In a sight never previously witnessed an orangutan uses a sharpened stick to try and spear fish.

In pictures: Orangutans go fishing
The hugely powerful creature uses fingers and toes to anchor himself on the branches of a tree overhanging the water.

The orangutan used a fishermen’s poles to try and spear the fish but didn’t quite have […]

“Hong Kong is a niche market and diving is a niche sport,” said Director of Tourism Malaysia Promotion Board for Hong Kong and Macau, Zaliha Zainuddin. “Malaysia is great value for people who are into diving and into eco-tourism.”
Tourism Malaysia has targeted Hong Kong’s scuba diving enthusiasts with a campaign promoting the country’s scuba diving […]

 
GRAND CAYMAN ISLAND:As a doctor monitored his heart and his blood and breathing, David Blaine filled his lungs with pure oxygen and prepared to hold his breath — for 16 minutes, he hoped. Blaine is a famous magician, but he insisted that this was no trick.
He was training to break […]

More than 140 mourners at a funeral in northern Thailand are reported to have been taken ill after eating a dish that appears to have contained puffer fish.
The mourners were rushed to hospital after being served soup containing fish balls bought at a local market in Nan province, the Bangkok Post reports.
They started […]

A recently discovered fish crawling in Indonesian waters in this undated photo. A University of Washington professor says the fish that crawls instead of swims and has forward-looking eyes like human could be part of an entirely unknown family of fishes. The creature sighted in Indonesian waters off Ambon Island has tan-and-peach-coloured zebra-striping. […]

Record breaker: Will Goodman had initially hoped to remain under water for 100 hours

Borehamwood diver Will Goodman has set a world record for the longest open salt water scuba dive.
Mr Goodman’s mother, Linda, confirmed her son had returned to the surface of the ocean in Gili Trawangan, Indonesia, at around 2pm (BST) today, 33 and […]

Read an edited excerpt from Raising the Dead by Philip Finch
Ghosts of the abyss: the story of Don Shirley and Dave Shaw
Don Shirley’s dive went smoothly at first.
He headed down quickly. About five minutes in, he reached 120m. He knew that Dave Shaw should now be returning to the shot line, beginning his long […]

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you plunge into the sea to ogle exotic wildlife, why not stay a while—and get an even closer view? Cave-diving engineer Bill Stone makes that possible with the most user-friendly version yet of a rebreather, a device that recycles your exhaled air, removes carbon dioxide, and adds oxygen. (A scuba device quickly burns through […]