Technical Diving

An inquest has opened into the death of a 60-year-old diver who died at Dorothea Quarry in North Wales on 31 May.

A scuba diver has died in Dorothea Quarry, a disused slate mine used for technical diving in Gwynedd, North Wales

Halcyon Dive Systems is offering dive instructors a limited-time discount on its Symbios Ecosystem integrated handset, HUD, tank pod and app.

Dive training agency RAID has launched two new courses designed to bridge the gap between recreational and full-on technical diving.

Garmin launches its first large-format dive computer, the Descent X50i, with a 3" colour touchscreen and underwater diver-to-diver messaging.

The Italian WWII torpedo boat Aldebaran is a popular Aegean tech dive - Kostas Thoctarides provides the history of her sinking

Four-day tech summit at world's deepest dive pool will bring together industry experts and innovators for workshops and presentations

The 1856 wreck of Lyonnais, a passenger ship that sank with the loss of 114 lives, has been discovered by a team from Atlantic Wreck Salvage

Shearwater's industry veteran CCR specialist, Curtis 'Curt' McNamee, has announced his retirement after 20 years helping to build the company

Two Polish divers have died following a dive to the wreck of Le Polynesien, a First World War shipwreck off Żonqor Point, Marsascala, Malta.

The Divers Alert Network has issued a preliminary report into the death of Jared Hires, who died in Norway's Plura cave system on 3 April

Cave-diving expert and Dive Rite General Manager, Jared Hires, has died while diving Norways's popular Plura cave system

BBC documentary to highlight the search for a lost German WWI submarine and the British ship that sank her

The British Sub-Aqua Club (BSAC) is bolstering access to technical dive training with the new BSAC Divesoft Liberty CCR course

The Women Divers Hall of Fame has announced it is welcoming seven new members for 2024, including the first posthumous award in its history

Tech diving pioneer Bret Gilliam, co-founder of Technical Diving International (TDI), has died after suffering a stroke earlier this year

Brett Hemphill, holder of the deepest US underwater cave dive, died during a dive more than a mile into Phantom Springs cave system, Texas

Pioneering Canadian inventor, entreprenuer and deep sea explorer, René Théophile 'Phil' Nuytten, has died at the age of 81