A 56-year-old woman has died after losing her arm in a suspected shark attack while snorkelling off Frederiksted in the Caribbean island of St Croix, part of the US Virgin Islands. The Virgin Islands ...

The Academy of Underwater Arts & Sciences (AUAS) has announced the recipients of the 2026 NOGI Awards, recognising individuals whose careers have made a significant and lasting impact on the ...

Test your understanding of the physics that govern depth, pressure and breathing gas, where small misconceptions can have big consequences underwater.

Test your knowledge of how Earth’s oceans are changing as they warm, rise, and respond to a shifting climate.

Oceanic whitetips have seen some of the most catastrophic population declines (Photo: Shawn Heinrichs) Oceanic whitetip sharks have been granted the highest level of protection under CITES after ...

A new study published in Science Advances has exposed a large-scale, persistent illegal trade in fins from some of the ocean’s most threatened sharks. Researchers found fins from species listed under ...

New carnivorous death ball sponge found by the ROV SuBastian at 3601 metres at the Trench North dive site, east of Montagu Island (Photo: The Nippon Foundation-Nekton Ocean Census/Schmidt Ocean ...

Test your knowledge of the world’s most challenging dives with this quiz on the skills, science and history of cave diving.

A tourist boat and snorkellers on the Great Barrier Reef (Photo: Shutterstock) Cairns, Queensland-based tour operator Hostel Reef Trips has been fined AU$60,000 (£29,333) for safety failings following ...

One boat has been sunk and a second damaged by a pod of orcas (killer whales) off the coast of Portugal. The sunken vessel, named Oceanview, which belongs to the Nautic Squad, a sailing based in ...

Think you know your dive gear, gas mixes, and buoyancy tricks? Dive into the deep end of scuba knowledge with this True or False challenge – not for the faint-finned!

The golden nurse shark was caught during a sport fishing competition in Costa Rica (Photo: ParisminaDomusDei/Facebook) A new study has documented the first recorded case of the rare pigmentation ...