Newly minted teenager Tamai becomes Japan's youngest national diving champion
First-year junior high school student Rikuto Tamai became Japan's youngest national diving champion on Monday, the final day of the national championships. Tamai, who turned 13 on Sept. 11, won the title with 498.50 points at Ishikawa Prefecture's Kanazawa Pool. According to the Japan Swimming ...
Men's synchronized divers Ken Terauchi and Sho Sakai on Saturday became the first Japanese to qualify for next year's Tokyo Olympics in any sport. The 38-year-old Terauchi, already a five-time Olympian, and his 26-year-old teammate punched their tickets to the Olympics by finishing seventh in ...
Month under the Med: French divers launch daring deep-sea expedition
A team of French divers took to the sea off Marseille in a canary yellow capsule on Monday to spend a month exploring the deep waters of the Mediterranean, without decompressing until the very end. Laurent Ballesta, the marine naturalist and underwater photographer leading the ...
Rikuto Tamai becomes Japan's youngest indoor diving champion
Although it will not earn him a berth at the world championships, 12-year-old Rikuto Tamai announced his name as one to watch on Sunday after winning Japan's indoor diving championship. The 143-cm Tamai, a first-year junior high school student, won with 474.25 points at Tokyo ...
Can dolphins teach humans how to come up for air?
A look at new dolphin research may help Japanese pearl and seafood divers and other free divers learn more about countering decompression sickness.
Scuba diving in Japan: Beneath the sea, a paradise of color and life
A carpet of sand stretches into the distance below me. As clear and still as the water, the light seems muted, creating a peaceful, subdued scene. Surrounding each rocky feature are small oases of life. At one, there are two nudibranchs (sea slugs) and, as ...
Sho Sakai secured an Olympic berth for the first time in his career when he finished among the top 16 in the men's 10-meter springboard at a World Cup meet on Monday. Sakai, 23, scored 379.25 points to place 16th in the semifinals at Maria ...
A body in a diving suit has been found just off the coast of Java, the Japanese Consulate General in Surabaya on Indonesia's main island of Java said, citing information from authorities. The gender and nationality of the body had yet to be confirmed, the ...
Sand, sea and stars on idyllic Akajima
Back in 1972 when I first lived on Denman Island in the Georgia Strait of British Columbia between Vancouver and Vancouver Island, I was one of about 300 residents. By the time I left 25 years later for Japan, its population had just topped ...
