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.

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

Shark cage divers and parasailers should be safer under new voluntary guidelines for avoiding risks in the water tourism sector.

The police national dive squad will today search for a snorkeler who went missing from a Hawkes Bay beach.

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.