Scuba Diver Magazine Mark Newman

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 crocodile three years ago has been awarded the King’s Gallantry Medal. An Australian stripper is facing prison for diving for cocaine that Police had already confiscated and Shearwater release an air-integrated version of their Peregrine computer.https://www.scubadivermag.com/join-special-virtual-screening...

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 years in jail after his appeal failed. There’s a new subscription-based training agency out there that’s turning some heads and according to training numbers, more and more women are qualifying than ever before.https://divernet.com/scuba-news/health-safety/blazing-dive-boat-evacuation-chaotic-say-uk-dive...

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 Tobago House of Assembly rather quickly withdrew a ten thousand dollar reward for the capture of a bullshark after massive backlash https://www.scubadivermag.com/deepest-blue-hole-now-mexicos-but-how-low-does-it-go/https://divernet.com/scuba-news/health-safety/british-tourist-injured-in-tobago-shark-encou...

This week, a diver searching for fossils in a river ended a dive being pinned to the floor by an alligator, the captain of the conception boat fire has lost his bid to secure a retrial and several underwater records have been broken from freediving to dominos.https://www.scubadivermag.com/diver-ooa-at-15m-while-pinned-under-alligator/https://divernet.com/scuba-news/health-safety/dive-liveaboard-captains-retrial-bid-overturned/https://divernet.com/scuba-diving/what-happens-to-a-diver-charged-w...

This week, courts have sided with Netflix in a defamation lawsuit after a movie painted him in a bad light. A diving destination is in hot water for holding onto divers deposits and blanking them stating that they are closed for business even though their website says otherwise and the great barrier reef has just experienced it’s worst coral bleaching heatwave in history that some are describing as an underwater bushfire.https://divernet.com/scuba-news/freediving/pipin-v-netflix-freedivers-la...

This week, I’m going to be covering the death of Jared Hires who was a very well known and loved member of the diving community and general manager of Dive Rite who died this week on a dive in the Plura Cave system in Norway which is the same cave system as the 2016 documentary Diving into the unknown where a team of divers risk their lives and legal repercussions to recover the remains of their friend who also died in the cave system.Now, I’m going to be reading through the DAN preliminary a...