Man, 24, is arrested for murdering woman as police divers comb River Severn

A 24-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder as police investigate a trail of blood found along a road. Three sites in Worcester have been cordoned off as search teams comb the River Severn for a woman’s body.    A house is being searched by police and forensic experts found what appear to be … Read more

Indonesia plane crash: Divers recover black box from Sriwijaya 737

Indonesian navy divers today found a black box from the crashed passenger jet which plunged into the Java Sea three days ago with 62 people on board.  The Boeing 737’s flight data recorder was found on Tuesday with authorities saying it will take two to five days to extract the information on it as they … Read more

Scuba divers rescue shark with a hook stuck in its mouth that has been trapped by fishing line

Heartwarming moment scuba divers rescue a shark with a hook stuck in its mouth and pinned to the seabed by broken fishing line Scuba divers discover a shark stuck to a fishing line in Mornington Peninsula VIC Footage shows the divers struggling to release the Port Jackson shark Eventually the shark was freed from the … Read more

Divers searching for Amber Room find chests near wreck of Nazi warship

Divers searching for the legendary Amber Room treasures – looted by the Nazis and missing since World War II – say they have discovered chests lying around the wreck of a German steamer that sank in 1945.  The diving team found the wreck of the Karlsruhe off the Polish coast in October, 75 years after … Read more

Jaws-ome encounter: Hungry 15ft shark rips into a sailfish head just feet away from scuba divers

Jaws-ome encounter: Hungry 15ft shark rips into a sailfish head just feet away from scuba divers By Aliki Kraterou For Mailonline Published: 16:03 GMT, 16 November 2020 | Updated: 16:55 GMT, 16 November 2020 A group of divers had a close encounter with a hungry 15ft shark as it chomped on a huge fish head … Read more

Police divers search Hampstead Heath pond for body of missing man

Police frogmen were today searching a pond on Hampstead Heath for the body of a man who went missing eight years ago after he failed to show up at his daughter’s 18th birthday party. Robert Duff, then 37, was reported missing in January 2013, with his family describing his disappearance as ‘completely out of character’. … Read more

Spanish divers perform daredevil stunt

Tandem diver throws partner over his head as they plunge off a 33ft-high board in ‘world first’ synchronised stunt Carlos Gimeno and Nico Garcia Boissier developed the stunt on Gran Canaria  Gimeno carries his partner on his back before leaping off the 33ft high platform Gimeno performs a forward roll while Garcia completes a simultaneous … Read more

Hundreds evacuated as Polish divers begin operation to defuse 12,000lb RAF ‘Tallboy’ bomb

Hundreds of residents were evacuated on Monday as Polish military divers began a delicate operation to defuse a massive World War II bomb in a channel near the Baltic Sea. The five-tonne device, which was designed by British aeronautical engineer Barnes Wallace, was nicknamed ‘Tallboy’ and also known as an ‘earthquake bomb’. It was dropped … Read more

Nazi warship discovered by divers near Poland ‘could contain lost Amber Room riches’

A WWII ship which divers think could contain the legendary Amber Room has been found at the bottom of the Baltic sea. The wreck of the German cruiser Karlsruhe was discovered off the Polish coast by divers exploring the area in search of the ship which was sunk in April 1945. Tomasz Stachura from the … Read more