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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 beco…

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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 …

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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 …

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This week on the podcast, James Bond has donated limited edition motorcycles to the RNLI, The British Sub Aqua Club is asking divers to prepare to clean our oceans in September. And apparentl…

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This week on the podcast, The wreck of the cruiser HMS Hawke, sunk by German submarine U-9 early in World War One with the loss of 524 officers and crew, appears to have been discovered off S…

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This week on the podcast, a poor lass from America lost her leg after a shark bite while she was swimming after a dive. An incredibly rare encounter with a sixgill shark in Canada. The GhostN…

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This week on the podcast, The first compensation payments for expenses incurred in the deaths of 34 people who died when the Californian dive liveaboard Conception caught fire in 2019 have be…

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This week on the podcast, a pair of lost divers were rescued thanks to their dive lights, a POV video of a basking shark hit by a boat and there’s a dive site up for sale if you have some spa…

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This week on the podcast, the real-world sequel to Cocaine Bear: Cocaine Shark, I’m sure somebody is working on the film rights as we speak. Paul Watson, founder of Sea shepherd and more rece…

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Divers discover Bronze-Age Nordic Axe #scuba #news #podcast

This week on the podcast, lots of underwater artefacts including a record breaking bronze age axe and lots of whale strandings recen…

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This week on the podcast, big Shearwater news as they announce a partnership with Reel Diving. A ‘heroic’ diver sacrificed his own life trying to save another diver, knowing that he would be …

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This week on the podcast, A group of people have risked a 30 thousand dollar fine to rescue a humpback whale caught in a net, a 24ft shark has washed up on a Scottish beach and a new British …

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This week on the podcast, a liveaboard has sunk in the Red Sea after colliding with a reef, the Olympic flame has been handed over underwater, PADI has launched a new internship and other und…

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This week on the podcast, a monk seal has been exiled to keep them away from divers, the shipwreck of Shackleton’s final ship has been found and various other news stories over the previous w…

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This week on the podcast, the underwater photography world mourns the loss of one of the greats who wrote the book on underwater photography. The family of a 13-year-old diver who was lost at…

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This week, it looks like DPV manufacturer ScubaJet has begun insolvency proceedings. PADI has distributed half a million dollars in their Project Aware campaign. Dorset coastguard have called…

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This week, Saudi Arabia is looking to buy Sharm El Sheikh, a man has been fined for attempting to jump on a killer whale in a video online and a few other worrying videos are popping up on so…

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This week, tickets for our digital screening of Diving Into the Darkness are available, A British scuba diver who saved her twin sister’s life in Mexico by repeatedly punching an aggressive c…

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This week, we have the account of one of the divers on board the Sea Safari VII fire that contradicts the official timeline. The captain of the conception liveabord has been sentenced to four…

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This week, breaking news of a boat fire in Indonesia. A new blue hole in Mexico is believed to be the deepest in the world. A UK coroner records first IPO verdict on snorkeller. And the Tobag…