scuba

ROATAN, Honduras - " Breathing underwater was a strange sensation. It was even stranger because I've never been scuba-certified.

Stranger yet that my wife - who is reluctant to even duck her head under water - was happily swimming 15 feet underwater behind me as we plumbed the depths on this island off the coast of Honduras.

A British Virgin Islands judge has ruled that a Rhode Island man must serve at least 25 years for killing his wife while scuba diving in the Caribbean in 1999.

A prosecutor opened the trial of a Rhode Island man on Wednesday by accusing him of killing his wife while scuba diving in the British Virgin Islands to pursue a romance with another woman.

Scuba shop owner David Swain and his wife of six years, Shelley Tyre, traveled to Tortola in 1999 for what was to be a romantic Caribbean getaway.