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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 /

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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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