Elisabeth Easther speaks to the owner/operator of Paihia Dive Craig Johnston.

A former Kiwi Olympian landed a 163.4kg black marlin, the first to be speared in New Zealand waters.

Watch: As soon as his head broke the surface, diver falls unconscious and sinks down into the deep ocean.

A search is under way to find a diver who failed to surface yesterday morning.

Three experienced divers went for a dive this morning but one did not surface.

The giant November 2016 earthquake has snapped the top decks from a sunken Soviet cruise liner in the Marlborough Sounds.

Inexperience and a solo ascent contributed to a scuba diver's drowning death.

WARNING - GRAPHIC PHOTO: A fishing trip almost had a grim ending for a man, who ended up with a spear through his head.

Readers discussing the holiday toll have suggested the solutions lie in law improvement rather than law enforcement.

Scientists taking a toll of the damage done to the Great Barrier Reef say large parts of formerly pristine coral has died.

The search continues for a diver missing off Canterbury's Banks Peninsula.

William Trubridge plunges to depths where light, sound and smell do not penetrate.

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

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For many, it's the fish that make a dive site remarkable-often the best dives have been when underwater visibility has been low, as a result of plankton in the water.

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.