Trapped Underwater

As nightmares go, being trapped in a small box deep underwater is probably high on many peoples' lists. But a US professor is doing this on purpose. Joe Dituri has been living 30 feet below the surface of the Florida Keys since March 1.

A video of a scuba diver rescuing a fish trapped inside a plastic packet underwater has surfaced on social media and is going viral.

Search operations for survivors of a scuba diving boat disaster off the California coast were suspended Tuesday after divers recovered 20 bodies and spotted another four to six trapped in underwater wreckage.

Another decomposed body of a miner who died inside a flooded rat-hole mine in Meghalaya's East Jaintia Hills was found today, officials said. This is the second body to be recovered since rescuers started pumping out water from the illegal mine that collapsed on December 13 last year in the north-east state where coal mining is banned. Fifteen mine...

A team sent by a Chennai-based company that specialises in submersible robotic inspections joined the operation to rescue the 15 miners trapped for a month now, inside a flooded rat-hole coal mine in Meghalaya.

The Centre informed the Supreme Court today that all appropriate steps were being taken to rescue 15 miners trapped since December 13 in an illegal coal mine in Meghalaya and Indian Navy has deployed remotely operated underwater vehicle in the operation there

Several trucks loaded with 10 heavy pumps are heading towards a rat-hole mine in Meghalaya where 15 men are trapped for three weeks. A heavy-lift transport plane of the Air Force carrying the 10 high-power pumps landed this morning at Guwahati airport. The trucks will cover a distance of 220 km to the mine in Meghalaya's East Jaintia Hills in as sh...

A treacherous rescue bid to free a youth football team trapped in a flooded Thai cave entered its second day Monday, with nine of the "Wild Boars" still inside after elite divers guided four out.

The underwater search for 12 children and their football coach trapped in a flooded cave in Thailand was halted as water levels rose amid relentless rainfall on Thursday.

Twenty four officers and sailors from the navy are now training on the worlds most advanced rescue submarines in Scotland with systems that India has sought for decades state-of-the-art technology and equipment that can be used to save sailors trapped underwater in submarine catastrophes.

A city bus ended up getting trapped in a waterlogged road in Surat, Gujarat on Thursday morning. Mobile footage showed half of the red Surat BRTS bus submerged in murky water at an underpass in the city. Luckily, no passengers were on board the bus when the incident occurred. The bus driver and a conductor managed to escape before the bus was inund...

After two days trapped in freezing cold water and breathing from an air bubble in an upturned tugboat under the ocean, Harrison Okene was sure he was going to die. Then a torch light pierced the darkness.

What happens if one of India's 15 submarines malfunctions underwater and sinks with its crew on board? As India is forced to operate an aging fleet - some over two decades old - the prospect of facing such a situation is almost real. It is perhaps to address this gap that for the first time India-US will be carrying out an exercise to rescue its tr...

As nightmares go, being trapped in a small box deep underwater is probably high on many peoples' lists. But a US professor is doing this on purpose. Joe Dituri has been living 30 feet below the surface of the Florida Keys since March 1.

A video of a scuba diver rescuing a fish trapped inside a plastic packet underwater has surfaced on social media and is going viral.

Search operations for survivors of a scuba diving boat disaster off the California coast were suspended Tuesday after divers recovered 20 bodies and spotted another four to six trapped in underwater wreckage.

Another decomposed body of a miner who died inside a flooded rat-hole mine in Meghalaya's East Jaintia Hills was found today, officials said. This is the second body to be recovered since rescuers started pumping out water from the illegal mine that collapsed on December 13 last year in the north-east state where coal mining is banned. Fifteen mine...

A team sent by a Chennai-based company that specialises in submersible robotic inspections joined the operation to rescue the 15 miners trapped for a month now, inside a flooded rat-hole coal mine in Meghalaya.

The Centre informed the Supreme Court today that all appropriate steps were being taken to rescue 15 miners trapped since December 13 in an illegal coal mine in Meghalaya and Indian Navy has deployed remotely operated underwater vehicle in the operation there

Several trucks loaded with 10 heavy pumps are heading towards a rat-hole mine in Meghalaya where 15 men are trapped for three weeks. A heavy-lift transport plane of the Air Force carrying the 10 high-power pumps landed this morning at Guwahati airport. The trucks will cover a distance of 220 km to the mine in Meghalaya's East Jaintia Hills in as sh...

A treacherous rescue bid to free a youth football team trapped in a flooded Thai cave entered its second day Monday, with nine of the "Wild Boars" still inside after elite divers guided four out.

The underwater search for 12 children and their football coach trapped in a flooded cave in Thailand was halted as water levels rose amid relentless rainfall on Thursday.

Twenty four officers and sailors from the navy are now training on the worlds most advanced rescue submarines in Scotland with systems that India has sought for decades state-of-the-art technology and equipment that can be used to save sailors trapped underwater in submarine catastrophes.

A city bus ended up getting trapped in a waterlogged road in Surat, Gujarat on Thursday morning. Mobile footage showed half of the red Surat BRTS bus submerged in murky water at an underpass in the city. Luckily, no passengers were on board the bus when the incident occurred. The bus driver and a conductor managed to escape before the bus was inund...

After two days trapped in freezing cold water and breathing from an air bubble in an upturned tugboat under the ocean, Harrison Okene was sure he was going to die. Then a torch light pierced the darkness.

What happens if one of India's 15 submarines malfunctions underwater and sinks with its crew on board? As India is forced to operate an aging fleet - some over two decades old - the prospect of facing such a situation is almost real. It is perhaps to address this gap that for the first time India-US will be carrying out an exercise to rescue its tr...