Twelve divers died or disappeared during scuba expeditions off the Izu Peninsula between 2013 and 2022, according to Japan Coast Guard figures. Four were off the Jogasaki Coast, five off Cape ...

Seventy-five years ago, hundreds of interned Japanese pearl divers were deported from Australia at the end of World War Two. It largely ended a once-lucrative industry in Queensland’s Torres Strait.

Today’s scuba-diving equipment is based on their patent. Murakami worked to improve the treatment of Japanese immigrants as a leader of the internment camp, but he died of chronic myocarditis in ...

In 1944 he used Japanese surface-supplied equipment to collect algae off San Diego’s coast. Several years later, in 1947, Frank Haymaker used a similar surface-supplied diving helmet to make ...