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Back in the Saddle
When too much time has elapsed since that last dive, a refresher is in order. Read more...
How we made Last Breath
The film 'Last Breath' based on an incredible but true story of saturation divers in the North Sea is now in UK cinemas. Read more...
New Britain, Old Planes
Rabaul in PNG is one of those remote, less-dived places but you will find it very rewarding – not least for its surprising aircraft wrecks. Read more...
Forgotten Wrecks of the First World War
Volunteers divers have been beavering away around the UK coast since 2014, recording wrecks such as the doomed War Knight and helping to bring their stories back to life. Read more...
Meet the Jet-Propelled Midwives
Scientists know next to nothing about how whale sharks reproduce. A recent expedition to Galapagos hoped to take a step closer to solving this puzzle. Read more...
Beyond the Yellow Train
This underworld dive isn’t everybody’s cup of tea – it’s in an abandoned mine in which the workers were long ‘kept in the dark’ about the risks of their labours, though the supervisors’ gas-masks and protective suits might have given them a clue! Read more...
Last Breath
A new film based on an incredible but true story of saturation divers in the North Sea will be in UK cinemas soon Read more...
Shooting Nemo
What makes clownfish such excellent photographic subjects? The answer is in their host anemones – and in biology. Read more...
A Miracle in Pag
Last year two men on what they thought would be a routine dive in Croatian waters made an almost unbelievable underwater discovery. Read more...
Looking Up, Looking Down, Looking Back
DAN BURTON has been reporting for DIVER for longer than most contributors, and has also been a pilot for much of that time. So we had to ask him how he felt about plane wrecks… Read more...
The Danger of Distraction
Underwater photographers can sometimes get carried away – and that’s how incidents start. Read more...
Monarch of The Channel
A nice little Channel wreck jaunt, and you never know what you might come across. In this case it wasn’t only shoes but a gold ring! Read more...
Defensive Diving Part 3: Assuming Responsibility
You don’t have to appear to others as a constant pessimist, you can keep your thoughts to yourself – but always be prepared for that worst-case scenario. Read more...
Lost Ships of the Battle of Oinousses
Turkish wreck-hunter SELCUK KOLAY makes yet another discovery, this time of two historically significant vessels – but what was this huge bell-shaped object found lying among the cannon? Read more...
The Tanks that Won
It was the Adopt A Wreck project of the year – the NAS’s Charlotte Crumpler reports. Read more...
Down the Tube
Leading cave-diver Martyn Farr gains exclusive access to one of the world’s most impressive cave-systems – the Atlantida Tunnel in Lanzarote. Read more...
The Woman Who Thinks Like a Manta
Julie Hartup made the transition from a restricted Mormon existence in Utah to becoming known as the “Manta Mom”. Read more...
Driving North
It’s not that big an island but it has a whole lot of diving going on. Following her experiences in south Tobago in October, Lisa Collins prepares to head north. Read more...
Forgotten Warbirds
A new book called The Airplane Graveyard has got us all excited in the DIVER office, so here are two extracts to give you a flavour of the very unusual diving in Kwajalein. Read more...
Elegy for an Eco-Warrior
As with Rob Stewart’s original award-winning film Sharkwater (2006), shark-finning is at the heart of this new documentary. Read more...
Defensive Diving Part 2: Deviance & Depth
The diving set-up doesn’t seem ideal but you go ahead anyway and get away with it. Perhaps it was OK after all; perhaps you were just lucky. SIMON PRIDMORE takes it from there Read more...
James Set Free
FREE DIVER James Set Free JAMES MONNINGTON, freediver, marine biologist, photographer and ex-scuba-diver, talks about his black-and-white view of ...
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Bring on the Cringe Factor
Dive Exceptional: Become the Best Diver You Can Be by Simon Pridmore Read more...
Cephalopod Universe
Octopus, Squid & Cuttlefish: A Visual Scientific Guide by Roger Hanlon, Mike Vecchione & Louise Allcock Read more...
Fast-moving Slug World
Nudibranch & Sea Slug Identification – Indo-Pacific by Terrence Gosliner, Angel Valdes and David Behrens Read more...
Singalonga Cowboy
I Just Wanna Dive (CD by Pup Morse Read more...
Where Scallops Dwell
Dredging for shellfish is a scattershot method that ruins fragile eco-systems. Havens such as the protected area of Lyme Bay illustrate what we stand to lose, says WILL APPLEYARD. Read more...
The O2 Rebreather Miracle
MARTIN STRMISKA dives HMS Perseus in the Greek islands, and in a state of mild nitrogen narcosis relives the incredible events of some 77 years earlier Read more...
