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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
To Victoria Falls & Beyond
This year divers penetrated further than ever before into Mexico’s challenging, mysterious Nacimiento del Rio Uluapan cave system. Read more...
Come to Grief in the West
An attractive coffee-table package that could make a welcome gift for wreck-divers. Read more...
How to Find a Legitimate Seller When Buying a Second-Hand Boat
Trying to find a legitimate seller when searching for a new boat can be difficult. Read more...
The Black Panther Lives On
Like the Black Panther itself, this book ticks all the boxes. Read more...
As Intriguing As Ever
I must admit that my heart sank a little at the prospect of reading yet another book about Lt-Cdr Lionel Crabb, the fallen angel who has inspired a shelf-full of tomes since the 1950s. Read more...
Bleak Expectations
I have watched many documentaries bemoaning the state of the marine environment over the years, and have come to expect them at least to end on an uplifting note. Read more...
‘Prepare to be Amazed!’
MARTYN FARR has had more than his share of great underwater experiences, but only now has he come to dive ‘the most beautiful caves in the world’. Read more...
Shelf Appeal
British-waters divers won’t go far wrong with this handsome book as their guide. Read more...
Nineteen to Intrigue
It’s probably fair to say that awareness of wreck-diving in the five Great Lakes is not high on this side of the Atlantic, but in North America these bodies of water command a big following of divers. Read more...
Under Pressure
What is it like to be a saturation diver? Certainly YAQUB AL-OMOUD seems in no hurry to hand over to the machines. Read more...
Essentially Entertaining
I’d go so far as to say it’s the most amusing book about the sub-aqua scene I’ve read since the heyday of Andy Blackford, and I know that because I kept laughing out loud as I turned the pages. Read more...
Primer for Future Divers
This is an invitingly illustrated book for bright nine-year-olds-and-up, designed to inform and enthuse them about the underwater world. Read more...
A Tale of Two Mines
STEFAN PANIS enjoys delving into mines, and he has been diving two old workings on the continent – a German pit that once produced slate, and one in Belgium from which black marble was extracted. Read more...
Two-Way Push
The book is a great read, though it could have done with a better title. Yes, it is about recovering gold, but when the salvage turned to the U-boats I felt a little lost before eventually being put back onto the “gold route”. Read more...
Josh Boggi – Diving to New Depths
Josh Boggi recently became the world’s first triple-amputee Rescue Diver – MELISSA HOBSON met him to find out how he achieved this incredible feat. Read more...
Big in the Indian Ocean
Underwater Eden – The Marine Life of Seychelles, by Christophe Mason Parker & Joe Daniels. Read more...
Diving their socks off
ss Thistlegorm – The Ultimate Visual Guide to the World’s Greatest Shipwreck (iBook), by Simon Brown, Jon Henderson, Alex Mustard & Mike Postons. Read more...
Thai Cave Rescue: The Chalk, The Cheese
I was amazed when the first two books on the subject were sent for review in December, fewer than five months from the conclusion of the event. 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...
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...
