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Surface Interval is our weekly round-up: five stories from the diving world, in ninety seconds. Scuba, freediving, dive travel and ocean advocacy, every Sunday. This week: Former staff at One Ocean Diving, a Hawaii shark-tour company, say trainees worked unpaid for months and signed noncompetes on day one; the company disputes the accounts, says trainees will now be paid, and no charges have been filed. The United States will hold its first deep-sea mining auction off American Samoa on 19 Nove...

Surface Interval is our weekly round-up: five stories from the diving world, in ninety seconds. Scuba, freediving, dive travel and ocean advocacy, every Sunday. This week: Women across freediving are speaking out about harassment and assault, with many accounts involving men in authority; Molchanovs has cut ties with a brand collaborator, who denies the allegations, and Freediving Instructors International is reviewing reports about one instructor. No charges have been filed. A dive boat sank ...

Surface Interval is our weekly round-up: five stories from the diving world, in ninety seconds. Scuba, freediving, dive travel and ocean advocacy, every Sunday. This week: Eight scuba divers, an instructor and seven customers, were swept 14km (9 miles) from their dive site off Japan's Hachijo Island on 3 October and lifted out by Japan Coast Guard aircraft after more than five hours; all were conscious and went to hospital as a precaution. Alexey Molchanov set a new men's constant-weight world...

Surface Interval is our weekly round-up: five stories from the diving world, in ninety seconds. Scuba, freediving, dive travel and ocean advocacy, every Sunday. This week: A second tourist has died on a Discover Scuba dive at Tioman Island in Malaysia, eighteen days after the first, and the Malaysia Scuba Diving Association is calling for a National Recreational Diving Safety Committee to set minimum operator standards. A University of Warsaw team has completed twenty-two dives on a seventeent...

Surface Interval is our weekly round-up: five stories from the diving world, in ninety seconds. Scuba, freediving, dive travel and ocean advocacy, every Sunday. This week: One of the volunteer divers who helped bring twelve boys and their football coach out of Thailand's Tham Luang cave in 2018, Canadian technical diver Erik Brown, has died at 44. Six more countries ratified the High Seas Treaty at the UN this week, taking the total to 100 and setting up January's first Conference of the Part...

Surface Interval is our new weekly round-up: five stories from the diving world, in ninety seconds. Scuba, freediving, dive travel and ocean advocacy, every Sunday. This week: A freediving instructor trainer is held in Sorong after a video showed a diver spearing a critically endangered hawksbill inside a Raja Ampat no-take zone. Indonesian instructors traced his movements and immigration stopped him at the boarding gate. AIDA has suspended him and SSI has opened a case. He denies being the di...

Every week something happens underwater that you should know about. And every week, most of it passes you by. Surface Interval is our answer to that. Five stories from the diving world, in ninety seconds. Scuba, freediving, dive travel, and the ocean itself. DeeperBlue has covered this beat since 1996. Thirty years of reading every competition result, every recall notice, every court filing, so you don't have to. Records broken. Gear worth knowing about. Trips worth booking. And the sto...