PADI founders John Cronin, left, and Ralph Eriksson (Photo: PADI) The Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI) is this year marking its 60th anniversary since its founding by John Cronin ...

Stock photo of a tourist boat anchored at a reef near Hamata (Photo: Shutterstock) All passengers and crew were rescued safely after a tourist boat ran aground near Hamata, south of Marsa Alam in ...

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 ...

The Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI) has announced that its dive centres and resorts across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) will be inviting scuba divers to sign up for ...

A technical diving instructor has been sentenced to 50 hours’ unpaid work after a Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigation found he was responsible for ‘multiple failings’ leading to his ...

While the world watches the jockeying of billionaires trying to conquer space, a far smaller project with a fraction of the Musk/Bezos/ Branson exploration budgets is quietly going about its business.

The death of a British snorkeller in Dahab, Egypt in February this year has been attributed to Immersion Pulmonary Oedema (IPO), according to a Coroner’s inquest into the 72-year old’s death Les Finch ...

Think you know your dive gear, gas mixes, and buoyancy tricks? Dive into the deep end of scuba knowledge with this True or False challenge – not for the faint-finned!

Researchers from Norway’s Nord University have revealed for the first time that there are three distinct types of great white shark, following a split in the global population some 100,000 to 200,000 ...

The Nippon Foundation-Nekton Ocean Census, the world’s largest collaborative effort to accelerate the discovery of marine life, has announced the discovery of 866 new marine species. Ocean Census was ...

The study was initiated when Pate, an MMF scientist and US Country Manager, received a photograph of a sicklefin devil ray from a Florida scuba diver in 2018. A subsequent collaboration between MMF, ...

Two Russian divers have died after being swept away by strong currents while diving near Verde Island out of Batangas, in the Philippines. Local media reports one of the divers had an arm severed ...