A 31-year-old recreational diver from southern Tasmania is recovering after being bitten by a shark off Bruny Island on Saturday morning, in an incident police describe as isolated but are urging water users to stay alert. The Incident The man
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Huish Outdoors has issued a voluntary recall of roughly 7,200 Hollis 200LX Second Stage scuba regulators sold in the United States, along with 370 units sold in Canada, after identifying a defect that can cause the regulator to fail underwater.
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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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Updated August 19, 2026 The body of a diver who went missing during a wreck dive in the Baltic Sea off Latvia in July has been found, according to Latvian State Police. The diver disappeared on July 12 while diving
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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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