UK Diving

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Forgotten Wrecks of the First World War

Volunteers divers have been beavering away around the UK coast since 2014, recording wrecks such as the doomed War Knight and helping to bring their stories back to life. Read more...

Monarch of The Channel

A nice little Channel wreck jaunt, and you never know what you might come across. In this case it wasn’t only shoes but a gold ring! Read more...

The Tanks that Won

It was the Adopt A Wreck project of the year – the NAS’s Charlotte Crumpler reports. 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...

a salute to… HMS otranto

For the USA the sinking of HMS Otranto was the worst troop-transport disaster during World War One. Read more...

Marbles lost & found

19th-century Dutch steamer the Castor was carrying crates of antiquities when it sank in the English Channel in 1894, Read more...

Super Saturday Chesil Cove

The sun is shining, the wind is low, the vis is amazing – unless you hate pebbles you take a weekend trip to Chesil. Read more...

Pearl of the Peak District

You’re based in Belgium, but what’s to stop you popping over to Bakewell for the weekend to explore a flooded chert mine? 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...