In the same week an Egyptian liveaboard sank with the loss of one crew member, a tourist day-boat has been engulfed by flames near Hurghada. The boat, Marina Dolphin, was carrying 30 passengers at the ...

Rescuers are racing to reach seven villagers trapped inside a flooded cave in central Laos, with specialist cave divers from the 2018 Tham Luang rescue now supporting the increasingly difficult ...

Italian investigators have seized electronic devices and personal equipment belonging to the five divers who died inside the Vaavu Atoll cave, referred to in local reports as Devana Kandu, or Dhekunu ...

Dive computer specialist Shearwater Research has announced the launch of the Perdix 3, which the company describes as ‘its toughest and most capable full‑size dive computer to date’. The new computer ...

The scuba diving world has been rocked by the deaths of five Italian scuba divers in a cave in Vaavu Atoll, Maldives. According to the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the divers died ‘while ...

The dive instructor who was conducting Dylan Harrison’s training programme when the 12-year-old disappeared and drowned has been arrested and charged in connection with her death. William Armstrong, a ...

A diver works to remove silt from the remains of the newly discovered cog shipwreck (Photo: Viking Ship Museum) Maritime archaeologists from Denmark’s Viking Ship Museum have revealed the discovery of ...

French marine archaeologists have discovered a submerged stone wall more than 7,000 years old on the seabed off western France, in what is thought to be the largest prehistoric underwater construction ...

The British Sub-Aqua Club (BSAC) Annual Diving Incident Report for 2024 has been published, with a total of 239 incidents and 12 fatalities recorded throughout the UK. A further 92 incidents were ...

One boat has been sunk and a second damaged by a pod of orcas (killer whales) off the coast of Portugal. The sunken vessel, named Oceanview, which belongs to the Nautic Squad, a sailing based in ...

Scientists in Australia and Japan have potentially discovered a new way of controlling outbreaks of crown-of-thorns starfish (CoTS) on coral reefs, using a synthetic version of their own ‘scent’.

The golden nurse shark was caught during a sport fishing competition in Costa Rica (Photo: ParisminaDomusDei/Facebook) A new study has documented the first recorded case of the rare pigmentation ...