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1 week ago | 
divemagazine.com | Mark Russell
The Professional Association of Diving Instructors, PADI, has its Master Scuba Diver Challenge for 2025. This year, as an incentive for attaining the agency’s top recreational rating is the chance to win a dive trip to Fiji. PADI’s Master Scuba Diver (MSD) rating is obtained after students have completed their Open Water and Advanced Open Water Diver courses, five Specialty courses, their Rescue Diver course and logged 50 dives.
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2 weeks ago | 
divemagazine.com | Mark Russell
The Shark Trust’s citizen science initiative, The Great Shark Snapshot, is returning for its fourth year, giving members of the public a chance to add to the growing shark database of shark and ray sighting information. Divers and snorkellers are invited to submit reports of any sharks and rays they spot, wherever in the world they happen to be. This year the Great Shark Snapshot takes place in Shark Month between 19-27 July.
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2 weeks ago | 
divemagazine.com | Mark Russell
By The body of a diver that was recovered from Dorothea Quarry in Gwynedd, North Wales, on 31 May was found 85 metres (300ft) underwater, according to a coroner who opened the inquest into the diver’s death. The man has been named by the inquest, which is being held at Caernarfon Coroner’s Court, as Tim James Waples, a 60-year-old engineer from Hertfordshire.
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2 weeks ago | 
divemagazine.com | Mark Russell
A new survey of the sunken Spanish galleon, San José, by Colombian researchers has discovered a trove of gold coins, providing more evidence confirming the ship’s identity. Dubbed the ‘Holy Grail of shipwrecks‘ for the hoard of treasure she was carrying, San José was the flagship of the Spanish Treasure Fleet, reportedly laden with 200 tons of gold doubloons, silver and emeralds at the time of her sinking.
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3 weeks ago | 
divemagazine.com | Mark Russell
The winners of the twelfth annual Photo Competition for United Nations World Oceans Day have been announced at a celebration of the United Nations World Oceans Day in Nice, France.
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3 weeks ago | 
divemagazine.com | Mark Russell
A scuba diver has been arrested after exiting the water from a dive in Mallorca, Spain, and charged with looting the remains of a 2,000 year-old Roman shipwreck. The 39-year-old man, who has not been identified, was arrested on 22 May as he was leaving the water, still wearing his wetsuit and carrying a metal detector with a bag of loot tied around his waist. The man’s nationality has not been widely reported, but German newspaper Bild has identified him as a German national living on Mallorca.
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3 weeks ago | 
divemagazine.com | Mark Russell
A deep-sea training and engineering dive by a multi-disciplinary team of researchers has revealed the first pictures of the World War One-era US Navy submarine, the USS F-1, 108 years after she sank. Built in 1911 and originally named Carp, F-1 was an F-class submarine commissioned by the US Navy in 1912. She was assigned to the First Submarine Group, Pacific Torpedo Flotilla and briefly held the world’s deep-diving record at 86m (283ft).
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3 weeks ago | 
divemagazine.com | Mark Russell
By US President Donald Trump has pardoned two divers from Florida who were convicted of theft in 2022 after freeing 19 sharks from fishing lines off the coast of Jupiter, Florida in 2020. John Moore Jr, who was the captain of a shark-diving boat, and Tanner Mansell, one of his crew, freed the sharks and a goliath grouper in August 2020, believing they were part of an illegal longline fishing operation.
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3 weeks ago | 
divemagazine.com | Mark Russell
By A 60-year-old man has died while scuba diving at Dorothea Quarry, a disused slate quarry used as a dive site located in the Nantlle Valley of Gwynedd, North Wales. Police were called to the quarry on Saturday, 31 May after receiving reports of a diver in distress, but the man – who has not been named – had already died at the scene. A spokesperson for the North Wales Police said: ‘Police attended the Dorothea Quarry area of Caernarfon following a report of an incident involving a diver.
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1 month ago | 
divemagazine.com | Mark Russell
Shearwater Research has announced the latest in its Journeys series of dive computers with the debut of the Perdix 2 Journeys Edition. Following the successful 2022 launch of its Teric Journeys Edition, the new computer continues to draw inspiration from the history of diving helmets and tools, with the flagship Perdix 2 now available with a bronze-coloured titanium bezel.
