#AskMarkThis week on the podcast, A diver has died in a cave in the Swiss canton of Ticino, with recovery of his body now presenting a challenge to expert rescuers. A blind BBC journalist and a paraplegic amputee, both from Lancashire, are hoping to have an hour-long Red Sea dive to a maximum depth of 40m carried out as a buddy-pair recognised by Guinness World Records. After five years of work, England’s biggest seagrass-restoration project has come to a close, with its results described as ...

#AskMarkThis week on the podcast, A fisherman in Greece who found the body of a snorkeller in his nets and threw it back into the sea has been found guilty of manslaughter. A liveaboard has sunk in the far southern Egyptian Red Sea, after its captain appeared to have disregarded severe weather warnings. The death of a UK rebreather diver off the south Devon coast in May was the result of “user error”, it was stated at the opening of an inquest. Bill Gavin, a founding member of the WKPP and it...

#AskMarkThis week on the podcast, a new fear is unlocked as a women is killed by a flying needlefish. Breaking down BSAC’s Annual Diving Incident Report and it seems like the number of incidentshttps://divernet.com/scuba-news/health-safety/flying-needlefish-kills-italian-surfer/https://divernet.com/scuba-news/health-safety/diving-deaths-up-says-bsac-but-it-has-good-news-too/ https://divernet.com/scuba-news/unique-research-vessel-flip-destined-to-be-scrapped-has-joined-deep/https://divern...

#AskMarkThis week on the podcast, the remains of a diver have been found in the stomach of a shark but, relatives stress that it was not the shark that killed her. A coroner has concluded that while the death of a scuba diver in Scapa Flow was accidental, it could have been prevented had appropriate equipment checks been carried out before entering the water. A search and rescue operation was launched in Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula when a solo cave-diver went missing in one of the cenotes, and...

#AskMark This week on the podcast, Female clearance divers have simultaneously graduated into both the New Zealand and South Korean navies for the first time. Late Antiquity amphoras, a Byzantine anchor and an iron battle knife were among discoveries made during a recent underwater archaeological expedition in the Black Seat. And training agencies have some new thoughts on promoting diving.https://divernet.com/scuba-news/health-safety/search-for-diver-in-cornwall-called-off/ https:/...

#AskMark This week on the podcast, The United States is set to become the largest artificial reef. The SS United States is a 300m ocean liner that’s being decommissioned and plans to sink her to become an artificial reef in recreational depths is exciting news for divers. A rare sighting of sunfish in the Red Sea around the Brothers has made the news and it another excuse to book your next Red Sea liveaboard. And a diver has died collecting ghost gear helping to clean up a shipwreck.http...

#AskMarkThis week on the podcast, Professional Dive guides in the Phillipines are in hot water after a tip off that some are accepting payment for engraving names in coral, leading to authorities to quadruple the reward money for any information on the culprits. LL cool J has recently told the Guardian that the anamatronic shark in Deep Blue Sea almost drowned him. And a former Navy diver has decided to become the first to swim the English channel, on his back.https://divernet.com/scuba-news/...

#AskMark This week on the podcast, some divers deserve a good telling-off for committing heresy. Some decommissioned warships have been sunk for us divers to play with and several dive deaths around the worldhttps://divernet.com/scuba-news/conservation/carved-up-coral-shocks-bohol-divers/ https://www.scubadivermag.com/divers-help-themselves-to-champagne-on-protected-wreck/ https://divernet.com/scuba-news/wrecks/malta-wreck-divers-win-long-sought-protection/ https://www.scu...

#AskMarkThis week on the podcast, James Bond has donated limited edition motorcycles to the RNLI, The British Sub Aqua Club is asking divers to prepare to clean our oceans in September. And apparently all of us are extreme sportsters as scuba diving ranks number one in a poll ranking extreme sports people would like to try but, don’t think they’ll ever get to tryhttps://www.scubadivermag.com/daniel-craig-donates-limited-edition-motorcycles-to-rnli/https://www.scubadivermag.com/bsacs-great-bri...

#AskMarkThis week on the podcast, The wreck of the cruiser HMS Hawke, sunk by German submarine U-9 early in World War One with the loss of 524 officers and crew, appears to have been discovered off Scotland's north-east coast by the Lost in Waters Deep wreck-researchers and Gasperados technical dive team. And The Sydney diving community is in shock after local divers came across a gruesome discovery on Friday night. https://divernet.com/scuba-news/dive-team-finds-notable-ww1-warship-at-1...

#AskMarkThis week on the podcast, a poor lass from America lost her leg after a shark bite while she was swimming after a dive. An incredibly rare encounter with a sixgill shark in Canada. The GhostNet Campaign Celebrates a record haul in honour of paul watson and Germany has issued and arrest warrant for a diver over Nord Stream...

#AskMarkThis week on the podcast, The first compensation payments for expenses incurred in the deaths of 34 people who died when the Californian dive liveaboard Conception caught fire in 2019 have been ordered by a US federal judge – though whether its captain Jerry Boylan is in a position to foot the bill remains unclear. Cradles for baby corals designed to frustrate toothy predators such as parrotfish could be deployed as part of a drive to rehabilitate reefs hit by disturbance events such ...

#AskMarkThis week on the podcast, a pair of lost divers were rescued thanks to their dive lights, a POV video of a basking shark hit by a boat and there’s a dive site up for sale if you have some spare changehttps://divernet.com/scuba-news/health-safety/dive-lights-saved-couple-on-38hr-drift/https://divernet.com/scuba-news/capernwray-put-up-for-sale-again/https://divernet.com/scuba-news/marine-biology/basking-shark-boat-strike-captured-under-water/https://www.scubadivermag.com/women-dive-toge...

#AskMarkThis week on the podcast, the real-world sequel to Cocaine Bear: Cocaine Shark, I’m sure somebody is working on the film rights as we speak. Paul Watson, founder of Sea shepherd and more recently the Captain Paul Watson Foundation since the split has been arrested by Danish Police in Greenland on an arrest order from Japan. And a rather controversial freediving record because the diver was being pulled along by a state of the art carbon fiber DPV.https://news.sky.com/story/amp/sharks-...

Divers discover Bronze-Age Nordic Axe #scuba #news #podcastThis week on the podcast, lots of underwater artefacts including a record breaking bronze age axe and lots of whale strandings recently, whales have had a rather rough week https://www.scubadivermag.com/norwegian-celt-axe-dive-site-sparks-speculation/https://www.scubadivermag.com/divers-big-glass-haul-in-bulgaria/https://www.scubadivermag.com/this-is-huge-worlds-rarest-whale-washes-ashore/https://www.scubadivermag.com/mass-pilot-...

This week on the podcast, big Shearwater news as they announce a partnership with Reel Diving. A ‘heroic’ diver sacrificed his own life trying to save another diver, knowing that he would be missing decompression stops, and PADI are talking at the United Nations.https://divernet.com/scuba-news/health-safety/2-poles-die-after-malta-wreck-dive/ https://timesofmalta.com/article/zonqor-tragedy-experienced-hero-diver-sacrificed-life-try.1095120 https://www.scubadivermag.com/padi-leading-...

This week on the podcast, A group of people have risked a 30 thousand dollar fine to rescue a humpback whale caught in a net, a 24ft shark has washed up on a Scottish beach and a new British freediving record, https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-03/paddle-boarders-cut-shark-nets-free-humpback-whale-marcoola/104047232https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13592597/Giant-shark-UK-beach-walkers-fish-forklifted.htmlhttps://apnews.com/article/scuba-diver-death-af09104796f8a9de571dc79892f665...

This week on the podcast, a liveaboard has sunk in the Red Sea after colliding with a reef, the Olympic flame has been handed over underwater, PADI has launched a new internship and other underwater newshttps://www.thescubanews.com/2024/06/26/24-french-tourists-saved-after-safari-boat-sinks-on-marsa-alams-coral-reefs/https://divernet.com/scuba-news/health-safety/diver-dies-on-first-day-of-donegal-rally/ https://www.scubadivermag.com/alice-modolo-takes-olympic-flame-for-a-dive/ https...

This week on the podcast, a monk seal has been exiled to keep them away from divers, the shipwreck of Shackleton’s final ship has been found and various other news stories over the previous week or twohttps://www.scubadivermag.com/monk-seal-exiled-to-remote-island-to-protect-divers/https://www.scubadivermag.com/royal-canadian-geographical-society-finds-wreck-of-shackletons-last-ship-quest/https://www.scubadivermag.com/reel-diving-uk-takes-over-divemaster-scuba/https://www.scubadivermag.com/oc...

This week on the podcast, the underwater photography world mourns the loss of one of the greats who wrote the book on underwater photography. The family of a 13-year-old diver who was lost at sea is suing the resort over the death. And a diver has died taking part in a lake cleanup but, reports are unclear on his qualificationshttps://www.scubadivermag.com/underwater-photography-world-mourns-renowned-uwp-guru-martin-edge/https://divernet.com/scuba-news/health-safety/13-year-old-divers-parents...

This week, it looks like DPV manufacturer ScubaJet has begun insolvency proceedings. PADI has distributed half a million dollars in their Project Aware campaign. Dorset coastguard have called off the search for a missing diver. And the Pearl Fleet has commented on a viral video of a shark-dive that didn’t go so wellhttps://taucher.net/diveinside-insolvency_proceedings_at_scubajet-kaz9246https://divernet.com/scuba-news/conservation/padi-aware-distributes-500k-in-mission-hub-grants/https://www....

This week, Saudi Arabia is looking to buy Sharm El Sheikh, a man has been fined for attempting to jump on a killer whale in a video online and a few other worrying videos are popping up on social mediahttps://divemagazine.com/scuba-diving-news/saudi-arabia-offers-to-buy-part-of-sharm-el-sheikh-from-egypthttps://www.scubadivermag.com/get-the-kettle-on-join-bite-backs-big-brew-for-the-blue/https://www.scubadivermag.com/orca-body-slammer-fined-for-stupid-behaviour/https://www.scuba.com/p-atmb2xd...

This week, tickets for our digital screening of Diving Into the Darkness are available, A British scuba diver who saved her twin sister’s life in Mexico by repeatedly punching an aggressive crocodile three years ago has been awarded the King’s Gallantry Medal. An Australian stripper is facing prison for diving for cocaine that Police had already confiscated and Shearwater release an air-integrated version of their Peregrine computer.https://www.scubadivermag.com/join-special-virtual-screening...

This week, we have the account of one of the divers on board the Sea Safari VII fire that contradicts the official timeline. The captain of the conception liveabord has been sentenced to four years in jail after his appeal failed. There’s a new subscription-based training agency out there that’s turning some heads and according to training numbers, more and more women are qualifying than ever before.https://divernet.com/scuba-news/health-safety/blazing-dive-boat-evacuation-chaotic-say-uk-dive...