A 56-year-old woman has died after losing her arm in a suspected shark attack while snorkelling off Frederiksted in the Caribbean island of St Croix, part of the US Virgin Islands. The Virgin Islands ...

The Academy of Underwater Arts & Sciences (AUAS) has announced the recipients of the 2026 NOGI Awards, recognising individuals whose careers have made a significant and lasting impact on the ...

Test your understanding of the physics that govern depth, pressure and breathing gas, where small misconceptions can have big consequences underwater.

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 ...

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

A 65-year-old diver from Victoroia has died after an incident at South Australia’s Tank Cave, according to local authorities ...

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!

Kuwaiti diver Faisal Al Mosawi has set a new Guinness World Record (GWR) for the fastest wheelchair-using scuba diver at a recent event at the Dubai Aquarium and Underwater Zoo. Al Mosawi, who lost ...

A green sea turtle receives a once-over from an axilspot hogfish, a species of wrasse. Sea turtles are involuntary hosts to more than 30 different organisms living harmlessly on their surface ...

Pseudocolochirus violaceus – a cucumber shaped like an apple with an unpleasant mode of defence and which breathes through its backside The Sea Apple (Pseudocolochirus violaceus) is the collective ...

Wearable tech specialist Garmin has launched its first large-format dive computer, the Descent X50i, featuring a 3-inch colour touchscreen display, backup dive light, air integration and ...

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 ...