Scuba Diver Magazine Mark Newman

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 social mediahttps://divemagazine.com/scuba-diving-news/saudi-arabia-offers-to-buy-part-of-sharm-el-sheikh-from-egypthttps://www.scubadivermag.com/get-the-kettle-on-join-bite-backs-big-brew-for-the-blue/https://www.scubadivermag.com/orca-body-slammer-fined-for-stupid-behaviour/https://www.scuba.com/p-atmb2xd...

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...