 31 January), responding to a mass stranding of six common
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