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What are Marine Paints?
Ferries, boats, ships, other water vehicles, as well as other structures that are generally exposed to water use waterproof marine paints or marine coatings. The special paints give them protective layers against moisture such as rain, freshwater, saltwater, or brackish water. Offshore oil rigs are coated with marine paints as well to prevent the metal from rust and corrosion. Read more...
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...
Prison Break
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...
