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 ...

A teenage scuba diver from Colorado, USA, has lost one of her legs following a shark-biting incident off the coast of Belize. Annabelle Carlson, 15, was diving near Halfmoon Caye in the Gulf of ...

Following on from her excellent and similarly weighty 2019 tome 100 Dives of a Lifetime, National Geographic writer Carrie Miller and her photographer husband, Chris Taylor, spent 14 months in 35 ...

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 ...

Oscar Ramirez is an underwater photographer from California. He fell in love with the underwater world in his late twenties while snorkelling for the first time and was captivated by the massive ...

Enter your best pictures utilising light and shadow in their composition for the chance to win an Aggressor Adventures liveaboard trip to Belize For the next iteration of our Big Shot underwater ...

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!

The Tulamben shoreline with the wreck of the USAT Liberty shown in the foreground Home to one of the best-known scuba diving sites in Bali, Tulamben originated as a small fishing village located on ...

A pocket-size treat for shark lovers – a review of Sharkpedia, A Brief Compendium of Shark Lore by Daniel C Abel, Princeton University Press What a treat this pocket-sized compendium is, packed with ...

Named for the sailors of Greek mythology, argonauts – also known as paper nautili – are a unique group of shelled octopuses (and can’t sail) The common name ‘paper nautilus’ refers to the paper-thin ...

A female diver from the city of St Petersburg has been rescued after spending 24 hours drifting in the cold waters of the Tatar Strait, off the eastern coast of Russia During the dive, her guide ...

An inquest into the death of a British scuba diver in Ċirkewwa, Malta in October 2024 found he died as a result of pulmonary barotrauma ...