Something is shifting in how the world thinks about diving safety — and Google is picking up the signal. In the twelve months to May 2026, global searches for “dive accident” and “diving fatality” surged 900% year-on-year. “Scuba diving death” […]
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Let’s be completely honest about what is happening in the diving industry right now: we are failing the consumer, undermining our own market sustainability, and choking out future growth — because too many professionals are behaving like religious zealots instead
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Divers Alert Network moves to clarify the scope of its federal filing — but the questions it raises are not so easily contained. Divers Alert Network issued a formal public statement on June 26, 2026, seeking to clarify the nature
2026 is a year of sea change in the dive industry. Full disclosure before anyone reads another word. Brian Carney and Sean Harrison are friends of mine. They have been friends for many years. I am also hardly a neutral
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Disclosure: I am a former member of the Recreational Scuba Training Council (RSTC) Board of Directors, and previously served on the NAUI Board of Directors and NAUI Training Committee. The views expressed here are solely my own. Yesterday, Divers Alert
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A reflection on diving safety, operational planning, and the responsibility we carry every time we enter the water The news arrived the way difficult news always does — abruptly, with a weight that settles slowly. Five Italian divers lost their
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On the morning of May 14, 2026, five experienced Italian divers descended beneath the surface of Devana Kandu — a tidal channel near Alimathaa Island in the Maldives’ Vaavu Atoll, approximately 100 kilometres south of the capital Malé — and
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For nearly two decades, Vincent Meurice says he has lived without the panic attacks that once disrupted his daily life. Surprisingly, he does not credit medication or a breakthrough therapy session for the change. Instead, he points to something far
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Recent discussions on social media about a diving incident in Hurghada have brought an important topic back to the surface of the global diving community: the professional boundaries that must exist between dive instructors and their students. The conversation, however
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A solo traveller’s underwater footage from Hurghada, Egypt, has ignited a wider conversation about safety standards in the Red Sea resort town’s diving industry, after the clip — showing alleged inappropriate physical contact by a scuba instructor — accumulated over
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