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22 best things to do in Orkney

The Times/The Sunday Times 31 Mar 2025
Dive the Scapa Flow ... It’s now considered one of Europe’s premier wreck-diving sites. Local scuba school Kraken Diving offers guided dives from £175, or simpler snorkel safaris around the more easily accessible sites from £60.
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A Submarine Full of Tourists Is Missing

Futurism 27 Mar 2025
Deep Dive. Yet another submarine has gone missing — though this time, it wasn't headed to visit the wreck of the Titanic at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean ... Its vessels can dive to maximum depths of ...
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Chilling similarities between Egypt submarine disaster and doomed Titan tourist voyage to see Titanic which ...

The Daily Mail 27 Mar 2025
The sub had made 23 dives over the course of 2021 and 2022, reaching the wreck of the Titanic 13 times ... A dive log book recorded 118 technical faults, ranging from thrusters failing to batteries dying.
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Egypt’s tourist submarine sinks: Why deep-sea tourism faces growing safety concerns

The Times of India 27 Mar 2025
The accident occurs more than a year after the OceanGate Titan submersible implosion on a dive to the Titanic wreck site, with even more raising safety concerns around deep-sea tourism.Why deep-sea ...
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How Egyptian submarine disaster is the latest tragedy to hit Red Sea tourists following deadly ...

The Daily Mail 27 Mar 2025
These vessels should be designed to allow tourists to safely live on them for long stretches of time while they take part in scuba diving trips ... The wrecked Egyptian diving boat was seen lying on its side as its brought to shore for an investigation.
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The world's most breathtaking underwater attractions from a museum with 500 incredible sculptures to a ...

The Daily Mail 26 Mar 2025
The SS Thistlegorm was a British military ship that sunk during World War II, and is now described as 'one of the top five wreck dives in the world' by Lonely Planet ... of the world's top 10 wreck dives.
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Historical Australia’s WWII Bomber Discovered Underwater in Greece

Greek Reporter 26 Mar 2025
The wreck was ... In 2024, the Greek technical diving group AegeanTec, which specialises in exploring deep-water wrecks beyond the reach of recreational divers, located the wreck in 61 metres of water.
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Historic RAAF Baltimore Bomber Wreck Greece

Greek City Times 26 Mar 2025
The wreck of Baltimore FW282, located at a depth of 61 meters by the Greek technical diving group AegeanTec in 2024, was confirmed as the lost RAAF aircraft by History and HeritageAir Force (HUWC-AF).
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Father of British woman who died during Albanian diving trip says he is devastated after ...

The Daily Mail 25 Mar 2025
Rebecca Gannon was diving on a sunken wreck off the seaside town of Sarande in southern Albania ... He dived down onto the wreck of a ship off the coast and retrieved several black bags containing he drug and brought them to the surface.
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Frank Persico, longtime dive boat captain and mechanic, dies at 82

Newsday 18 Mar 2025
As a longtime dive boat captain, instructor and engine mechanic his fellow owners relied on, Frank Persico was a decades-long mainstay of the Long Island diving community ... He also learned to dive in his spare time.
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Marine life reappears at Larnaca’s protected seabed five years after artificial reef project began

Philenews 16 Mar 2025
What distinguishes this site from Cyprus’s five other artificial reefs is that it houses the largest sunken vessel (ELPIDA) and features the only wreck suitable for free diving (LEF 1).
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LAND & SEA

Calhoun Times 16 Mar 2025
While researching an upcoming trip to Palau, a tiny island nation dot-ting Micronesia's western edge, I found endless information about its famed mushroom-shaped Rock Islands and spectacular diving sites, including over 50 World War II wrecks ....
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$3 million for a sinking ship? Bay County TDC wants SS United States sunk closer to its coast

News Herald - Panama City 14 Mar 2025
"Access to this wreck will help PCB regain its status as a premier dive location while bringing in a demographic of tourists who respect the natural environment, which helps to maintain the beauty of our area.".
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From Tin Cans to AI: How a century of deep-sea filmmaking revolutionized ocean exploration

Popular Science 13 Mar 2025
In the 1940s, Cousteau’s co-invention of the Aqualung (SCUBA) revolutionized diving and underwater exploration ... His 2003 documentary Ghosts of the Abyss revealed the wreck’s incredibly well-preserved remains.
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