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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...
Two Ways to make a Canadian Splash
Ali Postma and her husband Joey are working their way around Canada to document the diversity of its diving from coast to coast. She picked out two contrasting locations to give us a flavour… Read more...
At the End of the Land
Dave Peake goes full snorkel to encounter the ancient, alien yet reassuring seascape of Cornwall’s Porth Nanven. Read more...
Never mind the Threshers!
The words ‘Malapascua’ and ‘thresher shark’ have become inseparable, but it shouldn’t be the case, say Henley Spiers & Jade Hoksbergen – even without the whip-tailed wonders, this island would still be a world-class diving location. Read more...
… but I’ll never forget those Threshers!
A magical Malapascus dive leaving precious memories – and all done before breakfast. By Melissa Hobson. Read more...
World of Sponge
The decorative hallmarks of St Lucia dive-sites are its sponges – drop onto these scenic reefs and prepare for a rich slice of Caribbean marine life. Steve Weinman makes the most of his stay – and an irritable turtle adds to the merriment Read more...
Deeper into Truk
The wrecks of Truk in standard diving depths are well-documented, but what if you’re lucky enough to be there in a technical capacity? Brandi Mueller reports. Read more...
Below with Brazen
The now-protected Channel wreck of destroyer HMS Brazen was an early WW2 casualty. Stefan Panis enjoys a dive, and shares the experience along with the mystery of the purser’s safe! Read more...
Knocked out in the Park
You don’t have to be a macro photographer to get your kicks in North Sulawesi, as wide-angle man Dan Burton finds out at Bunaken. Why did he leave it so long? Read more...
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...
