Underwater diving

"Antikythera Wreck: The Adventure Continues," on show at the Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation in Piraeus through March 18, comprises new discoveries made at the underwater archaeological excavation of this important ancient shipwreck. The artifacts are displayed immersed in water tanks as they undergo desalination, while the show also includes discoveries from previous excavations.

Greek fisherman Vagellis Lagonas from Sidirounda, Chios broke the world record for catching the heaviest common dentex. The amateur fisherman caught the larger 11kg fish on July 26 at a depth of 35 metres and his feat was subsequently verified by the International Underwater Spearfishing Association. “It was a great dive from 22 to 35 meters.

A 54-year-old spearfisher was killed by a speedboat Wednesday off the coast of Kallithea in Halkidiki, northern Greece. According to port authorities, the man was brought to surface bleeding heavily and taken to shore by the speedboat driver before an ambulance rushed him to a nearby health center where he was pronounced dead.

A 54-year-old spearfisher was killed by a speedboat Wednesday off the coast of Kallithea in Halkidiki, northern Greece. According to port authorities, the man was brought to surface bleeding heavily and taken to shore by the speedboat driver before an ambulance rushed him to a nearby health center where he was pronounced dead.

World free diving female champion Derya Can has broken a Guinness World Record with a 120-meter horizontal apnea dive in an ice-covered lake. 

Holding her breath under the 35-centimeter ice-coated Weissensee lake in Austria, Can managed to swim 120 meters in 1 minute 47 seconds. 

In November 2007, scuba diver Vassilis Mentogiannis joined a dive team from the Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities on a mission to inspect the expansion of a port at Stratoni, Halkidiki, in northern Greece.

A 36-year-old man was recovering in a clinic on the island of Myconos yesterday after a boat hit him while he was spearfishing between the coast of Myconos and Delos.

According to the local coast guard, the diver had taken all the necessary precautions to alert others to his presence.

An Airbus A300 will be sunk in the Aegean Sea off Ku?adas? to serve as a reef and attract diving tourists in the resort town as part of a municipal project.

The airplane, which was brought to the Güzelçaml? neighborhood of the town via five trucking rigs after being dismantled in Istanbul, will be sunk in the Ku?adas? gulf on May 28.

Divers from the Bulgarian town of Primorsko have arranged copies of paintings by Leonardo da Vinci at the bottom of the Black Sea.

Copies of the "The Last Supper" and "Mona Lisa" are the first paintings in the underwater exhibition.

The paintings are waterproof and fishes can be seen swimming around them, private bTV station informs.

For the first time in the world, choreographers Sophie Bulbulyan (France) and Apostolia Papadamaki (Greece) in collaboration with Lia Haraki (Cyprus) and artists from 10 countries, present an underwater dance-visual performance , ‘Drops of Breath’.

The audience will be able to attend the performance underwater sat on underwater benches.