Long Island divers say August and September are prime months for beginners. Scuba students Aashna Sharma, 12, and Delaney Donato of Massapequa get ready for their first open water dive at Pryibil ...

Tiedemann’s Diving Center on 56 Gardiners Avenue in Levittown offers scuba diving lessons for certification. The scuba shop, owned by Ed Tiedemann and his wife Jeanne, opened in 1981 as a… ...

As a longtime dive boat captain, instructor and engine mechanic his fellow owners relied on, Frank Persico was a decades-long mainstay of the Long Island diving community ...

Last spring, Liar’s Saloon, one of the last no-frills watering holes left in Montauk, the rapidly developing beach town at the tip of Long Island’s East End, looked like it was gone for good.

Niihau’s first people were the ancestors of seafaring Polynesians who arrived in double-hulled sailing canoes. They were ruled by Hawaiian nobility, and the island’s coveted shells are named ...

Cannon Osentowski, a 2019 graduate of Arcadia High School, is one of six Army and two Navy divers who completed dive school Aug. 24.

The 14-year-old has competed for the Great Kills Swim Club during Staten Island Interclub Swimming & Diving competition each summer and placed first at every duel meet and championship since 2016.

Dive into history. In the 18th century, St. Eustatius was a free port, making it one of the Atlantic’s busiest and a major hub for the slave trade (the island was colonized by the Dutch in the ...