Underwater Lost Treasures

Delmarva Now - As crews demolish Ocean City’s Boardwalk to its sandy base this winter, treasure hunters armed with metal detectors are arriving in droves, seeking valuables lost between the planks over decades. “This year, there’s a lot of people coming down,” said Roland, 64, who declined to give his last name. “I guess they heard the finds that were occurring last year, so they’re all hoping...

The Mirror -  A British man is feared to have drowned after he failed to surface while scuba diving at a holiday resort in Egypt. Steve Cracknell was having a routine diving lesson with his instructor off the coast of Sharm el-Sheikh when the pair went missing and a rescue mission has failed to find them. Mr Cracknell, 46, from Yeovil, Somerset, is thought to have been on holiday with his wife...

Biomed Me - An estimated 100,000 recreational scuba divers around the world have diabetes. But low glucose levels under water can lead to erroneous decisions or even unconsciousness. Given that scuba divers always have buddies, the risk extends to a second person as well. Norway, Australia, New Zealand and a number of other countries prohibit diabetics from scuba diving, whereas Sweden, the UK...

Godwin Kelly -  The monster fish, which has ruined dozens of lightweight fishing rigs under the Port Orange Bridge on the Dunlawton Causeway for more than a month, has been caught and identified. Daytona Beach's Chris Higbee, 28, caught a goliath grouper estimated at more than 75 pounds early Wednesday morning under the river span. Since the goliath is a protected species, Higbee could not...

James Pomfret -  Hong Kong authorities began inspecting the wreckage of a leisure ship on Wednesday amid questions over how a collision with a commuter ferry in relatively calm weather could have killed 38 people in one of the city's worst accidents in recent decades. The exact circumstances surrounding the crash remain unclear, but television footage showed the party ship suffered a massive...

Susan Cocking -  One of Broward County’s popular scuba diving sites — the Ancient Mariner artificial reef — just got a little more interesting. The 70-foot deep shipwreck off Deerfield Beach now is decorated with a large, colorful steel sculpture of a coral reef. Members of the South Florida diving community deployed the underwater ornament Wednesday in honor of Ray McAllister, retired Florida...