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

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

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

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

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