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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/

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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/

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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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 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://divernet.com/scuba-news/women-break-into-nz-korean-navy-dive-teams/ 

https://divernet.com/scuba-news/archaeology/diver-discoveries-in-black-sea-fortress-harbour/ 

https://divernet.com/scuba-news/training/family-friends-targeted-in-padis-referral-drive/ 

https://divernet.com/scuba-news/ireland-gains-its-first-artificial-reef/ 

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 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.

https://divernet.com/scuba-news/ss-united-states-liner-to-become-worlds-largest-artificial-reef/ 

https://divernet.com/scuba-news/red-sea-mola-mola-sighting-makes-local-news/

https://divernet.com/scuba-news/health-safety/line-retrieval-ends-in-diver-death-sunk-boat/ 

https://divernet.com/scuba-news/health-safety/pot-consultant-suspended-after-divers-death-in-malta/ 

https://divernet.com/scuba-news/sculpture-for-kent-river-grenada-diver-draw-due-soon/

https://divernet.com/scuba-news/freediving/tough-conditions-yield-world-freediving-record/

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This 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/conservation/dive-pro-accused-of-carving-corals-for-cash/

https://www.scubadivermag.com/ex-navy-diver-set-to-swim-channel-backwards/ 

https://www.scubadivermag.com/fake-shark-parked-ll-cool-j-under-water/ 

https://www.ladbible.com/news/world-news/jamaica-shark-attack-decapitated-jahmari-reid-latest-457708-20240830 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg794yvkm5eo 

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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 world

https://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.scubadivermag.com/thai-warships-launch-underwater-learning-park/ 

https://www.scubadivermag.com/woman-dies-on-return-from-brief-dive-off-bali/

https://divernet.com/scuba-news/health-safety/2-diver-deaths-in-lanzarote-on-same-day/ 

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