| Scientific sleuths track illegal whale meat back to Japan The scientists identified several different whale species in sashimi at restaurants in Santa Monica and Seoul, South Korea, including fin whale, sei whale and Antarctic minke whale. All of these are listed with the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), which prohibits the international trade of endangered species... More >> Angry BC island residents vow to fight artificial reef tourism schemeDetermined residents of sleepy Gambier Island who oppose a local dive industry scheme to sink the HMCS Annapolis in Halkett Bay as a scuba attraction in order to boost local dive operator profits are threatening to file a lawsuit that could reshape laws related to ocean dumping across Canada... More >> Tabata recalls defective regulatorsDivers should immediately stop using TUSA RS-670 regulators due to defective first stage balance chamber plugs that can loosen from the scuba regulator causing a high-pressure leak and unstable pressure which poses a drowning hazard to divers... More >> Blue Springs: Florida's million-dollar cave diving system?According to a couple of academics at two small colleges in Florida and North Carolina, cave diving at Blue Springs could be developed into a million dollar industry... More >> Inquest: Open verdict in death of PADI dive course participantAlthough the Health and Safety Executive fined Jurassic Coast Diving after its investigation found that the PADI 5-star instructor development center failed to properly assemble and maintain its scuba diving life support equipment, an inquest returned an open verdict in the death of 24-year-old Thomas Young, a customer of the dive shop who died while participating in a PADI advanced open water scuba diving course... More >> UK dive accident victim out of comaA diver was recovering at Hull Royal Infirmary after almost drowning in an accident at the Forest Pines Hotel and Golf Resort... More >> | | |
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| Diving accident kills Maui tourist Authorities told CDNN that Daniel Barney, 54, of Spokane, Washington, apparently drowned while diving off Black Rock... More >> Missing Fiji diver believed to be victim of shark attackWitnesses said they watched helplessly as a 19-year diver struggled and fought off an unseen creature before he was dragged beneath the waves... More >> Scuba diving accident kills CanadianAuthorities have not yet released the identity of the scuba diving accident victim who died while participating in a dive trip promoted and sold by a commercial dive operator... More >> | Scuba diving tourist murdered in Dominican Republic A trip to the Dominican Republic by two friends turned into a nightmare when 41-year-old John Gagne was murdered in his bed in a small private villa... More >> Trip report: Hawaii's economic ruinsFor the last two years, vacationers and conventioneers alike have abandoned Hawaii in favor of less exotic destinations closer to home. The result is an unprecedented slowdown in the industry and some cavernous cracks in the state's budget... More >> Staying alive: 'Best Job in World' winner survives deadly jellyfish stingAs if to add a punctuation mark to the abject failure of Australia's "Best Job in the World" marketing scheme, Ben Southall described the horror of being stung by a deadly jellyfish... More >> |
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| Scuba company owner accused of price-fixing scam to pay fine Prosecutors said John Mello, the former owner of Catalina Diver Supply in Avalon, will pay $11,000 to end a lawsuit in which he was accused of colluding with Robert Kennedy, owner of Scuba Luv, to scam dive consumers by fixing prices for scuba diving tours at Catalina Island... More >> Lost and found: USS FlierThe USS Flier was a Gato-class submarine that struck a mine in the Balabac Strait and quickly sank on Aug. 13, 1944... More >> Key West sued after failing to pay
$1 million for Vandenberg projectThe dive industry calls it "wrecks to reefs" and it's all about money but for at least one company, it's been "riches to rags" thanks to Key West, Florida, the troubled tourist town that simply won't pay its bills... More >> | Thrill-seeking tourists threaten dolphins Tourists wanting to watch and swim with dolphins are being urged to keep their distance in a bid to protect the animals from dive industry-endorsed "interactive" wildlife tourism... More >> Sea Shepherd's painful spankingThe two million dollar Ady Gil "bat-boat", which was enlisted by Sea Shepherd to harass Japan's whaling fleet, received "catastrophic damage" and was sinking after it was rammed by the Shonan Maru 2, the no-nonsense "take no prisoners" Japanese whaler... More >> NZ divers oppose local shark feederDivers in New Zealand claim the Great White Southern Dive Company drops minced tuna into the sea to attract the sharks – a practice known as chumming – and are concerned this may modify the great whites' behaviour and endanger their lives... More >> |
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| 'Evil Twin' threatens world's seas The rise in human emissions of carbon dioxide is driving fundamental and dangerous changes in the oceans' chemistry and ecosystems... More >> New research rejects 80-year theory of 'primordial soup' as origin of lifeIn rejecting the soup theory the researchers turned to the Earth's chemistry to identify the energy source which could power the first primitive predecessors of living organisms: geochemical gradients across a honeycomb of microscopic natural caverns at hydrothermal vents... More >> A breed apart: Six-gilled sharksThere's a mysterious creature living in Puget Sound. It's no ghost; rather, it's the six-gilled shark — an awe-inspiring monstrosity whose lineage predates dinosaurs... More >> | Ecotourism, dive travelers threaten Andaman tribes "Tourism can be a useful source of income, but most people would say it's pretty bad news for the local people," says anthropologist David Turton... More >> Scuba looter escapes prosecutionProsecutors decided to drop criminal charges against scuba looter, Steve Shaffer, who faced a prison sentence of one to five years for allegedly stealing the Portsmouth Indian Head Rock... More >> Scuba diving accident kills Tilden's Scuba Center customerJohn Taylor of Clearwater, Florida, died just two days after another Florida Keys diver died while scuba diving with It's A Dive off the Sea Star dive boat... More >> |
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| Edmonds scuba diving accident victim rushed to hospital A man who was injured while scuba diving north of Edmonds ferry dock was taken to Stevens Hospital... More >> Opening day scuba park accident kills Missouri manA man died Saturday while scuba diving at Captain John's Sports and Scuba Park in Oronogo... More >> Cozumel scuba diving accident kills renowned community leaderAttorney Gene P. Johnson, a passionate supporter of the poor and the disadvantaged, died of injuries sustained while scuba diving off Cozumel, Mexico... More >> | UN: Japan violated human rights of Japanese anti-whaling activists The United Nations has ruled that the Japanese Government breached international human rights law by detaining two Japanese anti-whaling activists who uncovered major corruption in Japan's "scientific" whaling programme... More >> Thailand scuba accident leaves one tourist missing, another cut in halfOne scuba diver was cut in half and another is missing after a speedboat ferrying tourists to Pattaya Beach's Hard Rock Cafe plaza ran over them... More >> Diving accident kills Philippines Coast Guard diverA seasoned diver of the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) sacrificed his life yesterday afternoon while helping in the retrieval of bodies from the sunken ferry M/V Catalyn B... More >> |
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| Inquest: Bad planning killed Leigh Bishop dive trip participant With a critically ill dive trip customer in need of immediate emergency medical care, dive trip leaders Leigh Bishop and Jeff Keep made fatal mistakes -- stemming from their failure to thoroughly research the dive trip destination -- that delayed treatment for nearly an hour and a half... More >> Search fails to find missing diverHelicopters and police divers are continuing to search for a 39-year-old man who disappeared while diving off Melbourne... More >> Gabe Watson innocent says familyGabe's parents are outraged and terrified their son may stand trial in Alabama despite a guilty plea in Australia to manslaughter charges for failing to render aid to his wife as her dive buddy... More >> | Police ID dead Cayman Islands diver Police have released the identity of the American woman who died while scuba diving with Resort Sports on the Cayman Islands... More >> Resort Sports scuba diving accident kills another Cayman Islands touristJust two weeks after a popular California soccer coach died while scuba diving in the Cayman Islands, another fatal diving accident there killed an experienced female scuba diver from Utah who was visiting with her family... More >> Another Cayman Islands scuba diving accident kills touristPolice said the scuba diving accident victim was a soccer coach from California... More >> |
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| Residents oppose UK scuba park A business scheme aimed at building a scuba diving park on a local farm have come under fire from Hambrook villagers... More >> UK dive industry conman jailedA Plymouth conman who helped swindle the NHS out of £250,000 has begun his 27-month jail sentence – 18 months late... More >> Recovered body could be missing Scapa Flow diverThe body of a diver recovered from a wreck in Scapa Flow in Orkney may be that of Martin Voordouw who disappeared while scuba diving there in 2007... More >> | Honduras diving accident kills renowned college professor Longtime Mendocino College professor and a founder of the Ukiah Community Center, Susan C. Bell, died while diving with her husband in Honduras... More >> Tourism development, damage puts Belize on UNESCO endangered listAfter more than a decade of political corruption and government mismanagement that failed to protect the Belize Barrier Reef World Heritage Site from tourism developers, UNESCO relisted the site as endangered... More >> Tourism threatens Costa Rica's natural assetsThe issue is a familiar one in developing countries as they weigh the benefits of tourist dollars that come with high-rise hotels against loss of pristine natural habitat... More >> |
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| Body of missing paraplegic diver recovered off Sudan A CDNN source in the region says searchers have recovered the body of a missing paraplegic diver... More >> Paraplegic diver missing off SudanFriends and family are complaining that authorities have done nothing to help locate Dimitris Matsas, a Cypriot paraplegic who disappeared while scuba diving off the coast of Sudan... More >> Shark attacks, kills surfer near South Africa shark baiting siteThe fatal attack came days after South Africa's Dept. of Environmental Affairs announced that shark cage diving in the area would be allowed even closer to shore... More >> | Commercial fishing endangers dolphin populations The study, which examined the competition between the two top predators along the Mediterranean coast of Israel: the Common Bottlenose Dolphin and bottom trawlers... More >> Another Orca Dive Club accident kills British diverFive days after a PADI divemaster died while scuba diving with Orca Dive Club, another member of the same UK-based dive tour group was fatally injured while diving with the same company, which owns a chain of dive shops in Egypt... More >> Orca Dive Club scuba diving accident kills PADI divemasterPolice are investigating the death of PADI divemaster, Robert Fox, who disappeared while scuba diving with Orca Dive Club on the wreck of the El Arish El Tor... More >> |
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| Unsafe at any Depth: PADI Scuba Diver The PADI Open Water course can be completed in two days. The notion that divers should be certified who are unwilling to make even that minimal commitment... More >> Hey Stupid! It's Time for the Nigel Marven and Erich Ritter Show!!!Prior to Anatomy of a Shark Bite we had to endure 'scientist' Erich's telepathic ability to intuit shark behaviour - his ability to read sharks' intentions just by glancing at them and of course his world-famous Yogic Heartbeat Control Theory... More >> Drowning in Open Water, DEMA Spins Out of ControlThe business of promoting diving can be almost as dangerous as diving with sloppy dive boat operators who can't count. DEMA spin doctors who lie and deliberately misinform the public may sign up another contributor or two, but lose touch with reality and irreparably damage their credibility... More >> | ACT NOW: Boycott Palau While Palau pretends to be an eco-friendly dive destination committed to the protection of marine wildlife including dugongs, dolphins and whales, it is colluding with Japan to resume commercial whaling... More >> ACT NOW: Boycott Japan's Caribbean puppetsThe governments of Antigua, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts, St. Lucia and St. Vincent all vote with Japan at annual International Whaling Commission meetings to block conservation measures. Ironically, these same six Caribbean nations are largely dependent on tourism driven by eco-friendly promises of pristine reefs, whale watching and dolphin encounters... More >> ACT NOW: Save the Maui dolphinIn January 2003, New Zealand's Minister of Fisheries wisely banned commercial and recreational set netting in Manukau Harbor, however, to give full and effective protection to the Maui dolphin, trawler fishing must be banned... More >> |
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| Cressi-sub regulators recalled due to drowning hazard Divers should immediately stop using Cressi Ellipse Black MC5 Regulator due to inaccurate pressure readings that pose a drowning hazard to divers... More >> Dive Rite Wings recalled due to drowning hazardDivers should immediately stop using Dive Rite Wings (Travel, Venture, Rec, Trek, Classic, Nomad and Super Wings) due to defective over pressure valve springs that could rust and fail posing a drowning hazard to divers... More >> Diver death prompts Si Tech recallDivers should immediately stop using dry suit hoses manufactured by Sitech due to defective inserts that can dislodge during diving and restrict airflow to the diver, posing a drowning hazard... More >> | Floating deep: The Gyre Powered completely by renewable energy, the Gyre would offer a zero emissions stay for both tourists and researchers hoping to gain a better understanding of the ocean's ecosystem... More >> Scubacraft: The dive boat that divesScubacraft uses an internal-combustion engine to whisk divers at a speed of 50 mph to dive sites where it can submerge and descend to a maximum depth of about 30 meters... More >> Add Scuba Search™ to your siteNow you can add Scuba Search™ to your site and promote your company on the world's first scuba-only search engine... More >> |
