Mauritius is the perfect setting for a scuba-diving holiday. But for Jeff and Julie Byrne, the dream turned into a nightmare when their tour boat vanished.

Movie star Jason Statham has revealed his failure to compete at the Olympic Games remains a "sore point".

She's a multiple gold medallist at several European Championships, winning events both as a part of a team and as an individual. But

Freedive world champion William Trubridge has broken the world freedive record with a 102-metre dive in the Bahamas. It's sweet redemption for Trubridge following the heartbreak of a failed 2014 record attempt. It is his 18th world record.

The New Zealand Olympic team will have one entrant in the diving competition at the Rio Olympics. ELIZABETH CUI BIRTHDATE: 12 August

New Zealand will send a diver to the Olympics for the first time in 24 years.

To celebrate the release of the heart-warming Pixar film Finding Dory, we've rounded up the world's top diving destinations for you to explore.

The family of a student who died at Intueri's diving school in 2014 will receive $150,000 from the company.

Kiwi freediver William Trubridge chases his own 101m world record plunge.

The mother of a Kiwi teenager who died while freediving in Australia at the weekend says her son had a passion for diving and spearfishing

A Kiwi teenager has died while free diving with three friends off the Australian coast yesterday.

Dresden is a city in the east of Germany. It will be at the forefront of Nathan Brown's mind as he prepares to compete there at an international youth diving competition late next month.

The freedom of diving is no longer restricted to able-bodied people, writes Sarah Ell.

Don't miss out on the world beneath the water's surface just because you were born with legs, writes Beth Tierney.

It was merely fanciful, of course, to imagine that going to meet William Trubridge, the world record holding freediver, would be like going to meet a merman.

A diver has died off the coast of North Cape today.

An inexperienced diver was left alone at sea after his companion moved their boat more than 4km away to go fishing.

Teenage diver Liam Stone hopes he'll be primed for a career-best performance by the time he gets to the Glasgow Commonwealth Games in July.

A simple error of judgment led to a diving tragedy that claimed the life of Mark McLeod off the coast of Hahei on Sunday.

Surf lifesavers are launching their summer patrols over Labour Weekend, but a mixed bag of weather could deter some would-be beachgoers from taking a splash.