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News round-up
Mass coral-breeding methods unveiled, Master Liveaboards move into Red Sea and the Maldives, second episode of Generation Sea Change, and tragic death of Thai rescue boy.
DAN Medical Q&A
The Divers Alert Network experts offer advice on middle ear barotrauma.
Australia
Jayne Jenkins stays closer to home this month, and makes the short journey up the east coast to the picturesque Nelson’s Bay.
Indonesia
Byron Conroy is spellbound by the fabled dragons of Komodo, but also the stunning underwater scenery and marine life, on a liveaboard trip through the Indonesian national park.
Papua New Guinea
Milne Bay was the first place Don Silcock ever visited in Papua New Guinea, and even after many years and several return trips, his fascination with the diverse area endures to this day.
Divers Alert Network
The DAN team recount the tale of a diver who was rescued after failing to check his tank was fully open.
TECH: Mexico
Kerrie Burow travels to Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula for the 2023 Wetpixel/Under the Jungle cave photography workshop.
Our World-Underwater Scholarship
Imagine being put in a room with all your ocean heroes, dream mentors, favourite not-for-profits, world-class research institutes, photographers, film-makers, technical dive instructors, and being asked to decide who to work with… This is the life of a Scholar of the Our World-Underwater Scholarship Society, as Sophie Kalkowski-Pope explains.
Australia
Some of the most-beautiful creatures on the Great Barrier Reef are also the smallest, as John Magee showcases.
Conservation Corner
We take a closer look at the conservation efforts in place to protect the Christmas Island red crabs.
What’s New
The Scuba Diver team look at new releases to market, including the Fourth Element Argonaut 3.0 drysuit, the Santi Diving Kango undersuit and apres-dive T-shirts, Dive Rite’s Slide Lock 2 reel, and the Avatar 102 Airon drysuit.
Test Extra
Editorial Director Mark Evans rates and reviews the innovative and super-comfortable Seeker mask from Fourth Element.
