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Two and a Half to Bandos

A two-year-old along for the ride was no bar to diving for Federica Squadrilli Carr, but her son was far from the only non-diver at one of the Maldives’ oldest resorts. Read more...

Breaking the Chain

It takes confidence to call a dive, but perhaps we should all take more notice of the cave-diving approach to safety, suggests SIMON PRIDMORE Read more...

‘Prepare to be Amazed!’

MARTYN FARR has had more than his share of great underwater experiences, but only now has he come to dive ‘the most beautiful caves in the world’. Read more...

Rust, Flora & Fauna

STEVE DOVER has been diving La Manga – the Sandbar of the Minor Sea – and is a convert to the region’s fiercely protected attractions. Read more...

Light Show

MELISSA HOBSON wasn’t sure what to expect on her first fluo night-dive in Madagascar, but she was anticipating fireworks. Read more...

The Technical Diving Revolution – part 1

MICHAEL MENDUNO is the man who coined the terms ‘technical diving’, as well as ‘tekkie’. In the first of a three-part series, the US diver traces the origins and development of the trend-setting arm of the sport. Read more...

Dive the Pourquoi Pas? Why not?

More than 80 years after the sinking of 20th-century French explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot’s ship in Iceland, NICOLAS JOB dives the wreck of the Pourquoi Pas? Read more...

Mermaid at the Museum

MERMAID DEEPBLUE is back, this time getting a tad chilly in the Canary Islands, though her fellow-models don’t feel the cold. Underwater photography by ARTURO J TELLE Read more...

Scapa Flow 100

Scapa diver MIKE WARD looks at the epic story behind the event, the best way to dive the Flow, and talks to Rod Macdonald, author of what many regard as the location’s definitive dive-guide. Read more...

Crystal Blue, Midnight Black

HENLEY SPIERS & JADE HOKSBERGEN cross over to the dark side during a rewarding trip to Anilao. Read more...

To Divemaster and Beyond

Tell a commercial diver training agency that you want to be an instructor and it will extend a warm welcome, says SIMON PRIDMORE. Just don’t kid yourself that you’re submitting a job application – you’re buying a product. Read more...

Shelf Appeal

British-waters divers won’t go far wrong with this handsome book as their guide. Read more...

Adventures in Ringflection

HENLEY SPIERS was looking for a new challenge in underwater photography, and his quest began in a hardware store. Read more...

Nineteen to Intrigue

It’s probably fair to say that awareness of wreck-diving in the five Great Lakes is not high on this side of the Atlantic, but in North America these bodies of water command a big following of divers. Read more...

Under Pressure

What is it like to be a saturation diver? Certainly YAQUB AL-OMOUD seems in no hurry to hand over to the machines. Read more...

Daylight

DIVER’s freediving consultant Marcus Greatwood had been trying to capture the spectacular image below for some time. Read more...

Every One’s a Winner

An image capturing the exact moment a pack of grey reef sharks catch and devour a parrotfish has seen British photographer Richard Barnden named Underwater Photographer of the Year 2019. Read more...

Essentially Entertaining

I’d go so far as to say it’s the most amusing book about the sub-aqua scene I’ve read since the heyday of Andy Blackford, and I know that because I kept laughing out loud as I turned the pages. Read more...

Primer for Future Divers

This is an invitingly illustrated book for bright nine-year-olds-and-up, designed to inform and enthuse them about the underwater world. Read more...

How I found 125-year-old Oil Tanker Still Leaking

SELCUK KOLAY is always below the surface, finding new and often significant wrecks. A recent find was of an oil tanker sunk by famed British sub HMS Perseus in the Aegean in WW2. Read more...

A Tale of Two Mines

STEFAN PANIS enjoys delving into mines, and he has been diving two old workings on the continent – a German pit that once produced slate, and one in Belgium from which black marble was extracted. Read more...

Reduce, reduce, reduce!

Everyone knows that minimising the amount of weight carried is a diver’s holy grail, but there are practical limits in the quest to down-weight. Read more...

Two-Way Push

The book is a great read, though it could have done with a better title. Yes, it is about recovering gold, but when the salvage turned to the U-boats I felt a little lost before eventually being put back onto the “gold route”. Read more...

Josh Boggi – Diving to New Depths

Josh Boggi recently became the world’s first triple-amputee Rescue Diver – MELISSA HOBSON met him to find out how he achieved this incredible feat. Read more...

Big in the Indian Ocean

Underwater Eden – The Marine Life of Seychelles, by Christophe Mason Parker & Joe Daniels. Read more...

Diving their socks off

ss Thistlegorm – The Ultimate Visual Guide to the World’s Greatest Shipwreck (iBook), by Simon Brown, Jon Henderson, Alex Mustard & Mike Postons. Read more...

Senior Moments

As divers get older, if they’re sensible rather than getting bolder they learn to tailor their diving to their capabilities. But eventually there may come a time to take stock. Read more...