Five divers, who were swept away during a dive off Komodo, Indonesia have been found after managing to reach a remote beach on an island 25 miles away. 

Worried that their rescue might take days, the group began scavenging for shellfish to survive and were forced to throw stones to drive off a komodo dragon - one of the large, aggressive lizards native to the area that are capable of killing human beings.

A 1930s vessel that sailed the Sir Francis Channel for more than ten years will be sunk as a artificial reef in Virgin Islands’ waters. The announcement by the BVI Scuba Association (BVISA) confirms Premier Ralph O’Neal’s permission to obtain the Windjammer S/V Flying Cloud and sink it for the enjoyment of Virgin Islands’ divers.

31 people licensed to cull lionfish 

Lionfish have decimated areas of the Caribbean and recently their numbers have been multiplying around Bermuda. A group of 31 volunteers has now been issued special licenses by the Ministry of the Environment and Sports to use scuba equipment to cull the invasive Lionfish which are threatening Bermuda's reef ecosystem and commercial fishing.   

After operating for 13-years, financial losses have forced closure of scuba diving at Bikini Atoll. 

The problems are due to the inability of the national carrier Air Marshall Islands to get passengers to and from Bikini in the past eight months when both its planes were crippled with mechanical problems, coupled with high fuel prices.

Richard Neely, 38, from the UK, and partner Alison Dalton, 40, an American, drifted for 19 hours off Australia's Great Barrier Reef as rescuers failed to spot them. 

They tied themselves together as they drifted for nine miles after surfacing too far from the boat they had dived off.

Crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster planci) have reduced Green Island Bay’s coral cover by as much as 60% since 2007. The bay harbours one of the Philippines’ few remaining populations of dugong.

Treasure hunting divers have recovered a priceless artefact 32 miles off Key West as they follow the debris trail of a Spanish galleon that sank off the Florida Keys more than 380 years ago.