Panels & reports
Scientific diving practice, Baltic wreck work, cave projects, rebreather use in cold water, and how public aquaria talk about wild stocks.
Glbal
Diving
Conference
2026
Kiel, Germany
November 2026
Join the Global Diving Conference for a weekend with the world’s most active divers, leading researchers and expedition explorers. The two days in Kiel run panel discussions, field presentations, and evening meet-and-greet rooms where those conversations keep going.
Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel · Baltic coast · two conference days
Why Kiel
A harbour city that already thinks in salt water
Kiel sits on the Förde, at the mouth of the Kiel Canal, with a working navy yard, a marine science faculty and ferry lanes to Scandinavia. The Global Diving Conference returns here because the room is an hour from cold Baltic wrecks and a short walk from people who study them.
Days are split between plenary talks and smaller breakouts. Evenings are for the banquet, short films and the kind of introductions that usually happen on a boat deck.
The meeting is built for working divers as much as for people who write papers: scientific diving teams, wreck and cave explorers, photographers, instructors, and the labs at Kiel University. If you already hold a ticket, finish registration on the registration form.
Poster floor
Open-house boards through both days. Bring a project, a conservation brief, or a chart from last season’s survey.
Short films
Cave, wreck, reef or other. Selected pieces screen at Saturday’s banquet. Eight minutes, one story.
Who should come
Delegates who want the full lecture hall should use registration. Partners or friends who only want the banquet, films and any advertised harbour walk can register as guests on the same form — they do not take a seat in the plenary.
Poster teams and short-film makers send work through Submissions. Manufacturers, training agencies and research groups who need a stand should look at sponsorship.
What the weekend holds
Saturday opens with scientific diving, Baltic wreck corridors and how warming surface water changes cold-water plans. Afternoon breakouts cover green-water photography, cave work at Castleguard, and thresher shark field methods. The banquet screens Diving Quickies — shorts of eight minutes or less.
Sunday stays with medicine, rebreathers in temperate water, and Kiel University’s underwater archaeology. Optional Project Baseline workshops sit on Friday morning and Sunday afternoon; the Sunday workshop cannot be combined with the breakout pair.