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Boats fire toll hits four
Four Red Sea diving liveaboards were lost in a fire which raged in a Suez dry dock on 30 January, it has been confirmed.

The Big Question 74
Are you happy to be buddied with a diver you don't know?

Fire destroys Egyptian charter boats
At least two Red Sea liveaboards have been destroyed and others damaged by fire, while laid up for maintenance.

Ship moved from Red Sea reef
A cargo ship which grounded in a popular diving area in the northern Red Sea has been refloated and towed away.

Treasure ship is Spain's
A US court has determined that a US salvage company that raised some $500 million in treasure from a North Atlantic wreck must hand the haul to Spain.

Holiday group loses two
Two members of a British group holidaying in Egypt have lost their lives in separate incidents.

Manado for less
"Experience world-class diving with reef sharks and delightful dugongs against a dramatic volcanic landscape". That's the message from Regaldive regarding its current dive holiday package in Manado, Indonesia. And it all comes at a discounted price - if you act quickly.

Watson request
Officials in America have urged Australian counterparts to do more in providing information about a US citizen imprisoned over a scuba death.

Welsh crawfish history wanted
Welsh researchers are asking divers to dig into their logbooks and pass on any records they have of crawfish sightings.

What value Bite-Back? You decide
Buyers are being invited to pay whatever they like for conservation group Bite-Back's 2010 calendar.

Basking in the hotspots
Two areas of western Scotland have been identified as hotspots for basking sharks, according to a new report.

Sharks campaign offers holiday prize
A shark conservation group is offering the chance to win a 10-day diving holiday in Indonesia to those who support its Asian campaign.

Tristan is liveaboard photo winner
Tristan Jones' striking image of a diver with a shoal of goatfish has surfaced at the top of an outstanding batch of entries in the 2009 onboard photo contest organised by Red Sea liveaboard operator blue o two.

British diver feared lost
Hopes are fading for a British diver who went missing on Saturday, 16 January off Safaga, in southern Egypt.

Nibblers aid coral recovery
Areas of coral reef in the Bahamas have recovered after a spell of degradation, thanks to an unexpected turn of events.

Endurance location bid
Fresh from locating a WW2 hospital ship off Australia, deep wrecks explorer David Mearns now wants to find Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance.

Midlands divers have an ice time
As Britain froze, some divers in the Midlands took their chance to go ice diving, Arctic-style.

BSAC’s Mike Todd dies
Mike Todd, formerly Chairman of the British Sub-Aqua Club, has died in hospital.

Dive shock prompts mega-diet
A woman has managed to lose six stone, spurred by an episode in which she could not haul herself unaided back into a dive boat.

Lundy is an MCZ
England’s Lundy Island has been designated as a Marine Conservation Zone, under the new Marine and Coastal Access Act.

Killed by speedboat
One diver is dead and another missing after the pair were run down by a speedboat off the coast of southern Thailand.

WW2 hospital ship found
The wreck of the Australian hospital ship Centaur has been located off the country’s north-east coast.

Orca discovery
Orca whales found in British waters come in two distinct forms, scientists have found.

Scoones masterclass
Top underwater cinematographer Peter Scoones is to give a day’s tuition on photographic techniques for divers in Essex on 6 February.

Porpoise given second chance
A marine life rescue team has conducted the tricky rescue of a porpoise stranded on Mersea Island, off north-east Essex.