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Scuba Diver Magazine

Mark Newman

113 episodes

3 months ago

#AskMark Thailand is clamping down on underwater photography, a diver is still missing after a shark encounter in the Mediterranean, a Red Sea Liveaboard has been evacuated after colliding with a reef, a dive instructor saves a gyroplane pilot, and an inquest has determined that an underwater vortex was the cause of a diver's death last year. https://www.nationthailand.com/life/travel/40049152 https://divernet.com/scuba-news/health-safety/diver-missing-after-shark-encounter-in-med/ https://...

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#AskMark Thailand is clamping down on underwater photography, a diver is still missing after a shark encounter in the Mediterranean, a Red Sea Liveaboard has been evacuated after colliding with a reef, a dive instructor saves a gyroplane pilot, and an inquest has determined that an underwater vortex was the cause of a diver's death last year. https://www.nationthailand.com/life/travel/40049152 https://divernet.com/scuba-news/health-safety/diver-missing-after-shark-encounter-in-med/ https://...

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Episodes (20/113)

Scuba Diver Magazine

Thailand Restricts Underwater Cameras #scubadiving #podcast

#AskMark Thailand is clamping down on underwater photography, a diver is still missing after a shark encounter in the Mediterranean, a Red Sea Liveaboard has been evacuated after colliding with a reef, a dive instructor saves a gyroplane pilot, and an inquest has determined that an underwater vortex was the cause of a diver's death last year. https://www.nationthailand.com/life/travel/40049152 https://divernet.com/scuba-news/health-safety/diver-missing-after-shark-encounter-in-med/ https://...

3 months ago

22 minutes

Scuba Diver Magazine

Two Dive Boat Fires in Two Days #scubadiving #podcast

#AskMark The body of an unnamed male scuba instructor has been recovered from a dive site in Ontario. Two dive-boat engine fires have occurred on successive recent days in southern Thailand. And Minesota introduces a new scuba diving safety bill after the deaths of two divers cleaning a lake. https://divernet.com/scuba-news/health-safety/instructor-dies-on-ontario-wreck-dive/ https://divernet.com/scuba-news/health-safety/more-dive-boat-fires-bedevil-thailand/ https://senatedfl.mn/sena...

4 months ago

31 minutes

Scuba Diver Magazine

Divers Caught for Abusing Sea Turtle #scubadiving #podcast

#AskMark https://divernet.com/scuba-news/health-safety/divers-left-at-sea-consider-negligence-action/ https://divernet.com/scuba-news/freediving/ice-dives-pull-ups-freedivers-target-record-books/ https://us.aqualung-group.com/pressroom/ https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/scottish-news/foolish-diver-threw-fake-bomb-34980473 https://www.nst.com.my/news/nation/2025/03/1188643/five-fined-harassing-sea-turtle-sabah-after-video-goes-viral Support the show Website https://www.scubad...

4 months ago

32 minutes

Scuba Diver Magazine

A New Owner For AquaLung? #scubadiving #podcast

#AskMark A 26-year-old British backpacker is missing, and presumed dead, after a fire ripped through a dive boat some six miles off the coast of Koh Tao in Thailand. Divers and snorkellers urged to take action for UK waters with Motion for the Ocean IANTD and SEI adopt ‘Powered By DAN’ First Aid programmes Greek tech divers find WW2 Australian bomber An Atlanta bagpiper died while scuba diving. The skeletal remains of his missing son were then found on his property And according to an anonymo...

4 months ago

25 minutes

Scuba Diver Magazine

Divers Left Behind Recued by Ferry #scubadiving #podcast

#AskMark Divers Left Behind Recued by Ferry #scubadiving #podcast https://www.sunstar.com.ph/cebu/blast-fishing-ruins-rehabilitated-reef https://www.underwatertimes.com/news.php?article_id=42695100873 https://divernet.com/scuba-news/euro-divers-launches-blue-lens-workshops-in-egypt/ https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-12/scuba-divers-left-in-ocean-on-group-trip-off-perth/105040546 Website https://www.scubadivermag.com Instagram https://www.instagram.com/scubadivermagazine/ Facebook https...

5 months ago

26 minutes

Scuba Diver Magazine

3 Day Underwater Cave Rescue Success #scubadiving #podcast

#AskMark https://divernet.com/scuba-news/health-safety/hit-and-run-leaves-diver-with-leg-injury/ https://divernet.com/scuba-news/health-safety/2-russian-divers-die-after-separation-in-philippines/ https://divernet.com/scuba-news/health-safety/5m-lawsuit-brought-after-snorkel-death/ https://divernet.com/scuba-news/health-safety/first-successful-cave-diving-rescue-claimed-in-china/ #scuba #scubadiving #scubadiver Website https://www.scubadivermag.com Instagram https://www.instagram.com/scubadiv...

5 months ago

33 minutes

Scuba Diver Magazine

Boat strike leaves diver with head wound #scubadiving #podcast

#AskMark Wild fish have been shown the ability to recognise individual divers, as long as we assist them with a few visual clues, such as the colour of our dive-gear. US manufacturer Halcyon has introduced its Symbios Ecosystem of wrist and mask-mounted integrated dive-computers, An Australian scuba diver was fortunate to be alive but sustained a deep gash in his head after being hit by a boat and there seems to be a future for the adaptive teaching of Depth Therapy https://divernet.com/scuba...

5 months ago

31 minutes

Scuba Diver Magazine

17 Rescued from Sinking Liveaboard #scuba #podcast #news

#AskMark 15% Off International eSIM Offer Use Code: SCUBADIVERMAG https://airalo.pxf.io/bO7Wy9 Reports are surfacing that 17 people had to be rescued by the Indonesian Navy after the Grand Komodo-owned liveaboard Putri Papua sank off the coast of Sorong, in Southwest Papua on Monday morning.A humpback whale entangled in ropes on a Skye fish-farm has been freed by volunteers from British Divers Marine Life Rescue. Towards the end of January, Russian mermaid Mariia Zelenina went viral after a...

6 months ago

29 minutes

Scuba Diver Magazine

Spanish Cave Closed After Fatality #scuba #podcast #news

#AskMarkUS diver Barrington Scott has set a verified Guinness World Record for the fastest time to scuba dive across all seven continents. Cartagena City Council says it is preparing to tighten access to the Cueva del Agua (Water Cave) system in southern Spain, following the death of a 37-year-old female diver there on 18 January. And an underwater habitat builder has just extended the record for longest time spent submerged. https://divernet.com/scuba-news/scuba-dash-across-7-continents...

6 months ago

33 minutes

Scuba Diver Magazine

The Threat of Hybrid Grouper: An Ecological Nightmare #scuba #podcast #news

#AskMarkThis week on the podcast, An appeal for financial assistance has gone out for what is claimed to be the only UK dive-centre offering community scuba clubs and water-skills classes to both children and adults with disabilities. Hybrid grouper fish, released into Hong Kong's coastal waters as part of a religious ritual, could be wreaking havoc on local biodiversity.https://divernet.com/scuba-diving/community-scuba-cornish-clubs-need-help/https://www.gofundme.com/f/community-scuba-clubs-...

6 months ago

29 minutes

Scuba Diver Magazine

Damning Report on Red Sea Authorities #scuba #podcast #news

#AskMarkThis week on the podcast, a fairly damning report on the Red Sea Authorities following the Sea Story sinking. A couple of new records including a photoshoot at 50m and an underwater walking distance record. And a Malaysian dive resort has had its licence officially revoked by the government.https://divernet.com/scuba-news/health-safety/efforts-to-coerce-sea-story-diver-survivors-reported-by-bbc/https://divernet.com/photography/photographers/underwater-model-shoots-just-went-into-deco/...

7 months ago

30 minutes

Scuba Diver Magazine

Innovation from AquaLung #scuba #podcast #news

#AskMarkThis week on the podcast, 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 oedemaUS dive-light manufacturer Light & Motion is closing down after 35 years in business, citing politics among “many fa...

7 months ago

33 minutes

Scuba Diver Magazine

Scuba Legend Passes #scuba #podcast #news

#AskMarkThis 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 Braz...

8 months ago

30 minutes

Scuba Diver Magazine

Record Fine for Untrained Divers Death #scuba #podcast #news

#AskMarkThis 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 sc...

8 months ago

31 minutes

Scuba Diver Magazine

Out of Test Tank Dismembers Instructor #scuba #podcast #news

#AskMarkThis week on the podcast, Eight people, including two Britons, remain missing following the sinking of the Red Sea dive liveaboard Sea Story yesterday (25 November). Four bodies are reported to have been recovered so far. Australian Diving Instruction, a PADI 5* instructor development centre in Geelong, south of Melbourne in Victoria, has been fined Aud $40,000 (£20,460) for the explosion of an out-of-test scuba cylinder that resulted in a diver's leg being blown off. A 25-year-old ma...

8 months ago

33 minutes

Scuba Diver Magazine

Recovery Starts for Lost Cave Diver #scuba #news #podcast

#AskMarkThis week on the podcast, A diver has died in a cave in the Swiss canton of Ticino, with recovery of his body now presenting a challenge to expert rescuers. A blind BBC journalist and a paraplegic amputee, both from Lancashire, are hoping to have an hour-long Red Sea dive to a maximum depth of 40m carried out as a buddy-pair recognised by Guinness World Records. After five years of work, England’s biggest seagrass-restoration project has come to a close, with its results described as ...

9 months ago

27 minutes

Scuba Diver Magazine

Body in the Net: A Fatal Oversight #scuba #news #podcast

#AskMarkThis week on the podcast, A fisherman in Greece who found the body of a snorkeller in his nets and threw it back into the sea has been found guilty of manslaughter. A liveaboard has sunk in the far southern Egyptian Red Sea, after its captain appeared to have disregarded severe weather warnings. The death of a UK rebreather diver off the south Devon coast in May was the result of “user error”, it was stated at the opening of an inquest. Bill Gavin, a founding member of the WKPP and it...

9 months ago

30 minutes

Scuba Diver Magazine

Woman Killed by Needlefish #scuba #news #podcast

#AskMarkThis week on the podcast, a new fear is unlocked as a women is killed by a flying needlefish. Breaking down BSAC’s Annual Diving Incident Report and it seems like the number of incidentshttps://divernet.com/scuba-news/health-safety/flying-needlefish-kills-italian-surfer/https://divernet.com/scuba-news/health-safety/diving-deaths-up-says-bsac-but-it-has-good-news-too/ https://divernet.com/scuba-news/unique-research-vessel-flip-destined-to-be-scrapped-has-joined-deep/https://divern...

9 months ago

37 minutes

Scuba Diver Magazine

Disconnected Hose Lead to Diver Fatality #scuba #news #podcast

#AskMarkThis week on the podcast, the remains of a diver have been found in the stomach of a shark but, relatives stress that it was not the shark that killed her. A coroner has concluded that while the death of a scuba diver in Scapa Flow was accidental, it could have been prevented had appropriate equipment checks been carried out before entering the water. A search and rescue operation was launched in Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula when a solo cave-diver went missing in one of the cenotes, and...

10 months ago

31 minutes

Scuba Diver Magazine

First Female Clearance Divers for the Navy #scuba #news #podcast

#AskMark This week on the podcast, Female clearance divers have simultaneously graduated into both the New Zealand and South Korean navies for the first time. Late Antiquity amphoras, a Byzantine anchor and an iron battle knife were among discoveries made during a recent underwater archaeological expedition in the Black Seat. And training agencies have some new thoughts on promoting diving.https://divernet.com/scuba-news/health-safety/search-for-diver-in-cornwall-called-off/ https:/...

10 months ago

27 minutes