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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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This week on the podcast, 

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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This 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 “incredibly promising” for the future. Leading liveaboard holiday companies Emperor Divers and Solomon Islands-based Bilikiki Cruises have joined forces.A last-minute reprieve for half of the shipwreck treasures that had looked set to be dispersed into private collections at an auction in Cornwall from tomorrow (6 November) has been provided by UK charity the Maritime Archaeology Sea Trust (MAST).

https://divernet.com/scuba-news/health-safety/extracting-cave-divers-body-technically-demanding/ 

https://divernet.com/scuba-diving/v6-blind-paraplegic-buddy-pair-claim-dive-record/

https://divernet.com/scuba-news/conservation/english-seagrass-success-promises-worldwide-boost/

https://divernet.com/scuba-news/emperor-divers-announces-new-partnership-with-bilikiki-cruises/

https://divernet.com/scuba-news/wrecks/mast-steps-in-to-save-museum-shipwreck-items/

https://divernet.com/scuba-news/health-safety/two-well-known-dive-liveboards-blaze/

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This 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 its second Project Director, has passed away. And Florida-based International Training (IT) has decided to tidy up its diver-training branding by putting its various agencies under a single umbrella – that of SDI, or Scuba Diving International.

https://divernet.com/scuba-news/health-safety/fisherman-threw-dead-snorkeller-back-into-sea/

https://divernet.com/scuba-news/health-safety/egyptian-liveaboard-sinks-in-deep-south/

https://www.facebook.com/woodvillekarstplainproject/posts/pfbid02NbmGVJVu6jcVH7beF4VESVZuMVtbiXu8wFBgUX65LNZQps3ePJXTVWtxEnhzZhh6l 

https://divernet.com/scuba-news/health-safety/regional-coach-died-after-rebreather-error/

https://divernet.com/scuba-news/training/one-dive-family-lines-up-under-sdi-banner/

https://santidiving.com/products/bz420x/

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This 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 incidents

https://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://divernet.com/scuba-news/marine-biology/pink-seafans-bred-in-uk-for-first-time/ 

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This 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 there has been some nice news also.

https://divernet.com/scuba-news/health-safety/female-divers-body-parts-found-in-shark/

https://divernet.com/scuba-news/health-safety/disconnected-hose-caused-scapa-divers-death/ 

https://divernet.com/scuba-news/health-safety/diver-dies-in-mexico-on-solo-cenote-probe/ 

https://divernet.com/scuba-news/conservation/meet-steve-backshall-one-of-many-bite-back-prizes/

https://divernet.com/scuba-news/freediving/ukrainian-freediver-sets-no-fins-world-record/

https://divernet.com/scuba-news/health-safety/british-diver-dies-in-malta-2/

https://divernet.com/scuba-news/wrecks/dive-team-solve-dorset-pin-wreck-mystery/

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