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Reports are surfacing that 17 people had to be rescued by the Indonesian Navy after the Grand Komodo-owned liveaboard Putri Papua sank off the coast of Sorong, in Southwest Papua on Monday morning.A humpback whale entangled in ropes on a Skye fish-farm has been freed by volunteers from British Divers Marine Life Rescue. Towards the end of January, Russian mermaid Mariia Zelenina went viral after a fish violently chomped down on her head during a performance of her underwater show in China.

https://divemagazine.com/scuba-diving-news/divers-rescued-after-komodo-liveaboard-sinks

https://divernet.com/scuba-news/health-safety/volunteers-free-tethered-whale-in-skye/

https://thetab.com/2025/02/05/mermaid-chomped-by-fish-addresses-the-rumour-bosses-threatened-her-to-stay-silent

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US diver Barrington Scott has set a verified Guinness World Record for the fastest time to scuba dive across all seven continents. Cartagena City Council says it is preparing to tighten access to the Cueva del Agua (Water Cave) system in southern Spain, following the death of a 37-year-old female diver there on 18 January. And an underwater habitat builder has just extended the record for longest time spent submerged.

https://divernet.com/scuba-news/scuba-dash-across-7-continents-brings-world-record/

https://divernet.com/scuba-news/health-safety/spanish-cave-divers-death-prompts-calls-for-controls/

https://www.kentucky.com/news/nation-world/national/article299289964.html

https://divernet.com/scuba-news/pod-builder-completes-120-days-under-sea/

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This week on the podcast, An appeal for financial assistance has gone out for what is claimed to be the only UK dive-centre offering community scuba clubs and water-skills classes to both children and adults with disabilities. Hybrid grouper fish, released into Hong Kong's coastal waters as part of a religious ritual, could be wreaking havoc on local biodiversity.

https://divernet.com/scuba-diving/community-scuba-cornish-clubs-need-help/

https://www.gofundme.com/f/community-scuba-clubs-st-austell?attribution_id=sl%3A53c8f350-e106-413f-ad5a-ac254c28dbd4&utm_campaign=natman_sharesheet_dash&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link

https://www.iflscience.com/hybrid-fish-released-in-religious-rituals-are-taking-over-the-waters-of-hong-kong-77695

https://www.thesun.ie/news/14571032/waterford-whale-washed-up-popular-beach/

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This week on the podcast, a fairly damning report on the Red Sea Authorities following the Sea Story sinking. A couple of new records including a photoshoot at 50m and an underwater walking distance record. And a Malaysian dive resort has had its licence officially revoked by the government.

https://divernet.com/scuba-news/health-safety/efforts-to-coerce-sea-story-diver-survivors-reported-by-bbc/

https://divernet.com/photography/photographers/underwater-model-shoots-just-went-into-deco/

https://divernet.com/scuba-news/wrecks/latest-shipwreck-discovery-dives-raise-questions/

https://divernet.com/scuba-news/freediving/female-freediver-steps-up-for-absolute-record-walk/

https://divernet.com/scuba-news/malaysian-dive-resort-has-licence-revoked/

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Seven tourist divers and their local dive-guide spent almost 30 hours floating off the Pacific islands of Palau before being rescued by what the US Coast Guard has described as a “Good Samaritan” fisherman.

International diving medical experts have come up with a joint position statement on the subject of immersion pulmonary oedema

US dive-light manufacturer Light & Motion is closing down after 35 years in business, citing politics among “many factors” contributing to its decision.

A series of safety failures led to the preventable death of a diver while under water at Manns Harbor Bridge on Croatan Sound in North Carolina, according to the US Department of Labour.

https://divernet.com/scuba-news/health-safety/eight-divers-undergo-30hr-drift-in-palau/

https://divernet.com/medical/ipo-survivors-strongly-advised-to-quit-diving/

https://divernet.com/scuba-gear/lights/switch-off-light-motion-closes-down/

https://divernet.com/scuba-news/health-safety/employer-failed-to-check-divers-health /

https://aqualung-group.com/Aquasense/

https://santidiving.com/products/edge-2/

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This week on the podcast, Another US titan of extreme diving, has departed: Hal Watts died at the age of 88.

All hands on deck for the Great Barrier Reef baby boom.

Scuba divers who use personal locator beacons (PLBs) are being urged to take part in a consultation on a Coastguard proposal.

The body of a scuba diver who went missing off Cornwall on 22 September has been found on a beach about 15km from his last-known location.

the man behind the cocaine-smuggling plot that saw a Brazilian rebreather diver die and another go on the run in Australia in 2022, has been jailed

https://divernet.com/scuba-diving/hal-watts-the-passing-of-mr-scuba/

https://divernet.com/features/coral-spawning-on-the-great-barrier-reef/

https://divernet.com/scuba-diving/locator-beacons-15min-that-could-save-your-life/

https://divernet.com/scuba-news/health-safety/missing-divers-body-found-on-cornish-beach/

https://divernet.com/scuba-news/health-safety/sentenced-man-behind-drugs-plot-that-left-ccr-diver-dead/

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This week on the podcast, The death of an 18-year-old on his first scuba dive has led to the biggest workplace fine in the history of the US state of Minnesota. Specialist police searches are being carried out in north Wales for a diver identified only as Imrich, 53, from Warrington in Cheshire. British divers among the seven people still unaccounted for after the sinking of the Sea Story liveaboard in Egypt have been named. The Coastguard has stood down a multi-agency search for a scuba diver who went missing in Scapa Flow, leaving Police Scotland to continue with its own investigation.

https://divernet.com/scuba-news/health-safety/record-fine-for-firm-that-left-teen-solo-on-first-dive/

https://divernet.com/scuba-news/health-safety/diver-searches-continue-in-wales-orkney/

https://divernet.com/scuba-news/health-safety/british-divers-missing-from-sea-story-named/

https://divernet.com/scuba-news/health-safety/multi-agency-search-for-scapa-diver-called-off/

https://divernet.com/scuba-news/new-company-takes-over-scubaverse/

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This week on the podcast, Eight people, including two Britons, remain missing following the sinking of the Red Sea dive liveaboard Sea Story yesterday (25 November). Four bodies are reported to have been recovered so far. Australian Diving Instruction, a PADI 5* instructor development centre in Geelong, south of Melbourne in Victoria, has been fined Aud $40,000 (£20,460) for the explosion of an out-of-test scuba cylinder that resulted in a diver's leg being blown off. A 25-year-old man from the UK has died after reportedly losing consciousness while scuba diving off Greece's Attica coast near Athens, on the afternoon of 24 November.

A Chinese diver wearing a brightly coloured novelty hood is reported to have been bitten on the back of the head by a tiger shark at a popular Maldives dive-site.

https://divernet.com/scuba-news/health-safety/8-still-missing-after-huge-wave-sank-red-sea-liveaboard/

https://divernet.com/scuba-news/health-safety/dive-school-fined-for-explosion-that-cost-instructors-leg/

https://divernet.com/scuba-news/health-safety/british-diver-dies-in-greece-instructors-arrested/

https://divernet.com/scuba-news/health-safety/tiger-bites-divers-head-at-maldives-shark-tank/

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