From the heart

One for the road

EDITOR IDON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU, but one of

Two mystery wrecks win protection in South-east

Multibeam image of GAD23. MDMS MARINE & PASCOE

BSAC Egypt takes first steps

Red Sea instructors Hendy Amin, Hedra Awad, and

Blaze boat captain pleads not guilty

JERRY BOYLAN, the captain of the Conception, the

Freediver hits record distance under ice with no thermal protection

CZECH FREEDIVER David Vencl has claimed a new

Divers steal beer from shipwreck

SCUBA-DIVERS ARE accused of having stolen or vandalised

…but undersea wine fares well

Loading the barrels for sinking last November. KRONOMETHER

EARL SPENCER RESUMES CHANNEL QUEST TO LOCATE WHITE SHIP RELICS

PLANNED DIVES to find remains of the 12th-century

New whale identified in Gulf of Mexico

A BALEEN WHALE that stranded off Florida’s Everglades

Divers come up with more relics from Mentor wreck

GREEK ARCHAEOLOGICAL scuba-divers have recovered a variety of

MASKED IN THE UNDERWATER MUSEUM

@JASON DECAIRES TAYLOR / UNDERWATERSCULPTURE.COM THE LATEST installation

Dive from home to help save GBR

DIVERS ALL OVER the world are being encouraged

EXPERIENCED DIVER LOSES LIFE IN BAVARIAN CAVE SYSTEM

The Karst Group Mühlbach’s base camp. DERZNO A

North & South teams to form Ghost Diving UK

SARAH TALLON THE LATEST international chapter of Netherlands-based

Freda’s Diver Dishes

I have chosen this dish because mussels are

Film-makers cleared of desecrating ferry wreck

CAN UNDERWATER film-makers desecrate a wreck simply by

this month DIVER likes…

Unforgettable Photojournalism This book repels even as it

Young sharks feel the heat

CLIMATE CHANGE is pushing marine animals towards the

Pirate bones found on Cape Cod shipwreck

THE BONES OF AT LEAST six pirates have

DIVERS FEATURE IN CORNWALL’S CLIMATE STORIES

A NEW SERIES of documentaries examines how climate

Covid-hero doctor is first Emperor dive-trip winner

DIVING DOCTOR Deborah Braham has been named as

Sound offer: free marine eco-training

SOUND DIVING in Plymouth is offering free SSI

MIRANDA BECOMES AN AMBASSADIVER

PADI HAS ANNOUNCED its team of “Ambassa Divers”

UNDERWEAR OPTION

Spare a thought for Brandi Mueller. Our wide-ranging

The scuba fix

A RE YOU LONGING FOR SOMEONE to look

McCREADY BEYOND THE OUTER LIMITS

T HE THIRD IN Mike Seares’ John McCready

WELL AND TRULY TESTED

The ideal for divers is heavyweight performance from

NEW BUT UNTESTED

The lat est kit to hit the div e shops

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE 3

DENNIS RABELING / EURO-DIVERS LANZAROTE Dive-pros are out there

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Seamounts of the Azores Your guide to these

DEEP BREATH

' I found a beer-bottle on a dive - now I seem to have  a brew!

TO DRIVE OR NOT TO DRIVE

If BRANDI MUELLER ever doubted that diving boosts our mental health, such doubts were swept away by a recent escape from isolation to the Revillagigedo islands off Mexico. But it was very much a team effort…

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. BRIAN SHEPHERD, keeper of the group’s website, shares the Hazardous story

5 WAYS TO PERFECT BUOYANCY

Modelling under water calls for perfect buoyancy. SIMON

UPY: THE CREAM

SHARKS’ SKYLIGHT, an image showing blacktip reef sharks

OFF DUTY

When you’re working in a troubled part of the world, time off for scuba can be a blessed relief. PEDRO MOÇO was based in northern Mozambique

breakthrough biology

AUSTRALIA DAMSELS HARNESS SHRIMPS Above right: Fish-farmer –

UNDERSTANDING SHARKS

The images on the following pages were taken by shark-dedicated photographer MARTIN STRMISKA. How can one’s career be shaped by such a maligned animal? He talks to NIKOLA VALTOŠ OVÁ about his job

IT ’S A FYNE DAY

Continuing his popular tour of the many diving attractions of western Scotland, ROSS MCLAREN lands up on the shores of Loch Fyne – and picks two sites that can be relied on to offer a good day out for divers

MORE DOWNTIME

Last time STEVE WARREN surveyed the online world of diving last July he concentrated on entertainment, much of it from the early days of scuba. Now he turns his attention to some of the freely available and invaluable lessons in safety

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