Wrecks, General
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...
1919 and Beyond
JOHN LIDDIARD considers the continued diving legacy of the Great War after the Armistice. Read more...
Dive the Pourquoi Pas? Why not?
More than 80 years after the sinking of 20th-century French explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot’s ship in Iceland, NICOLAS JOB dives the wreck of the Pourquoi Pas? 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...
How I found 125-year-old Oil Tanker Still Leaking
SELCUK KOLAY is always below the surface, finding new and often significant wrecks. A recent find was of an oil tanker sunk by famed British sub HMS Perseus in the Aegean in WW2. Read more...
New Britain, Old Planes
Rabaul in PNG is one of those remote, less-dived places but you will find it very rewarding – not least for its surprising aircraft wrecks. 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...
Looking Up, Looking Down, Looking Back
DAN BURTON has been reporting for DIVER for longer than most contributors, and has also been a pilot for much of that time. So we had to ask him how he felt about plane wrecks… 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...
Lost Ships of the Battle of Oinousses
Turkish wreck-hunter SELCUK KOLAY makes yet another discovery, this time of two historically significant vessels – but what was this huge bell-shaped object found lying among the cannon? Read more...
The Tanks that Won
It was the Adopt A Wreck project of the year – the NAS’s Charlotte Crumpler reports. Read more...
Forgotten Warbirds
A new book called The Airplane Graveyard has got us all excited in the DIVER office, so here are two extracts to give you a flavour of the very unusual diving in Kwajalein. Read more...
The O2 Rebreather Miracle
MARTIN STRMISKA dives HMS Perseus in the Greek islands, and in a state of mild nitrogen narcosis relives the incredible events of some 77 years earlier Read more...
Solved – the St Ives Mystery
MARK MILBURN turns detective once again to tackle a wreck conundrum in Falmouth Bay spanning two world wars Read more...
Oldenburg through two World Wars
How often can you do a deep wreck dive just off the shore? Read more...
1918
It’s the final year of World War One, but the destruction of shipping continues through to November. 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...
Nantaise Days
Prolific Turkish wreck-hunter SELCUK KOLAY tells how he identified his latest discovery in the Aegean Sea – a steamship built in Britain Read more...
The U-Boat Coast
The WW1 U-boats at Pendennis have been dived for many years, by many people. The site is probably the second most popular shore-dive in Cornwall. Read more...
Art Treasures From A Shipwreck
In 1927 the Christiaan Huygens became the largest passenger ship ever built in the Netherlands. Furnished by famed designer Read more...
Vanderbilt’s Warrior
Warrior II, sunk off Portland Bill in the English Channel, has drawn deep-divers since its discovery in the early 1980s. Read more...
Return To The Donegal Classics
A battleship, a liner and a cargo vessel, none of them less than 155m long or 64m deep, are the big three that make north-western Read more...
The Secrets Of The Sveti Pavao
Examining the seabed off Croatia, two scuba-divers discovered a well-preserved porcelain vase. Only the richest people Read more...
Dive / Bomber
US dive-teams are working around the world to find the remains of armed forces personnel missing in action from past Read more...
Views of the Volos
Lefteris Reef in Greece has become the graveyard for many ships over millennia, but few can have as intriguing a backstory Read more...
The Valentine Tanks
Unique ‘floating tanks’, relics of World War Two, can be dived from Swanage, says WILL APPLEYARD. Ideal for an early-season Read more...
