Shipwrecked: Nightmare at Sea revisits a cruise disaster, but its lessons on bridge discipline and passage planning apply just as much to liveaboard operations Netflix released Shipwrecked: Nightmare at Sea on July 10, 2026, an 87 minute documentary that reconstructs […]
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Italian authorities have opened an investigation into the death of a recreational diver who was found with serious head injuries following a dive in the Punta Campanella Marine Protected Area, on Italy’s Sorrentine Peninsula. Investigators are examining whether the injuries
A pontoon boat capsized roughly 600 yards from Alcatraz Island on Tuesday afternoon, leaving one person dead and three others missing, San Francisco authorities confirmed. The San Francisco Fire Department received the first report of a vessel in distress at
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Latvian and Estonian rescue crews are continuing an extensive search for a diver who went missing during a wreck dive in the Baltic Sea over the weekend, as authorities widen the operation to include underwater unmanned vehicles. The Maritime Search
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A tourist launch identified as the “Sea Spirit” began sinking in the Gebel El Zeit area off Ras Ghareb, in the northern Red Sea Governorate, on Tuesday evening, triggering a rescue operation and — separately — coinciding with a new
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In November 2023, a German marine engineering student named Justus Schiszler from Kiel University of Applied Sciences (FH Kiel) submitted a bachelor’s thesis entitled ‘An Investigation into a Series of Accidents Involving Diving Safari Boats’,which he prepared in collaboration with
A diver reported overdue from a commercial dive vessel off Key Largo, Florida, was located and rescued by a U.S. Coast Guard boat crew on Saturday, July 11, in an operation that officials say was aided directly by the diver’s
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A chartered cruise ship carrying approximately 1,900 passengers was reportedly denied entry into Egyptian waters after Turkish authorities had also refused the vessel permission to dock at two scheduled ports. Virgin Voyages’ Scarlet Lady, chartered by US travel operator Atlantis
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A global product safety recall is underway for a range of Apeks second-stage regulators after testing revealed a manufacturing flaw that could restrict a diver’s air supply at depth. HEAD Watersports, the parent distributor of Apeks, confirmed the recall in
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A criminal investigation has formally opened against a scuba diving instructor in Argentina following the death of a 23-year-old trainee during a wreck training dive earlier this year. Sofia Devries went missing on 16 February while diving with a group
