The UK franchise of technical diver training agency IANTD has been bought by Martin and Amy Stanton, who own inland dive site Vobster Quay.

The date for next year's Dive Fest in Cornwall has been set for 29 April-2 May - put it in your diary now.

Diver and shark expert Valerie Taylor has been appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in the Queen's birthday honours list for services to conservation and the environment.

Tickets for the Bite-Back at Cancer charity dinner dance are on sale now. The event, which will be held in central London on 18 September, raises money for shark and marine conservation charity Bite-Back and Marie Curie Cancer Care.

Five leatherback turtles have been spotted in the UK so far this summer, according to the Marine Conservation Society (MCS).

A diver was airlifted to a decompression chamber yesterday (Tuesday) suffering from decompression illness.

Derrick Bird, who last week killed 12 people during a murderous rampage in Cumbria, targeted an instructor from his dive club against whom he held a grudge.

The British Society of Underwater Photographers (BSoUP) is holding a one-day 'splash-in' photography competition in Plymouth on 3 July.

Norman Lancefield, a member of Barry Sub-Aqua Club in Wales, recently celebrated his 90th birthday with a weekend of diving.

A diver has been found safe and well after drifting for more than three hours off the Pembrokeshire coast.

A new wreck is to be sunk at inland dive site Stoney Cove on Friday 4 June.

Wet summers have been blamed for only half of Britain's beaches reaching the standards for clean water in the Marine Conservation Society's (MCS) annual Good Beach Guide.

The London Diving Chamber has released a new iPhone app that will find the nearest decompression chamber wherever you are in the world.

Fancy dress, fire-eaters, and fantastic vis - Dive Fest 2010 was a family-friendly festival that saw hundreds of divers from across the UK come together at Pentewan Sands holiday park, Cornwall, over the May bank holiday.

This year's British Underwater Image Festival sponsored by Cameras Underwater produced another fantastic crop of photographs, DIVE takes a look at the winners

A workshop on decompression illness (DCI) aimed at all divers is being held on 11 September by the Diving Diseases Research Centre (DDRC) and the Sub Aqua Association.

Egypt's Chamber of Diving and Watersports (CDWS) is asking divers to send in photos of illegal fishing in the Red Sea.

Apeks has recalled its WTX BCD after a problem with the oral inflate button. A case of the button working itself loose has prompted the company to ask divers with the BCD to get it inspected.

Monty Halls' new TV series, Monty Halls' Great Hebridean Escape, will be starting on Wednesday 21 April at 9pm on BBC2.

The number of diving incidents involving medical problems increased last year, according to a report by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA).