UK Diving

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...

  • The sight of artefacts that originally drew the divers to the gully.

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...

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...

  • A diver descends into the base of the Caesar turret barbette.

Scapa Flow 100

Scapa diver MIKE WARD looks at the epic story behind the event, the best way to dive the Flow, and talks to Rod Macdonald, author of what many regard as the location’s definitive dive-guide. Read more...

Where Scallops Dwell

Dredging for shellfish is a scattershot method that ruins fragile eco-systems. Havens such as the protected area of Lyme Bay illustrate what we stand to lose, says WILL APPLEYARD. Read more...

40 Dives 40 Dishes

Salutay is owned by Al Wright, who was one of the UK’s first trimix divers, and his wife Freda, who is not only an accomplished trimix- and cave-diver but also a trained chef. Read more...

Josephine Willis

Let’s be honest, finding a mid-19th century wreck complete with a trove of artefacts is most divers’ dream. For STEFAN PANIS it was reality Read more...

Seasons In The Sea

In 1927 the Christiaan Huygens became the largest passenger ship ever built in the Netherlands. Furnished by famed designer Read more...

Grey Playtime

Whether on CCR, scuba or snorkel, TONY BASKEYFIELD received an enthusiastic welcome from one of the UK’s biggest Read more...

Now You See It…

The Schiedam Prize is a major 17th-century shipwreck that lies off the Cornish coast. Frustratingly, the shifting sands Read more...

5 Best of the South-West

Five days’ boat-diving out of Plymouth, 10 dives and WILL APPLEYARD, looking to record his five highlights, finds himself spoilt for choice Read more...

Freshwater Four

Will Appleyard might have been overdoing the salt water, if that’s possible, so with winter approaching he took time out Read more...