Diving News Archive

Oceanic Dive Computers Now and the Future

Oceanic also now known as American Underwater Products (AUP) covers a range of brands including Aeris, Hollis & Oceanic. Every year Oceanic UK hosts a seminar to showcase the new and up coming products that will be available to the UK Market. The seminar covers all products lines and categories from masks to rebreathers. This [...]
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Sport Diver Awards 2012

Simply Scuba needs your help again. Sport Diver has opened up the voting for their 2012 awards covering a range of categories from Best Manufacturer to Best Dive-related Website. We fall into the Best Retailer and Best Dive-related Website categories so if you think we should win in either or even both of these categories [...]
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Top Sellers Of 2011

Top 10 sellers for 2011. Based on units sold below are our top sellers for this year. Clearly in some categories certain brands dominate, Suunto in dive computers and Scubapro in regulators. We found it interesting when reviewing these results that some that made the top 10 were not from the brands you would [...]
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Why Corals Die From Stress In Warmer Oceans

Australian scientists have thrown new light on the mechanism behind the mass death of corals worldwide as the Earth’s climate warms. Without doubt, one of the most devastating events affecting coral reefs around the planet is coral bleaching. This is triggered by rising water temperatures – when the corals and their symbiotic algae become heat-stressed, the [...]
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Divers survey wreck of wartime landing craft

Club divers have investigated and surveyed a WW2 landing craft that sank just a few miles from home after returning from the D-Day landings in 1944. The 58m-long Mk3 Landing Tank Craft (LCT) 427 was headed for Portsmouth after delivering its cargo of tanks to Sword Beach. It went down south-east of the Isle of Wight [...]
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Battle of May Island sub victims surveyed

Two WW1 British submarines have been surveyed off eastern Scotland in order to ensure that they can be left undamaged if a proposed wind-farm is constructed in the area. The survey was carried out on the K-class vessels K4 and K17, which lie in some 50m of water and 100m apart, about 20 miles off Fife [...]
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Cornish dolphin takes to divers

A club diving group could hardly believe their eyes when a dolphin decided to tag along with them for the entire duration of a September dive on the wreck of the Volnay, off Porthkerris in South Cornwall. The group of eight divers from the British Sub-Aqua Clubs Lincoln & District branch were on the last day [...]
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Suunto Dive Manager 4 for Mac

Suunto have now released a Mac version of their popular dive computer interface software which provides a great link between not only your Mac and dive computer but also their online sport / outdoor activity community at www.movescount.com. The DM4 software provides a good clean display show previous dive profiles, temperatures, warnings and tissue levels during [...]
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Resort opens marine biology centre

A luxury resort in the Maldives has set up a facility to aid research into whale sharks that inhabit the waters around the South Ari Atoll. Diva Maldives has opened the Marine Biology Centre to raise community awareness about whale sharks and give its guests a chance to take part in ongoing studies into the world’s [...]
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HEPCA lays into rogue operators in Egypt

An Egyptian environmental group has launched a remarkable attack on diving and fishing operators in the country, claiming that many are indulging in practices that are damaging the marine environment. In a statement headed “The Gloves Are Coming Off!”, the Hurghada Environmental Protection & Conservation Association (HEPCA) has said that it is being forced to “launch [...]
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