Two species of sea spider new to science have been described from Canada’s Salish Sea, after researchers collected specimens during…
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Lee
Lee has been in the marketing industry for the last 15 years and now specializes in teaching marketing techniques to people in the scuba diving industry. He is founder of Dive Media Solutions which, in addition to providing complete marketing, media, communications and IT solutions exclusively for the scuba diving industry, also produces The Scuba News. You can connect with Lee via Twitter by following @DiveMedia
Updated October 3, 2026: This article has been expanded with additional first-hand details provided by Craig Kuhl and his wife,…
DEEP’s Vanguard underwater habitat has reached a significant milestone in its development, receiving an Interim Classification Certificate from maritime classification…
Almost 90 years after Amelia Earhart disappeared over the Pacific Ocean, an expedition is preparing to investigate a mysterious object…
For many divers, Honduras’ Bay Islands mean two names: Roatán and Utila. Roatán has the established resort infrastructure and famous…
There are remote diving destinations, and then there is St Helena. Rising from the South Atlantic more than 1,000 miles…
Volunteer divers in Kuwait have removed approximately a quarter-ton of abandoned fishing nets from a coral reef, freeing marine life…
Technical divers, wreck explorers, cave divers, scientists and equipment developers will gather in Plymouth this November as the Guz.Tech technical…
A 23-year-old South Korean woman has died following a scuba diving incident off Shimoji Island in Okinawa, Japan, after the…
Mares has expanded its regulator range in North America with the introduction of the Planet 62X, a new configuration designed…
One of the healthiest coral reef systems in the continental United States is recording the effects of human activity taking…
There cannot be many government recruitment campaigns where coral reefs, manta rays and weekend diving form a serious part of…
An investigation into the death of an experienced scuba diver at the ex-HMAS Brisbane wreck has been unable to establish…
Reports are emerging from within the international diving community of the death of Canadian technical and cave diver Erik Brown, one…
A 37-year-old woman has died following a scuba diving emergency off Kouri Island in Okinawa, Japan, with authorities investigating the…
At least six sea turtles have died after becoming entangled in abandoned fishing nets off Oman, with a joint diving…
Dive industry representatives in Sabah have welcomed new licensing requirements for scuba tourist guides, arguing that stronger regulation could raise…
A team of divers investigating the seabed near Block Island, Rhode Island, has documented a shipwreck believed to be the…
A team of volunteer divers has recorded a 99% survival rate among adult native oysters attached to an experimental reef…
A 28-year-old Brazilian military police officer has died during an aquatic training exercise in Lake Paranoá in Brasília, prompting prosecutors…
Divers are beginning to return to the ancient underwater ruins off Tyre in southern Lebanon, offering an early sign of…
A 57-year-old Dutch diver has died following an emergency ascent from around 80 metres at Austria’s Attersee, after encountering an…
Scientists investigating the appearance of a non-native yellowbar angelfish in southern Brazil say the evidence points towards an aquarium release…
National Geographic Pristine Seas has begun a major scientific expedition to Tokelau, where divers, researchers and filmmakers will undertake the…
A 63-year-old diver is missing after becoming separated from two companions during a dive at Lake Starnberg in Bavaria, Germany.…
Updated 22 September 2026: This article has been updated following confirmation of the diver’s identity and the emergence of further details…
Cold-water divers in the United States are getting increased access to one of Northern Diver’s more specialised thermal products, with…
Technical divers accustomed to assembling equipment component by component are being offered a more structured route to a personalised buoyancy…
Aggressor Adventures has completed a substantial redesign of the Red Sea Aggressor II, expanding the northern Red Sea liveaboard from 11…
Updated 4 October 2026: This article has been updated following new information from Indonesian search and rescue authorities confirming that…
U.S. Coast Guard divers have completed a series of underwater operations around Kauaʻi as crews worked to restore safe access…
Several prominent members of the international diving community are being recognised with some of the industry’s highest honours in 2026,…
There are dive destinations where you travel with one particular encounter in mind. Then there is Inhambane. Here, heading out…
A long-established scuba diving access point at Burleigh Falls in Ontario has been blocked by concrete barriers and no-trespassing signs,…
A scuba diver has been taken to hospital after an incident involving a white shark during a dive off Percé…
Eight Spanish Navy divers remain in hospital following an accident at a hyperbaric facility in Cartagena, with four now being…
A Malaysian scuba diver has died following an emergency during a dive at Crystal Bay, Nusa Penida, with Indonesian police…
A routine lobster dive off the Florida coast took an extraordinary turn when a diver discovered what appeared to be…
For years, Jamie Pollack has wanted to take children in hospital somewhere very different. Not physically, but for a few…
An experienced Italian freediver has died while carrying out reconnaissance of the seabed ahead of a national spearfishing championship in…
The official search for two experienced scuba divers who disappeared during a dive at Peleliu Wall in Palau has ended…
More than 1,000 scientific scuba dives have been completed across some of the Pacific Ocean’s remote coral reefs as researchers…
Along the southern coast of South Korea, a remarkable diving tradition that has survived for centuries is confronting a very…
A fatal diving accident in New Zealand has prompted calls for a ban on one portable “tankless” breathing system and…
The Galápagos Islands are entering what could become one of the most significant El Niño events of the modern era,…