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Splash Cold Water on Your Face and Your Body Flips Into 'Seal Mode'

Dip your face in cold water and, without deciding to, your body flips into seal mode — slowing your heart, rerouting your blood, even giving you a red-cell transfusion. It's the reflex...

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🤿 Underwater Mates 12 July 2026

Check Your Regulator: Apeks Recalls XL4, XL4+ and Ocea Second Stages

A voluntary safety recall is underway for select Apeks XL4, XL4+, and Ocea regulator second stages, over a defect that...
🤿 Underwater Mates 12 July 2026

A Polish Freediver Just Swam 270 Metres On One Breath — A New World Record

Magdalena Solich-Talanda broke the Dynamic Bi-Fins world record on the opening day of the World Apnea 2026 Pool Championships in...
🤿 Underwater Mates 11 July 2026

PADI Women's Dive Day 2026 Is Pairing Celebration With Real Citizen Science

PADI Women's Dive Day returns on 18 July 2026, now paired with a citizen science push for shark and ray...
🤿 Underwater Mates 05 July 2026

"Rescue Diver Ready" Wants Preparedness to Be a Habit, Not Just a Certification

A new industry-wide initiative launched this June is asking divers to treat rescue-readiness as an ongoing practice rather than a...
🤿 Underwater Mates 30 June 2026

The Dwarf Minke Whales Are Back on the Ribbon Reefs, and Divers' Own Photos Are the Data

Dwarf minke whale season is underway on the Great Barrier Reef's far-northern Ribbon Reefs this June and July, and more...
🤿 Underwater Mates 18 June 2026

A 22-Pound Silver Bar Just Surfaced From the Atocha — the First in 27 Years

Off Key West, treasure hunters pulled a 22.5-pound silver bar from the wreck of the Nuestra Señora de Atocha —...
🤿 Underwater Mates 07 June 2026

French Polynesia Just Put 520,000 Square Kilometres of Shark-Filled Ocean Off Limits to Industry

President Moetai Brotherson announced a new fully protected zone around the Austral, Marquesas and Western Society Islands, pushing French Polynesia's...
🤿 Underwater Mates 05 June 2026

New Tracking Data Shows PNG's Reef Mantas Don't Flee Monsoons — They Dive Into Them

A three-year satellite-tagging study in Papua New Guinea's Samarai Islands found that reef manta rays respond to monsoon season not...

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