#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://diver...
Apr 25, 2025•22 min•Season 3Ep. 113
#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/senator-liz-bol...
Apr 18, 2025•31 min•Season 3Ep. 112
#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.scubadivermag.com...
Apr 11, 2025•32 min•Season 3Ep. 111
#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 anonymous ...
Apr 04, 2025•25 min•Season 3Ep. 110
#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 Support the show Website https://www.scubadivermag.com Instagram https://www.instagram.com/scubadivermagazine/ Faceb...
Mar 14, 2025•27 min•Season 3Ep. 109
#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 Support the show Website https://www.scubadivermag.com Instagram https://www.instagra...
Mar 07, 2025•33 min•Season 3Ep. 108
#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-ne...
Feb 21, 2025•32 min•Season 3Ep. 107
#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 fish...
Feb 07, 2025•30 min•Season 3Ep. 105
#AskMark US 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-brings...
Jan 31, 2025•33 min•Season 3Ep. 104
#AskMark This 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-...
Jan 24, 2025•30 min•Season 3Ep. 103
#AskMark This 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/...
Jan 17, 2025•30 min•Season 3Ep. 102
#AskMark This 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 oedema US dive-light manufacturer Light & Motion is closing down after 35 years in business, citing politics among “many factors” cont...
Jan 10, 2025•34 min•Season 3Ep. 101
#AskMark This 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 Brazilia...
Dec 13, 2024•31 min•Season 2Ep. 100
#AskMark This 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 scub...
Dec 06, 2024•32 min•Season 2Ep. 99
#AskMark This 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 man ...
Nov 29, 2024•33 min•Season 2Ep. 98
#AskMark This 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 “i...
Nov 08, 2024•28 min•Season 2Ep. 97
#AskMark This 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 its ...
Nov 01, 2024•30 min•Season 2Ep. 96
#AskMark This 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 incidents https://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://divernet.c...
Oct 25, 2024•37 min•Season 2Ep. 95
#AskMark This 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 t...
Oct 18, 2024•31 min•Season 2Ep. 94
#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://divernet.co...
Sep 27, 2024•28 min•Season 2Ep. 93
#AskMark This week on the podcast, The United States is set to become the largest artificial reef. The SS United States is a 300m ocean liner that’s being decommissioned and plans to sink her to become an artificial reef in recreational depths is exciting news for divers. A rare sighting of sunfish in the Red Sea around the Brothers has made the news and it another excuse to book your next Red Sea liveaboard. And a diver has died collecting ghost gear helping to clean up a shipwreck. https://div...
Sep 20, 2024•30 min•Season 2Ep. 92
#AskMark This week on the podcast, Professional Dive guides in the Phillipines are in hot water after a tip off that some are accepting payment for engraving names in coral, leading to authorities to quadruple the reward money for any information on the culprits. LL cool J has recently told the Guardian that the anamatronic shark in Deep Blue Sea almost drowned him. And a former Navy diver has decided to become the first to swim the English channel, on his back. https://divernet.com/scuba-news/c...
Sep 13, 2024•31 min•Season 2Ep. 91
#AskMark This week on the podcast, some divers deserve a good telling-off for committing heresy. Some decommissioned warships have been sunk for us divers to play with and several dive deaths around the world https://divernet.com/scuba-news/conservation/carved-up-coral-shocks-bohol-divers/ https://www.scubadivermag.com/divers-help-themselves-to-champagne-on-protected-wreck/ https://divernet.com/scuba-news/wrecks/malta-wreck-divers-win-long-sought-protection/ https://www.scubadivermag.com/thai-wa...
Sep 06, 2024•33 min•Season 2Ep. 90
#AskMark This week on the podcast, James Bond has donated limited edition motorcycles to the RNLI, The British Sub Aqua Club is asking divers to prepare to clean our oceans in September. And apparently all of us are extreme sportsters as scuba diving ranks number one in a poll ranking extreme sports people would like to try but, don’t think they’ll ever get to try https://www.scubadivermag.com/daniel-craig-donates-limited-edition-motorcycles-to-rnli/ https://www.scubadivermag.com/bsacs-great-bri...
Aug 30, 2024•38 min•Season 2Ep. 89
#AskMark This week on the podcast, The wreck of the cruiser HMS Hawke, sunk by German submarine U-9 early in World War One with the loss of 524 officers and crew, appears to have been discovered off Scotland's north-east coast by the Lost in Waters Deep wreck-researchers and Gasperados technical dive team. And The Sydney diving community is in shock after local divers came across a gruesome discovery on Friday night. https://divernet.com/scuba-news/dive-team-finds-notable-ww1-warship-at-110m/ ht...
Aug 23, 2024•32 min•Season 2Ep. 88
#AskMark This week on the podcast, a poor lass from America lost her leg after a shark bite while she was swimming after a dive. An incredibly rare encounter with a sixgill shark in Canada. The GhostNet Campaign Celebrates a record haul in honour of paul watson and Germany has issued and arrest warrant for a diver over Nord Stream blasts. https://www.scubadivermag.com/shark-takes-girls-leg-on-post-dive-swim/ https://divernet.com/scuba-news/marine-biology/diver-enjoys-rare-shark-encounter-in-bc/ ...
Aug 16, 2024•30 min•Season 2Ep. 87
#AskMark This week on the podcast, The first compensation payments for expenses incurred in the deaths of 34 people who died when the Californian dive liveaboard Conception caught fire in 2019 have been ordered by a US federal judge – though whether its captain Jerry Boylan is in a position to foot the bill remains unclear. Cradles for baby corals designed to frustrate toothy predators such as parrotfish could be deployed as part of a drive to rehabilitate reefs hit by disturbance events such as...
Aug 09, 2024•30 min•Season 2Ep. 86
#AskMark This week on the podcast, a pair of lost divers were rescued thanks to their dive lights, a POV video of a basking shark hit by a boat and there’s a dive site up for sale if you have some spare change https://divernet.com/scuba-news/health-safety/dive-lights-saved-couple-on-38hr-drift/ https://divernet.com/scuba-news/capernwray-put-up-for-sale-again/ https://divernet.com/scuba-news/marine-biology/basking-shark-boat-strike-captured-under-water/ https://www.scubadivermag.com/women-dive-to...
Aug 02, 2024•29 min•Season 2Ep. 85
#AskMark This week on the podcast, the real-world sequel to Cocaine Bear: Cocaine Shark, I’m sure somebody is working on the film rights as we speak. Paul Watson, founder of Sea shepherd and more recently the Captain Paul Watson Foundation since the split has been arrested by Danish Police in Greenland on an arrest order from Japan. And a rather controversial freediving record because the diver was being pulled along by a state of the art carbon fiber DPV. https://news.sky.com/story/amp/sharks-o...
Jul 26, 2024•32 min•Season 2Ep. 84
#AskMark Divers discover Bronze-Age Nordic Axe #scuba #news #podcast This week on the podcast, lots of underwater artefacts including a record breaking bronze age axe and lots of whale strandings recently, whales have had a rather rough week https://www.scubadivermag.com/norwegian-celt-axe-dive-site-sparks-speculation/ https://www.scubadivermag.com/divers-big-glass-haul-in-bulgaria/ https://www.scubadivermag.com/this-is-huge-worlds-rarest-whale-washes-ashore/ https://www.scubadivermag.com/mass-p...
Jul 19, 2024•29 min•Season 2Ep. 83
