Bill Matthies got the call in mid-December 1973. A trawler carrying 11 reels of electrical cable capsized on Lake of the Woods that fall. The boat captain lost his life and the reels were missing.

British rescue diver Josh Bratchley had been exploring the Tennessee cave with a group over the last few days but did not return when they all resurfaced on Tuesday Joelle Goldstein is a Senior News ...

The Annual Lake Wallenpaupack Polar Plunge will take place 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Jan. 1, 2026, at 1st Klas Marina. Participants will take the plunge into the icy waters of Lake Wallenpaupack to raise ...

Juan Heredia, a veteran rescue diver, is continuing the search for a missing swimmer in Monterey Bay, Robert Handa reports.

When John Volanthen was 14 years old, he found himself standing before a cave in the South of England. The passageway ahead was full of water and he could travel no farther. But something about the ...

GAINESBORO, Tenn. (WTVF) — A trapped diver from the United Kingdom has been safely rescued Wednesday evening in Jackson County. Josh Bratchley was rescued just before 7 p.m. at the Mill Pond Cave in ...

One by one, firefighters donned their dry suits and diving equipment and slipped below the ice of Big Sandy Lake on Jan. 11 to practice rescuing a victim during ice rescue training for the Fort McCoy ...

WARRI, Nigeria — He had survived three days in an upside down tugboat at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean and then he saw lights in the water. Air bubbles rose around the cook as he squatted in an air ...

For most people, the idea of scuba diving in miles of pitch-black tunnels with no wiggle room is the stuff of literal nightmares. But as veteran British cave diver Rick Stanton told The Post, “I do it ...

A rescue diver was airlifted to a hospital after trying to save a man who died while swimming in a waterfall at a popular hiking area, North Carolina officials say. Divers with the Linville Fire ...

A dive team from Iona McGregor Fire District was also dispatched to the scene. With the dive team enroute to the scene, a ...

A cave diver from the UK, who was part of the team involved in saving the Thai soccer team last year, needed rescuing after becoming trapped in a cave in Tennessee. Josh Bratchley went missing Tuesday ...