Challenging with a small sea

The North Sea is littered with wrecks, and being comparatively shallow allows technical divers plenty of time to explore them. Leigh Bishop rides the waves in luxury aboard a Belgian charter-boat that's made to measure more...

The wreck hunters

Mike Ward and his team undertake a Red Sea wreck-hunt of epic proportions. No, really! more...

Treasures of Latvia

Live ammo, Enigma machines, space-station controllers - you may not have considered the possibilities of diving clear Baltic waters, but there's more to Latvia than stag weekends, says Dmitri Gorski. Photos by Alex Dawson more...

The story of Iron Annie

A mystery German aircraft from World War Two has come to light in the Black Sea. Ukrainian diver Andrey Nekrasov is part of the team that has been fighting the elements to reveal its story more...

The subterranean world of Transylvania

Could an ocean liner blessed with awesome visibility 135m down off the north coast of Ireland be the best wreck dive in the British Isles? Leigh Bishop thinks so, and he has been lucky enough to dive the Transylvania more than once more...

Sleeping giant

HMS Manchester lies off Tunisia in 85m of water - MATT OUTRAM recently led an expedition to explore it. Photography by Chris Simons more...

As the years go passing by

Howard Sawyer takes a cool, hard look at the business of diving wrecks on which people have died.
Pictures by John Bantin. more...

Identity crisis

The attraction of wrecks to divers is often enhanced by a glamorous back-story. What happens, however, when a wreck is known to be historically significant, but its name is forgotten? A Channel ghost ship proves irresistible for Leigh Bishop more...

The battleship that started World War Two

The Schleswig Holstein sailed into a harbour near Gdansk on an apparent courtesy visit, only then to fire on the Polish garrison. These, as it turned out, were the opening shots of WW2. Marcin Trzcinski dives an historic battleship wreck more...

The making of a Wreck Tour

DIVER's Wreck Tours have become something of an institution over the past 10 years, allowing divers to see in full UK wrecks that in cold, dark reality can be seen only bit by bit. John Liddiard explains how it's done more...