Diving
Sharks and Divers: What the Data Says Versus the Reputation
Shark bites made headlines again in 2025. The numbers behind those headlines tell a very different story for the people actually diving with sharks.
Mar 5, 2026
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Blacktip Sharks Can Hear a Sound From Nearly 250 Feet Away and Swim Straight Toward or Away From It
A Florida Atlantic University study of free-swimming blacktip sharks off Palm Beach County found the animals could detect low-frequency underwater sounds from 74 metres away and change course in response, the clearest field evidence yet of shark hearing range.
Oct 1, 2026
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Manta Rays and Whale Sharks: The Encounters and the Etiquette
The Indian Ocean hosts some of diving's biggest animal encounters. The rules for approaching them properly matter more than most divers realise.
Sep 12, 2025
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Diving the Maldives: Atolls, Channels and the Seasons That Matter
The Maldives is not one dive destination but hundreds of atolls with different currents. Here is how the calendar actually decides what you see.
Aug 9, 2024
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Tubbataha Is the Dive Trip You Plan a Year Ahead
The Philippines' remote World Heritage reef rewards careful planning with walls, sharks, turtles and a conservation model built around a short liveaboard season.
Jul 25, 2026
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Diving the UAE: Fujairah, Dibba and the Musandam Peninsula
The Gulf coast rarely gets mentioned in dive travel guides, but Fujairah and the Musandam peninsula quietly deliver some of the region's best reefs.
Nov 3, 2024
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Oman Below the Surface: Daymaniyat Islands and the Hallaniyat Wrecks
Oman splits its diving into two distant reserves, one a protected reef north of Muscat, the other a remote wreck-strewn archipelago in the south.
Mar 15, 2025
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Divers Pulled 1,400 Metres of Abandoned Fishing Net Off an Oman Beach After Six Sea Turtles Were Found Dead in It
Environment Authority divers working with volunteers from Divers Planet reached the site near Bimmah Beach at 7.30am on 23 September to find six turtles already dead, then spent hours retrieving two nets spanning 1,400 metres combined.
Sep 27, 2026
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Raja Ampat in 2026: Extraordinary Reefs, Real Currents and New Pressure
Raja Ampat remains one of diving's richest destinations, but current, season, permits and mounting pressure from tourism and mining belong in the booking decision.
Jul 25, 2026
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What DAN's Diving Fatality Data Actually Shows
DAN's annual diving reports track how divers die each year, and the leading cause is rarely the dramatic equipment failure popular imagination assumes it to be.
Jun 19, 2026
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Fish Farm Diving Keeps Killing Divers. The Reasons Are Boringly Consistent
Malta, Chile, Norway, Scotland. Different species and different regulators, the same short list of causes: entanglement, working alone, depth creep, and a job nobody classified as commercial diving.
Aug 12, 2026
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Three Months After the Maldives Cave Deaths: What Has Actually Changed
Five Italian divers and a Maldivian rescuer died in May. A manslaughter file is open in Rome, a liveaboard lost its permit, and the Maldives is writing technical diving law. A follow-up assessment.
Aug 12, 2026
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Lebanon Dives Its Own History, Including a Vichy Submarine
A French submarine at 36 metres, a 1939 freighter at 40, and a Victorian battleship far beyond recreational limits. Lebanon's coast is a wreck list before it is a reef.
Aug 6, 2026
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Decompression Sickness: What Happens in the Body, and Treatment
Divers call it the bends. Doctors call it decompression sickness. Here is what nitrogen bubbles actually do to tissue, and how hyperbaric treatment reverses it.
Feb 14, 2024
