Australian navy divers have suffered minor injuries from a sonar pulse by a Chinese navy vessel. Here’s what that means and how underwater sound can hurt divers.
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An expert explains some of the best and worst case scenarios facing the missing commercial watercraft.
Caleb Lewis’ play, named for a popular but treacherous diving cave, is a sumptuous look at the beauty – and danger – of diving.
Diving without oxygen tanks requires you to enact some very weird and very strange and not all that well understood physiological feats just to stay alive.
Scientific fieldwork that happens underground and underwater in spectacular but dangerous caves opens a window on a largely unknown world.
The choke factor is visible in tournament-style athletics competitions, and should teach managers about incentives.
The possible culprits are: a sudden algae bloom; a change in pool alkalinity; or a chemical reaction in the water. How do these cause a change in the colour of the water?
Africa has a number of excellent scuba diving sites, but these must be maintained sustainably to keep attracting different divers.
Diving in many parts of Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia now costs a little more than it used to – but you might be happy to discover why.
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Professor, James Cook University
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Fisheries Economist, Oceans and Atmosphere, CSIRO
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Post-doctoral researcher in Tourism Research in Economic Environs and Society, North-West University
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Associate professor, University of Sydney
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Auckland University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, Cambridge Judge Business School
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Professor of Marine Biology, Texas A&M University
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Consultant Anaesthetist and Professor of Public Engagement and Innovation, Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy, UCL
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Professor, Australian Centre for Field Robotics; Director of the Digital Sciences Initiative, University of Sydney
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Director, Centre for Marine Science & Technology, Curtin University
