Scuba Diving

Dive into the depths of the unknown with content dedicated to the whole wide world of scuba diving. From mesmerising marine-life encounters through wreck exploration – including our renowned Shipwreck Tours – underwater archaeology and cave-diving, this section also covers scuba diving technique and training advice, the sport’s celebrities and much more.

There are great reads here for everyone from novice to the most experienced of scuba divers.

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This summer the Starfish Enterprise diving team headed for the North Sea to hunt down the 'shallow' (50-60m) wrecks of the world's biggest naval engagement, the Battle of Jutland. Innes McCartney, whose great-uncle was a boy-gunner who took part in the WW1 battle and was rendered deaf for life, tells the story of the groundbreaking expedition.
Big Guns Of Jutland
Hugo beside the deck-winch on the Bowbelle
Bowbelle, Wreck of souls
I passed him my slate and he pencilled £10 on it
Lost wife, saw barracuda
The cannon's cascabel (HE) - HMS London wreck theft
Two Arrested Over HMS London Wreck Theft – Bronze Cannons and Artefacts Seized
Royal Navy destroyer HMS Quorn makes her way through the ice-cold waters of Kaafjord in search of X5
The X factor
Kendall McDonald, a former Fleet Street editor
Q & A: Wrecks
Divers inspect the fabulous sight of the telegraphs on the bridge of the Transylvania
The subterranean world of Transylvania
Tony drifts slowly in and around the 6in gun-barrels. Even at 70m-plus, sunlight shines over the portside gunwales
Sleeping Giant
Malta wrecks map
Top wrecks of Malta & Gozo
Long keel-pins exposed but still secure on the starboard bow
Identity crisis
Diver Roman emerges from an opening on the Schleswig Holstein
The battleship that started World War Two
A low section of Murra El Elevyn
The Nullarbor & the big ones
Deep Atlantic wrecks in startling visibility - the main picture shows the White Star liner Carinthia
Deep in the Northern Approaches
Familiar Aga full-face masks may not be as televisual but they are less tiring than the high-volume Japanese masks.
Shooting Oceans: Behind the Scenes and Beneath the Waves of BBC’s ‘Oceans’ Series
Stevie Adams sketch of the wreck.
All ‘mouth – the new wreck hotspot Northern highlights
The bar with intact stools is in the Bolshoi Lounge.
Vodka on the rocks
Mark Bullen photographed at the moment he discovered the main mast bell
For whom the bell tolls
In peacetime HK Komet was the 3200 ton Norddeutcher Lloyd ship Ems, built in 1937 by Deschimag, Bremen.
Komet that turned fireball
Snorkellers participating in the HMS Wager expedition, searching for remnants of the 18th-century shipwreck in Patagonian waters
HMS Wager Diving Expedition: Exploring the Lost 18th-Century British Warship
Scapa Flow in 3D
SCAPA FLOW IN 3D
Dawning
British Divers Discover Yolanda Wreck at 145m Off Sharm El Sheikh
FACT OR FICTION
Fact or fiction
Forty years ago this month, two divers made history by reaching 1000ft in open ocean in a diving chamber called Atlantis. If only they hadn't opened the hatch. Bernard Eaton, a close friend of one of the divers, Peter Small, recalls what happened
The Atlantis Affair: A Deep Dive into Triumph and Tragedy at 1000 Feet
Sling your hook!
SLING YOUR HOOK: Mastering Mighty Currents and Techniques in the World’s Strongest Dives
The last adventure
The LAST adventure: Ric Stanton and Jason Mallinson’s Groundbreaking Dive into Emergence du Ressel
Cover of Dive Dorset guide book
Book & Video Review: Dive Dorset by John and Vicki Hinchcliffe
Veronica Robbins
RECEIVER OF WRECK – VERONICA ROBBINS

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