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Things fall apart
I can’t quite understand it. How did that happen? Every item of my scuba kit was fine when I put it away. Read more...
The Hawaiian snorkelling deaths mystery
Detective work following a spate of peculiar fatalities in the Pacific off Hawaii suggests that a new risk-awareness – and getting the design of the humble snorkel tube spot-on – could be a matter of life or death. Read more...
Free and squeezy
Freediving – it's basically snorkelling with good PR. It involves holding your breath, often to the point of semi-suffocation. What’s so free about that? Read more...
The new abnormal
The desperate dash for a dive is on – but where and how? Read more...
Scandi Noir
This is not IKEA’s cheerful “the wonderful everyday”. Read more...
Our European Tour – Part 3
In the next part of their European Tour Swedish film-makers Linn Venneberg and Mattias Granberg hit the Iberian peninsula. If you haven’t dived there, you might be in for a surprise… Read more...
Our European Tour – Part 2
Swedish film-makers Linn Venneberg and Mattias Granberg tour Europe in their campervan, initially diving on Sweden’s own west coast. Part 2: Time to head south-west and start crossing borders. Read more...
Our European Tour – Part 1
Two Swedish film-makers currently travelling around Europe for 15 months in a campervan with their two dogs to discover the continent both above and below the surface. Part 1: Slow start in Sweden. Read more...
The Hazardous Crew
For almost 40 years West Sussex divers have been keepers of the flame of an English shipwreck from the early 1700s, describing it as a site that just keeps giving. Read more...
The Long Game
Continuing his tour of some of the best elements of Scottish diving, Ross McLaren takes us on a tour of Loch Long on the west coast. Read more...
Backyard Babbacombe
He has moved from the Coral Triangle to the West Country but does Henley Spiers regard it as a comedown in terms of diving? Not a bit of it, as he now has an iconic British site on his doorstep. Read more...
Guns in the gully
We last heard from Ben Dunstan when he shared his diving experiences exploring Cornwall’s flooded mines. But when conditions allow he looks for shipwrecks, and with the 150-years-lost Boyne he struck lucky recently. Read more...
Scottish Star Turns
Ross McLaren presents short videos on the BBC’s The Social extolling the joys of scuba in Scotland. We asked him for some examples… Read more...
The Scuba Fix
Sometimes you just need to hear those three words to feel that everything is right with the world. We’re going diving! Read more...
Back in the Air… back in the Swim
The vaccination programme is well underway and it’s time to start thinking about shaking the moths out of your dive gear and checking the time left on your passport. Gill Flaherty offers her six top tips for planning dive travel in 2021. Read more...
Farnes – First Impressions
It’s British diving at its most iconic, off the coast of Northumberland – words & photos by first-timer Henley Spiers. Read more...
Lessons from lockdown
With so much time being spent in our homes, it’s become fashionable to ask ourselves: what have I learned during the lockdown? Read more...
Inland Sites Diver’s Guide 2021
The year of coronavirus caused many divers who would normally slip away to warmer waters to consider options closer to home. Read more...
Easing into UK drysuit diving for a relationship built to last
Regular UK divers might take it for granted, but for those more accustomed to warmwater ways the prospect of exploring home seas can seem daunting. Read more...
Immersed
I was such a fun dive! Well, until we all got horribly lost and nobody could find the boat. Read more...
Tempted by Temperate Seas
Locked down in Spain, Will Appleyard shared dreams of UK diving through social media. So where will your first post-pandemic dive be? Read more...
Getting Started in UK Diving
Previously Will Appleyard was busy selling the joys of UK diving to any doubters out there – now, with UK diving the only practical possibility for many of us, he too gets practical. Read more...
The Elephant in the Pool
If buoyancy control is the key to good diving, why is it not a core component of commercial entry-level diver training? John Kean airs his views Read more...
Conspiracy!
"Are you willing to be vaccinated?” asked a friend. My jaw dropped. Read more...
Mining a Forgotten Past in Cornwall
BEN DUNSTAN is carving a niche in the West Country, where he and his team explore old mine-workings – and get very wet in the process. Read more...
20 Best Wrecks in the World
JESPER KJØLLER has dived more iconic wrecks than most of us, so here, in alphabetical order from Andrea Doria to Zenobia, is his best of the best. Read more...
Beware of the Corner-Cutters
We all know that we get what we pay for, but sometimes we can’t resist what appears to be a stone bargain. Read more...
Home Sweet Anemone
Anemonefish might get all the attention, especially of underwater photographers, but where would they be without their photogenic hosts? And what of all the other creatures that call them home? asks Brandi Mueller. Read more...
