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News round-up
The winners of the Underwater Tour photography competition, new liveaboards for the Red Sea and the Maldives, and octopus with a bad attitude.
DAN Medical Q&A
The Divers Alert Network experts discuss diving after chemotherapy, and retinopathy of prematurity.
Australia
PT Hirschfield is excited to dive an entire fleet of British World War One J-class submarines in Melbourne.
Fiji
Diveplanit’s Deborah Dickson-Smith shares her experience at this little-known divers’ paradise at the southern tip of Fiji’s Coral Coast.
Indonesia, part two
Walt Stearns concludes his epic voyage to Alor aboard the Arenui luxury liveaboard.
Mustard’s Masterclass
In this instalment, Alex Mustard turns his attentions towards the topic of Wide Angle Macro.
Diving with…
PT Hirschfield chats to marine-life specialists Dr David Robinson, Dr Asia Armstrong and Dr Chris Rohner.
Divers Alert Network
First of a two-part article looking at Delayed Surface Marker Buoys, or DSMBs.
TECH: Spain, part one
Cave diver Chris Jewell heads to the Picos de Europa in Spain to take part in the Ario Cave Project.
Australia
The Great Barrier Reef officially ends just south of Lady Elliot Island, but off Brisbane is a reef that could easily be included in the largest reef complex in the world – Flinders Reef.
Papua New Guinea
Don Silcock waxes lyrical about the underwater delights that can be found in the waters around Kavieng in PNG.
What’s New
We take a look at some new products hitting the markets in 2023, including OceanPositive hoodies from Fourth Element, a filter for the SeaLife Sport Diver smartphone housing, two regulators from Mares, and a host of handy accessories from Nammu-Tech.
Test Extra
Editorial Director Mark Evans takes the Mares EOS dive light line up for a spin, focusing on the EOS 32LRZ, the EOS20LRZ, and the EOS10LRW/LRZ.
Conservation Corner
News on how a Maldives resort has teamed up with the Olive Ridley Project to protect turtles.