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How to Live on Liveaboards

SIMON PRIDMORE tackles all aspects of a diver’s life at sea, from avoiding arguments and sea-sickness to underwater incontinence, complaints and the vexed question of tipping. Read more...

If you enjoyed Will Appleyard’s recent Frozen In Time features about diving Baltic wrecks, here’s a coda to those adventures, as he takes time out to explore the former Soviet prison of Rummu in Estonia. Read more...

Ghostbusters UK

More and more divers are diving for a purpose, but when it comes to ghost-gear clearance you really have to know what you’re doing – as CHRISTINE GROSART does. Read more...

The Call of the Minkes

The Ribbon Reefs are a special Great Barrier Reef dive-destination at any time of the year, says NIGEL MARSH. But they are extra-special in June and July when visited by dwarf minke whales. Read more...

Shrimp Hunt in Swanage

JACK PERKS is best known as a freshwater diver but a recent sea dive in Dorset offered the chance to pursue a different rare quarry – a snakelocks anemone shrimp. Read more...

Perimeters of Ignorance

The more we know, the more we realise we don’t know – understanding that can mean the difference between life and death. Read more...

The Diver Who Likes to Leave his Mark

With one foot in the diving world and the other in the art world, Jason deCaires Taylor has carved out a unique position for himself, but who is the man behind the now famous underwater sculptures? Read more...

The Gear of the Year

Our DIVER Testers select their favourite kit from the past 12 months, ask a selection of divers for their equipment wishes, and muse on what the New Year might bring… Read more...

The Best Freedive in the World

That's one bold claim. But MARCUS GREATWOOD stands by his claim that what Menorca can offer adventurous freedivers is hard to beat Read more...

Chain of Women

LISA COLLINS volunteers to join a chain gang in the Cayman Islands… Read more...

The Unsung Reef

Australia’s corals grab the headlines, but the country’s kelp-dominated temperate reefs are at least as important and imperilled. Now they’re finally getting the restoration focus they deserve. Read more...

Nudi Collector

RICHARD ASPINALL is a nudibranch-fancier, and he doesn’t care who knows it. Satisfying his craving for new species is matched only by his need to capture their images to best effect… Read more...

The pay-off from Workshopping

Are photo-workshops in exotic locations worth the effort? Two trips in, NATASHA ROBINSON has the results to show. Read more...

You Can Be Too Careful

When we learn a discipline such as nitrox diving, it’s important that we understand fully the thinking behind it. A recent wreck dive illustrates the point. Read more...

Meanwhile, at the Surface

To non-divers, what scuba-divers do is underwater swimming, but we don’t really think of it as swimming. Read more...

In search of the best underwater photo-editing Apps

Which are the best value-for-money apps for editing your underwater photos? CHARLIE THISBY compares five contenders. Read more...

A Shot in the Dark

Where once divers studied reef- or bottom-dwelling lifeforms, with the odd glance into the blue in hopes of spotting passing pelagics, on a blackwater dive you explore by night in open ocean. Read more...

New Take for the Centenary

After all these years and so many words written about Scapa Flow, it is pleasantly surprising to read new information about the sites. Read more...

Finding The Best Dive-Logging App

In his occasional app-reviews, HENLEY SPIERS considers six ways to keep digital records. Read more...

Oceans by Numbers

Tracerco, which operates in the subsea technologies industry, crunches the data beneath the waves… Read more...

The Barracuda Dive

Many dives offer us lessons that can serve us well in future, if we choose to take note. Take Bill’s observations on a recent drift dive. Read more...

Delving Beneath Albania

Diving at a location where few have dived before is every diver’s dream. For VIC VERLINDEN, the Viroit cave is such a place – and Albania a diving attraction in the making. Read more...

Big Picture

This well-written guide, sized for portability, can only boost their chances of correctly identifying that pinniped or cetacean. Read more...

Return of the Amphibians

Marine biologist Lauren Smith has made a connection with diving history. Read more...

Fresh Water Mission Accomplished

‘Why I decided to be the first person to film every species of UK fish in inland waters,’ by JACK PERKS Read more...

Functional Slugfest

This one is all about the pictures, because the accompanying text is minimal. Still, fair enough, how far can you get into describing individual sea-slug species? Read more...

Scubapro Galileo HUD

Overall, judged purely as a dive-computer, the Galileo HUD is the business. Add the Head Up Display, and it’s genuinely the best dive-computer I’ve ever used. Read more...