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Routine Matters
We’ve all been there – we get distracted during the build-up to the dive, and some vital kit component is overlooked. Read more...
Super Saturday Chesil Cove
The sun is shining, the wind is low, the vis is amazing – unless you hate pebbles you take a weekend trip to Chesil. Read more...
Where The Whale Sharks Are
When Stella Diamant arrived in Madagascar a few years ago, little was known about the island’s whale-shark aggregations. Her recently published study, which shows that the country is a feeding hotspot for juveniles, could put it on the map. Read more...
All Creatures Great and Small
CATH BATES heads for Malapascua for a series of early starts to see the famous thresher sharks, and finds that technical diving gives the world-famous location a whole new dimension (and it already had quite a few!) Read more...
Swim Like a Cave Diver
This story takes place on a dive liveaboard that ran four dives a day and imposed a 60-minute maximum dive-time on each one. Read more...
Diving on the Shoulders of Giants
A manta ray called Mathilde was just one big reason why SIMON MORLEY will never forget his recent trip to Socorro, San Benedicto and Roca Partida – the main Revillagigedo islands Read more...
Pearl of the Peak District
You’re based in Belgium, but what’s to stop you popping over to Bakewell for the weekend to explore a flooded chert mine? Read more...
Blacktips of Aliwal
When you spend a month in their company you can get to know a blacktip shark community pretty well, as EDOARDO SPACCA found in South African waters Read more...
Beyond the Comfort Zone
For 27-year-old Lukas Mueller, freediving with the ocean’s apex predator is a day-to-day reality. MELISSA HOBSON met him to hear his story – photos other than the portrait by the man himself Read more...
Hurricane Shark Quest
DAN BURTON is a seasoned diver and acclaimed underwater photographer, yet three of the most iconic shark species had always eluded him. It took one day in the Red Sea to fix that Read more...
Jersey Shore
In the USA it’s the entire coast of New Jersey state, but for divers in the Channel Islands it’s an opportunity for some Bonaire-style freewheeling from site to site. WILL APPLEYARD boards the ferry once again… Read more...
Josephine Willis
Let’s be honest, finding a mid-19th century wreck complete with a trove of artefacts is most divers’ dream. For STEFAN PANIS it was reality Read more...
The Attribute of Altruism
This story takes place on a dive liveaboard that ran four dives a day and imposed a 60-minute maximum dive-time on each one. Read more...
Out of Air – With Plenty Left to Breathe
Back-rolling into the water – by this stage, you want to be sure that all’s well with your equipment. Read more...
Celebration of Mobulids
Guide to the Manta and Devil Rays of the World, by Guy Stevens, Daniel Fernando, Marc Dando & Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara. Read more...
Nantaise Days
Prolific Turkish wreck-hunter SELCUK KOLAY tells how he identified his latest discovery in the Aegean Sea – a steamship built in Britain Read more...
Delving Deeper into Deep Stops
Beware anyone who tells you they know what your ‘correct’ decompression profile should be, because they almost certainly don’t, warns MARK POWELL. Read more...
The U-Boat Coast
The WW1 U-boats at Pendennis have been dived for many years, by many people. The site is probably the second most popular shore-dive in Cornwall. Read more...
The Whale and the Wildlife Man
Great white and whale sharks were the warm-up acts and the start of a learning curve for TV presenter Patrick Aryee. Read more...
Seasons In The Sea
In 1927 the Christiaan Huygens became the largest passenger ship ever built in the Netherlands. Furnished by famed designer Read more...
All those 3800m dives
The Titanic Expeditions: Diving to the Queen of the Deep 1985-2010 by Eugene Nesmeyanov Read more...
Follow That
Marine Biology for the Non-Biologist by Andrew Caine Read more...
Pop Goes The Marine Life
Eye of the Shoal: A Fishwatcher’s Guide to Life, the Oceans and Everything by Helen Scales Read more...
Mermaiding is no Game
From hating swimming and suppressing her childhood dreams to what turns out to be a surprisingly challenging underwater job Read more...
Alex Hildred: Mary Rose Diver
When she took up scuba 40 years ago, Alexandra Hildred had no idea that her life would become inextricably linked with a Tudor warship Read more...
The Exploration of Izvor Licanke
An unexplored sump in a Croatian cave presented an irresistible challenge to CHRISTINE GROSART, but there would Read more...
Sharks Assemble in the Med
An entire Mediterranean country is a shark sanctuary and hardly anyone outside knows about it Read more...
Smaller Side of the Maldives
MAX EATON finds himself on an eco-resort island notably lacking in the pelagic promise for which the Maldives is famed – and is surprised to find how much he Read more...
