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Aggressor Adventures announces ‘Travel With the CEO’ weeks

Aggressor Adventures announces ‘Travel With the CEO’ weeks

ByDIVE StaffSep 25, 2026

Aggressor Adventures has announced the return of its popular Travel with the CEO Weeks, offering guests the opportunity to join…

Six foreign dive instructors arrested in Koh Tao work permit crackdown

Six foreign dive instructors arrested in Koh Tao work permit crackdown

Six foreign scuba diving instructors have been arrested on the island of Koh Tao, Thailand, during an operation by Thai…

Four tech divers found safe after surfacing away from boat in Samaesan, Thailand

Four tech divers found safe after surfacing away from boat in Samaesan, Thailand

ByDIVE StaffAug 17, 2026

Four technical divers were found safe on the evening of 14 August after failing to return from a training dive…

Five villagers found alive in flooded Laos cave as search continues for two others

Five villagers found alive in flooded Laos cave as search continues for two others

ByDIVE StaffMay 28, 2026

Five of seven villagers trapped inside a flooded cave in central Laos have been found alive after more than a…

Thai cave rescue veterans join operation to reach seven trapped in flooded Laos cave

Thai cave rescue veterans join operation to reach seven trapped in flooded Laos cave

Rescuers are racing to reach seven villagers trapped inside a flooded cave in central Laos, with specialist cave divers from…

DIVE’s Big Shot Living Together – THE WINNERS!

DIVE’s Big Shot Living Together – THE WINNERS!

Check out the winning and highly commended images from our Big Shot Living Together underwater photography competition – as featured…

Survivors of Thai liveaboard DiveRACE Class E fire speak out – part 2

Survivors of Thai liveaboard DiveRACE Class E fire speak out – part 2

The second part of our interviews with survivors of the Thai liveaboard DiveRACE Class E Fire, which burned to the…

Survivors of Thai liveaboard DiveRACE Class E fire speak out – part 1

Survivors of Thai liveaboard DiveRACE Class E fire speak out – part 1

On 12 April 2025, the Thai liveaboard DiveRACE Class E caught fire on the final night of a Similan Islands…

Diving the Similan Islands with Aggressor Adventures

Diving the Similan Islands with Aggressor Adventures

ByDIVE ContributorsMay 27, 2025

The granite topography of Thailand’s Similan Islands gives writer and photographer Mark B Hatter plenty to work with during a…

Shark fins seized at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi International Airport

Shark fins seized at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi International Airport

ByDIVE StaffMay 6, 2025

A huge haul of 402 shark fins weighing in at 102 kilograms has been seized by Thai customs officials at…

Thailand bans entry-level divers from using cameras underwater

Thailand bans entry-level divers from using cameras underwater

The Thai government has issued an order banning entry-level divers from using cameras underwater, unless they have an Advanced Open…

DIVE’s Big Shot Portraits – THE WINNERS!

DIVE’s Big Shot Portraits – THE WINNERS!

Check out the winning and highly commended images from our Big Shot Portraits underwater photography competition – as featured in…

Divers and crew abandon ship in Thailand liveaboard fire

Divers and crew abandon ship in Thailand liveaboard fire

Sixteen divers and ten crew members (some reports say 18 divers and 9 crew) were forced to abandon ship in…

DIVE Magazine Spring 2025

DIVE Magazine Spring 2025

Issue # 37: Ocean colour scenes DIVE’s Spring ’25 magazine – packed as always with brilliant photography and great writing…

picture of a thai dive boat on fire off the coast of Koh Tao

British woman still missing after Koh Tao dive boat fire

A 26-year-old British woman from Lambeth, London, is still missing as a result of a fire on board a dive…

'Parrotfish & Shrimp' By Michael Gallagher

DIVE’s Big Shot Bright and Beautiful – THE WINNERS!

Check out the winning, highly commended and best of the other featured images from our Big Shot Bright and Beautiful…

The best places in the world for scuba diving

The best places in the world for scuba diving

Need ideas for your next scuba diving adventure? Here’s a rundown of the best places in the world to scuba…

DIVE’s Big Shot Caves, Caverns & Overhangs – THE WINNERS!

DIVE’s Big Shot Caves, Caverns & Overhangs – THE WINNERS!

ByDIVE StaffJul 3, 2024

Check out the winning, highly commended and best of the other featured images from our Big Shot Caves, Caverns &…

picture of a scuba diver in thailand touching a whale shark's tail

Scuba diver fined for pulling whale shark tail in Thailand

A scuba diver has been fined by Thailand’s Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP) for touching a…

my thailand aggressor at sea

Aggressor Adventures announces return of the Thailand Aggressor

ByDIVE StaffMar 23, 2024

Aggressor Adventures has announced that starting from 2 November 2024, the Thailand Aggressor will once more be able to offer…

Missing diver feared trapped in sunk liveaboard

Missing diver feared trapped in sunk liveaboard

ByGraeme GourlayDec 27, 2023

Two feared lost after Thai liveaboard sinks in the Andaman Sea Millie Young, 57, an artist from Brighton, and a…

Rescued Thai youth footballer dies in UK

Rescued Thai youth footballer dies in UK

Duangpetch Promthep – also known as Dom – one of the 12 members of the Wild Boars youth football team…

jacques cousteau and aqua lung

Celebrating 80 years of Jacques Cousteau’s favourite dive sites

ByDIVE StaffFeb 7, 2023

2023 marks 80 years since Jacques Cousteau and engineer Émile Gagnan built the ‘Aqua-Lung’, widely regarded by many as the…

Featured Photographer: Todd Thimios

Featured Photographer: Todd Thimios

ByDIVE StaffOct 18, 2022

Todd Thimios is an expedition guide for high-end clientele who specialises in technical diving and underwater filming. Originally from the Great Barrier…

The Rescue: definitive documentary on saving the Thai cave 13

The Rescue: definitive documentary on saving the Thai cave 13

ByDIVE ContributorsFeb 7, 2022

Roemary E Lunn reviews a thrilling and thorough documentary of the rescue of the youth football team from a flooded…

Featured Photographer: Rich Neely

Featured Photographer: Rich Neely

ByDIVE StaffJan 26, 2022

I learned to dive twenty-five years ago in a cold, old granite quarry near my hometown in Norfolk, England. A…

Featured Photographer: Ponnie Janjarasskul

Featured Photographer: Ponnie Janjarasskul

ByDIVE StaffJan 19, 2022

My name is Ponnie Janjarasskul and I am from the land of smiles, Thailand – Bangkok to be exact. I…

DIVE Travel Awards 2021: Top 5 dive centres and resorts by region

DIVE Travel Awards 2021: Top 5 dive centres and resorts by region

This year DIVE readers nominated more than 750 dive centres around the world as their personal favourite. From Norway to…

DIVE Travel Awards 2021: best scuba diving destinations

DIVE Travel Awards 2021: best scuba diving destinations

More than 105 different scuba diving destinations were voted for by readers in the 2021 DIVE Travel Awards. Here’s a…

Featured Photographer: Pete Atkinson

Featured Photographer: Pete Atkinson

ByDIVE StaffJun 9, 2021

As a teenager growing up in Suffolk, I wanted Jacques Cousteau’s lifestyle. Who wouldn’t? I was accepted by Bangor University…

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