A five-year-old male Hawaiian monk seal has been relocated from Big Island after developing a potentially hazardous attitude towards scuba divers and snorkellers. The seal,
Today, we’re diving into the essential topic of what diving gear you can service and maintain yourself with minimal technical know-how. The extent of what
A deep-sea octopus-squid rarely seen in its natural habitat has been caught on video more than 1,000m deep by scientists from Australia and the UK.
The last week of July (20-28) sees the return of UK conservation charity the Shark Trust’s citizen-science initiative the Great Shark Snapshot, which invites divers
Searches by Coastguard and RNLI teams for a scuba diver missing off the Dorset coast were called off on Sunday (26 May). The joint operation
The 16th-century ship known today as the Osmund Wreck was carrying at least 20 barrels full of osmotic iron lumps or osmunds when it left
The UK Supreme Court has overturned a previous ruling and upheld South Africa’s claim to ownership without payment of £34 million-worth of silver bullion from
An Australian scuba diver caught trying to find what he thought was smuggled cocaine in the hull of a container ship docked in New Zealand
Before PADI Women’s Dive Day began, female diver certifications made up 30% of total annual certifications for the global training agency. Now, a decade later,
The sort of catastrophic implosion that occurred on OceanGate’s Titan submersible last year, when five people died while diving to see the 3.8km deep wreck
Genetic analysis has found that the fatty tissues in the heads of toothed whales used for echolocation evolved from what were once their skull muscles
“Challenger brand” OceanSaver, which says it is on a mission to save marine life from the polluting effects of the 28 billion single-use plastics cleaning
We’re still waiting to learn what Megalodon, the biggest shark ever thought to have existed, actually looked like, but a new fossil discovery in Mexico
Analysis of what has been described as one of the best-preserved and significant ancient vessel discoveries in the Mediterranean has revealed new insights into shipbuilding
If you thought that banning bottom-trawling would be a minimum requirement for a Marine Protected Area (MPA) that is far from the case – to
A US scuba diver has survived being pinned to a riverbed at a depth of 15m by an irate alligator, just at the moment his
Well-preserved timbers from “combat platforms”, gun-carriages and a weapons chest complete with ammunition-making equipment are among highlights of the most recent fieldwork on the Baltic
For a long time one of Malaysia’s best-known scuba-diving attractions, the Layang Layang island resort is reported to have received a warning from the state
Egypt’s prime wreck site, the Gulf of Suez, is full of sunken ships that are still virgin territory. If it wasn’t for the depth, at
Alex Mustard turns his attentions to one of the world’s most-famous shipwrecks – the SS Thistlegorm – and its cargo of military supplies, which offers
The Great Barrier Reef (GBR) has been suffering through its worst-ever heat stress, with more than 80% of the reefs enduring dangerous levels of heating,
Surprising new research has found that fish swim in schools not simply because there is less chance of being picked out by a hungry predator,
Lawson Wood extols the virtues of Inverary Pier, which is located on the western side of Loch Fyne in Scotland. Photographs by Lawson Wood and
A humpback whale has been freed from entanglement in Alaska after being “hog-tied” by what was thought to be fishing-line for at least five days.
A £2 million funding programme by energy company Scottish & Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN), described as the biggest-ever single financial contribution to marine enhancement in
Rottnest is a known ship graveyard in the Indian Ocean off Western Australia, with at least 47 historically significant ships having been scuttled there over
Diving equipment manufacturer Aqualung is selling its US Divers snorkelling brand to California-based company Aqua Master Sporting Technology. The transaction is part of the strategy
Two Saudi Arabian dive-centres are said to have become the state’s first PADI “adaptive service facilities”, promising full accessibility for guests with disabilities and special
NHS Grampian, one of Scotland’s 14 regional health boards, has withdrawn funding from the hyperbaric chamber at diving hotspot Oban in Argyll, which for more
The Kerpe Underwater Archaeopark Project, Türkiye’s first attempt to create a submerged “museum” for divers complete with artefacts dating back 2,400 years, is reported to
The German company that produces the ENOS Beacon diver rescue system has donated all 3,000 euros in prize money won by its product in a
Blue whale experts at Australia’s Flinders University say they have undertaken a major stock-take of the number, distribution and genetic characteristics of populations around the
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