Scuba diving classes at YMCAs around the Chicago area are filling up faster than ever before. Undoubtedly, the new lightweight and lower-priced equipment contributes to the sport`s surge in popularity ...

There`s a new kind of adventurer taking to the oceans. Once the preserve of the spear-carrying underwater warrior, diving now has become a favored activity for photographers, environmentalists and ...

Nobody ends up in Palau by accident. It’s not on the way to anyplace. It has no great museum of art. No Eiffel Tower. No Roman Colosseum or Westminster Abbey. It’s even hard to find on a map, since ...

Scuba diving, a hobby that relied on inner tubes and lawn mower engines for equipment 20 years ago, is increasingly taking a high-tech approach.Some of the advances in equipment will be showcased this ...

For three hours yesterday, Thomas “T.C.” Schilling and nine other members of the Y-Scuba Divers club picked up trash, not their trash, but other people’s trash on the eastbound berm of Interstate 78 ...

It was just before dawn in the Gulf of Mexico, a few miles off the Hernando County coast. Roy Knight, of Orlando, and Mike Watkins, of Mount Dora, were dropping anchor at a favorite fishing spot ...

More than 600 scuba divers and not a few fish were treated to a three-hour concert amid scenic coral reefs at the Sixth Annual Underwater Music Festival on Saturday. Selections broadcast into the ...

LAUDERDALE-BY-THE-SEA — A vacationer was hospitalized in critical condition on Wednesday after she was pulled unconscious from the ocean where she was scuba diving, police said. The woman, 62, whose ...

Like any other diver, Earl Booth has plenty of stories to tell about his experiences under the sea. But because he is president of the Virgina Seals dive club, he gets to tell them more often than ...

Robert Stubberfield doesn’t look like your normal scuba diver. After all, he’s 72 years old. But he is a diver, has been since the 1970s, and this summer, he is secretary of the Virginia Seals, one of ...