Rare sightings of Risso’s dolphins and pantropical spotted dolphins have been recorded off Port Macquarie in deep offshore waters, providing valuable data for marine scientists.
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Later reporting says Zubeen Garg drowned while swimming near Lazarus Island in Singapore, not during scuba diving, highlighting why accurate language matters for safety messaging.
Zubeen Garg Death in Singapore Was Linked to Swimming, Not Scuba Read More »
A 64-year-old woman died after a scuba dive near Catalina Island, according to authorities. The incident happened Saturday morning near Casino Point Underwater Park, a well-known dive site off the island.
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A French Polar Institute scientific diver, Gérald Malaussena, who went missing during an under-ice work dive near Dumont d’Urville Station in Adélie Land on 13 January, has been located on the seabed with help from a US Coast Guard team. His body has been found, but it had not yet been recovered at the time of reporting.
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The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) has launched a search-and-rescue operation for at least 11 recreational divers and crew after their dive-boat capsized off Davao Oriental in the southern Philippines.
News | 18 Jan 2026 | Two separate incidents involving the same tourist submarine have raised fresh safety questions around shared dive-sites in the Cayman Islands.
Search teams are looking for a French Polar Institute diver who went missing during an under-ice dive in Antarctica earlier this week.
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Tahiti coral conservation organisations working across French Polynesia. The focus is on four groups and programmes linked to Tahiti and Mo’orea, with project sites also connected to Ahé, Taha’a, Bora Bora, and Tetiaroa Atoll.
Divers have recovered artifacts from the wreck of the Britannic, the sister ship of the Titanic, for the first time since it sank in 1916. The recovery was announced by Greece’s Culture Ministry in mid-September 2025, after a weeklong deep-diving operation carried out in May.
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A new Guinness World Records title has pushed one of the most talked-about limits in freediving: holding breath underwater for as long as possible. On 14 June 2025, Croatian freediver Vitomir Maričić set the record for longest time breath held voluntarily underwater (male) with a time of 29 minutes 3 seconds in Opatija, Croatia.
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