| Japan issues arrest warrant for Sea Shepherd 'terrorists' Police have sought arrest warrants for a Briton and two Americans from Paul Watson's hardline Sea Shepherd group, which Japan describes as a mob of eco-terrorists... More >> Teen scuba diver presumed deadAuthorities have called off the search for a 14-year-old boy who disappeared while scuba diving with his father in Devon... More >> Sherwood shutting down NY plantSherwood Valve announced it will shut down one of its three manufacturing plants in anticipation of a reduction in business... More >> Injured UK divers airlifted to hospitalIn a dramatic rescue, two scuba divers suffering the bends had to be winched to safety from rough seas off Start Bay... More >> Dead Sonoma diver identifiedAuthorities have identified the man who drowned while diving off the Sonoma Coast as Craig Alan Belluomini of San Bruno... More >> California scuba poachers chargedThe San Diego City Attorney's Office identified the scuba diving poachers as Dorr Erik Overby and Jesse Tyler House-knecht who were caught with 122 lobsters out of season of which 113 were undersize... More >> Last alarm: Fallen fire-rescue diver laid to restMore than 500 firefighters — some from Boston, New York and as far away as the state of Georgia — showed up at St. Theresa Church to honor fallen fire-rescue diver Lt. Gerald R. Leduc... More >> Diver drowns in Stillwater CoveA man who was seen struggling after he apparently became entangled in kelp drowned while diving off California's Sonoma County coast... More >> Verdict: Dive industry insiders found guilty of hyperbaric treatment scamA jury of six men and five women found dive industry insiders David Welsh and Michael Brass guilty of swindling nearly half million dollars in bogus hyperbaric treatment claims... More >> Rescue delayed in fatal MASS Diving accidentRescuers reached a scuba diver who died in Folly Cove more slowly than they would have had the Bay View fire station been open at the time... More >> | | |
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| 'Red gold' killing Nicaraguan divers As many as 5,000 Nicaraguan men -- most of them indigenous Miskitos -- risk their lives each year in Nicaragua's commercial lobster industry, taking on the increasingly perilous task of plucking ''red gold'' from the Caribbean... More >> Andrea Doria: Dying for a tea cup"You get sucked into wanting a piece of china," said one diver about the Andrea Doria. "It costs so much money, it's so far out, that you take risks you wouldn't take on any other wreck just to get a piece of china. It's not worth dying over, but you don't think that way"... More >> Scuba diving accident kills MASS Diving customerA 48-year-old man who was diving with MASS Diving of Natick, Massachusetts died at Folly Cove off the Cape Ann coast... More >> | Travelers warned of soaring ticket prices as airlines slash 60m seats Today's doom and gloom prediction came from the airline industry 'bible', travel information company OAG. It supported the depressing views that world aviation could be facing its worst-ever global downturn... More >> How green is your blue holiday?Flip through a travel brochure, and you're likely to see pictures of sun and sand in Southeast Asia or scuba diving in the bejewelled coral reefs of the Caribbean. What the brochure won't reveal, though, is tourism's dirty little secret: the cost of your trip to the environment... More >> Hawaii tourism takes a steep diveFewer tourists are traveling to Hawaii and their combined spending decreased as steeper airfares discouraged people from visiting... More >> |
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| Dive industry insider fraud trial goes to jury The jury of six men and five women are expected to retire tomorrow to consider verdicts in the trial of four dive industry insiders accused of a hyperbaric fraud scam that raked in nearly a half million dollars in fraudulent claims to the NHS... More >> SSI instructor faces jail sentence after being indicted by grand jurySSI scuba instructor Allison Gibson, 44, was indicted by a grand jury and charged with criminally negligent homicide in the scuba diving death of Zachary Moore, 21, whose parents have filed a civil suit against SSI and Gibson... More >> Florida dive boat captain denies 'boat rage' rammingTwo law enforcement agencies are investigating allegations that convicted poacher Captain Dan Lindley of Offshore Dive Charters rammed another boat while at the helm of Diamond Diver... More >> | Feds bust Florida lobster poacher A Florida Keys commercial fisherman could lose his boat and do federal prison time if convicted of charges that he illegally poached thousands of spiny lobsters with traps that damaged coral reefs and sea grasses in sensitive marine waters... More >> How did things get so bad so fast?Demand has exceeded the sustainable yield of natural systems at the local level countless times in the past. Now, for the first time, it is doing so at the global level... More >> Trash piling up in new Hawaiian marine reserveOcean currents each year still bring an estimated 57 tons of garbage and discarded fishing gear to the 10 islands and waters surrounding them, where the refuse snares endangered monk seals, smothers coral reefs and fills the guts of albatrosses and their young with indigestible plastic... More >> |
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| Diver finds rare artifact A rare 2,500-year-old marble discus was found last week by an Israeli lifeguard diving in the underwater antiquities site of Yavne-Yam... More >> Underwater archaeologists explore prehistoric submerged forestThe Scottish Trust for Underwater Archaeology will spend the next two weeks inspecting the drowned forest. They will be focusing on two trees - one dating from 4,270 BC to 4,040 BC and the other dating from 2,350 BC to 2,120 BC... More >> Scientists investigate Gulf's dead zoneA dead zone is an area in the ocean without enough oxygen to sustain life. The Black Sea has the largest dead zone in the world. The second largest is right off Louisiana's coast and it's getting bigger every year... More >> | History worth saving: 'Moonlight' Archaeologists describe it as a "time capsule" and praise the high ethical standards of the divers who found the century-old schooner.. More >> 'Raising the Dead: A True Story of Death and Survival'Less than half a minute after the emergency began, Don Shirley was stabilised. His descent was arrested and he was breathing safely. Shirley was now the only living being in the cave. Nearly 250m of water and 70 decompression stops lay between him and the open air. He began to ascend... More >> Plastic Ocean: The Great Pacific Garbage PatchA vast swath of the Pacific, twice the size of Texas, is full of a plastic stew that is entering the food chain. Scientists say these toxins are causing obesity, infertility...and worse... More >> |
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| Scuba diving accident kills Andrea Doria diver The body of a man presumed to be the missing Andrea Doria diver who failed to surface Wednesday was recovered by fellow divers early in the evening... More >> Diver killed on Cancun honeymoonSean Palma married his dream girl on June 28. Now Palma is dead, and his wife is coming home from their Cancun honeymoon carrying his ashes in a box... More >> Scuba diving accident kills Tobermory diverA man who was part of a large group of divers that chartered a dive boat died after a scuba diving accident at Tobermory... More >> | Young tourist dies scuba diving at Bohol Divers Resort A 24-year-old tourist died while scuba diving at Bohol Divers Resort in the Philippines. Authorities declined to comment on the cause of death... More >> Scuba looting crime gangs destroying Malaysia's heritageScuba divers working for organized crime gangs are destroying Malaysia's best wreck diving sites as they steal artifacts that rake in only a fraction of what fully protected wreck sites can generate from dive travelers... More >> Authorities stonewall Maldives scuba diving accident victimsTourist victims of a the recent diving accident that left one dead and nine others poisoned say they have received no communication from Maldivian authorities... More >> |
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| Hawaii tourism takes a deep dive Hard hit by the increasing cost of travel and America's declining economy, tourists arrivals in Hawaii were down a staggering 14.2%... More >> Hawaii diver narrowly escapes great white shark attackIn a blink of an eye a great white shark shot across 50 feet of water toward Stanley Aranita, giving the experienced diver only seconds to ditch his speargun and jump into his kayak to safety... More >> New Caledonia issues new warning as dengue epidemic worsensThe outbreak of mosquito-transmitted dengue fever in New Caledonia has so far affected over 900 persons in the French Pacific territory since the beginning of this year... More >> | Former PADI dive shop owner to stand trial for scuba diving murder Former PADI 5-Star owner David Swain is charged with murdering his wife, Shelly Arden Tyre, on March 12, 1999 while the couple was scuba diving at the twin wrecks off Cooper Island, in the British Virgin Islands... More >> Inquest: Coroner can't explain why scuba diver died in Caymans"I just think we will never know exactly what happened," said Coroner Richard Taylor at the inquest into the scuba diving death of Don Foster's customer Tina Baxter... More >> Caymans police: Nothing irregular about Sea Trek helmet diving deathA police investigation into the death of a tourist in the Cayman Islands found nothing irregular with the Sea Trek helmet diving company... More >> |
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| Shark diving accident kills 3 tourists Three tourists are dead after the "Shark Team" cage diving boat capsized off Gansbaai. According to the boat owner, Charmaine Beukes of the White Shark Projects company, a huge wave flipped it over... More >> Lamu, Kenya's secret paradise islandWas there ever a more exotic landfall than Lamu? It lies off the northern coast of Kenya, two degrees south of the equator and 500 years from the rest of the world... More >> Dive in to Dahab's vibeLocated on the western shore on the Gulf of Aqaba some 80 kilometres north of the internationally renowned resort of Sharm-el-Sheikh, the Red Sea backpacker mecca is as close to perfect as it gets... More >> | Probe into Navy diver's death The death of Able Seaman Christopher Johnstone comes a year after the family of diver Lieutenant Paul McAulay were awarded £750,000 damages by the Ministry of Defence... More >> Scuba diving accident kills renowned jazz pianistEsbjörn Svensson, the genre-defying Swedish jazz pianist and composer, died while scuba diving in Sweden's Stockholm archipelago... More >> Dead diver ID'd as BSAC vice chairmanAuthorities have released the identity of the victim of a fatal scuba diving accident CDNN reported on June 2. The fatally injured diver was former BSAC vice chairman Ken Farrow... 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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| Oceanic, Aeris recall regulators The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with Oceanic and Aeris, has announced an urgent recall of defective regulators... More >> M&J Engineering recallThe U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with M&J Engineering, announced a voluntary recall of the SW-3000 Aga OmniSwivel... More >> Innovative Scuba Concepts recallThe U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with Innovative Scuba Concepts, has announced an urgent recall... More >> | Dive Brunei, Dive Cambodia, Dive China and Dive Hong Kong (beta) Four new ScubaLinx directories give you the advantage of detailed information plus Scuba Poll dive consumer reviews for dive centers and resorts in Brunei, Cambodia, China and Hong Kong... More >> Dive Australia: The good, the bad and the ugly down under (beta) The new Dive Australia directory is the first to integrate dive consumer ratings with iPlanet's 8.02 design upgrade that improves on Cyber Diver's immensely popular ScubaLinx site... More >> Add Scuba Search™ to your site Now you can add Scuba Search™ to your site and promote your company on the world's first scuba-only search engine... More >> |
