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THE HAWAIIAN SNORKELLING DEATHS MYSTERY
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SNORKEL DIVER
THE HAWAIIAN SNORKELLING DEATHS MYSTERY
Detective work following a spate of peculiar fatalities in the Pacific off Hawaii suggests that a new risk-awareness – and getting the design of the humble snorkel tube spot-on – could be a matter of life or death. STEVE WEINMAN reports
Above:
Snorkeller in Kona, Hawaii.
JON ROIG
“
THE
WATER WAS
at high tide and choppy. About 50m offshore, I was struggling to catch my breath.
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REGULARS
FIRST IN
FOR THE PAST 15 MONTHS or so it’s
Divers crack two U-boat puzzles
A WORLD WAR ONE U-boat wreck off the
WRECK-DIVING PIONEERS CELEBRATED IN CORNWALL
Pictured from left: Rex Cowan, Peter McBride, Bridget
Four divers lose their lives around UK in June
FOUR SCUBA-DIVERS died in the sea around the
Maldives trip for tireless doc
THE LAST OF Emperor Divers’ eight Covid Diver
DIVER’S TOO-CLOSE WHALE ENCOUNTER…
A US SCUBA-DIVER spent what must have seemed
…while shark activist survives ’gator head-bite
ANOTHER US DIVER has blamed himself after an
Divers respond to big clean-up call
AN EIGHT-DAY volunteer cleanup operation on the Greek
PADI DIVERS SET TO HELP TO INTERCEPT PLASTICS
ENVIRONMENTAL BODY The Ocean Cleanup has linked up
Ghost Fishing nets plastics award
GHOST FISHING UK has received the Best Plastic
UK dive-team find 12th-century White Ship
THE TIMBER LONGBOAT known as the White Ship
ISLE OF WIGHT SHIPWRECK CENTRE & MARITIME MUSEUM REOPENS
THE ISLE OF WIGHT’S Shipwreck Centre & Maritime
From Egypt to Hadrian’s Wall
A GROUP OF British forces veterans attached to
Spiny pay-off from seagrass project
The spiny seahorse in seagrass in Plymouth Sound.
WEAPONS FINDS PUNCTUATE SAR TRAINING
A TEAM OF IRISH club-divers who train to
BDMLR swim to save seals
BRITISH DIVERS Marine Life Rescue has raised £30,000
Divers put Singapore on wreck map
SSINGAPORE HAS A long tradition as an east-west
DIVERS INVITED TO EXPLORE ANCIENT PORT
Gold coins retrieved from Caesarea Maritima. OLEVY ISRAEL
FREDA’S DIVER DISHES
The recipe below has become my new favourite
WHALE THAT KEPT COMING BACK
A SPERM WHALE dubbed 19 has been observed
NASA calls on divers’ coral data
KSLOF IT’S A SHOCKING statistic – Earth has
PRINT COMPETITION IS BACK AT THE NEXT NEC DIVE SHOW
Overall runner-up print in 2019, by Jenny Stock.
Ancient trees puzzle divers
BALD CYPRESS trees became established in swampland in
California’s great white shark population boosted
Great white sharks are doing well off California.
HOLE LOTTA AMBITION
BEACHCOMBER It’s the Great British Hole that keeps
Tickled to death
BEACHCOMBER A TikTok “funny video” that reached 100
Majestic gesture
Have I got this right? The gist of
Ruling the waves
Despite all its years of outstanding multimedia endeavour,
Flagging fakery
Wreck experts were surprised to see images on
Oldest sharkbites
The bones of a man believed to be
Bobtails in space
I’ve encountered multi-coloured bobtail squid on Indo-Pacific night-dives
Free and squeezy
LOUISE TREWAVAS FREEDIVING – IT’S BASICALLY SNORKELLING with
BOOK REVIEW
COLOURS OF SUCCESS The Whale in the Living Room,
BOOKING NOW
Two seasons from Four Seasons KEN SEET The
WELL AND TRULY TESTED
DPVs can be relatively inexpensive and lightweight nowadays – which leaves the question of whether you really need one for your style of diving. STEVE WARREN tests a Spanish contender
NEW BUT UNTESTED
The latest kit to hit the dive shops
Instructor fail thyself the myth of mastery
Sometimes, and for a variety of reasons, trainee divers
FEATURES
TO BE BASED AT SEA OR ON LAND?
RICHARD CONDLYFFE chooses the liveaboard route to explore the Turks & Caicos Islands – after which we look at a shore-based alternative
BEACH LAUNCH
Beaches / Sandals is more of a fun-for-all-the-family route to Caribbean diving – PENELOPE GRANYCOME sampled it just before the pandemic struck
SLATED TO EXPLORE
Not for the first time, divEr enters the fascinating netherworld of Felicitas, the flooded slate mine in the west of Germany. Our guide this time is KURT STORMS, who also took the striking photographs
THE ULTIMATE DIVER’S PARADISE!
Helengeli island blends raw tropical beauty with a
CR WET‘N’DRY
Well, more damp than bone-dry, as BRANDI MUELLER adds time with the wildlife of the rainforest to days spent diving on Costa Rica’s spectacular Pacific coast
WORLD OCEANS DAY PHOTO COMPETITION
ON 8 JUNE United Nations World Oceans Day
WHALES SHAKE UP QUAKE RESEARCH
breakthrough biology Above right: Happy to help –a
COCOONED IN RAA
Raa Atoll sits right on the wild frontier of the northwestern Maldives, says DANIEL BRINCKMANN. Far away from any other dive operations, adventurous souls discover enormous numbers of fish, colourful diverse reefs and a generous measure of luxury
SALEM EXPRESS
This Red Sea wreck can be a great dive – but that depends on how you feel about diving on a tomb, says PAUL GRAHAM. Photos
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