Home and away wins

WE BANGED ON for much of 2020 about diving in our own

Divers are too ready to dismiss DCI symptoms

UK DIVING INCIDENTS involving decompression illness

Aim for Underwater Photographer of the Year - but hurry!

THE UNDERWATER Photographer of the Year 2021 contest

Lifeboats out as Skye dive-boat fails with divers down…

A GROUP OF NINE scuba-divers had to be picked up by

…and lucky buddy-pair found in dark in Wales

TWO DIVERS who went missing off the Pembrokeshire coast

Six-day dive in Dahab

EGYPTIAN SCUBA-DIVER Saddam Killany, 29, has claimed

Cornish diver lifts unique weights

THREE 25KG BRONZE merchant’s weights have been recovered

Diver couldn’t save husband from shark

AN INQUEST HAS been held into the death of an experienced

Poland trumps Italy with ‘diver kindergarten’

THE WORLD’S DEEPEST artificial diving pool is now Deepspot

Questions remain after UK diver’s death in Mexico

ANEWLY GRADUATED British doctor died on Mexico’s Yucatan

Divers’ bomb find detonated in Guernsey

A WW2 ANTI-SUBMARINE depthcharge found by recreational

DIVERS FIND BONES, BOOTS & WEAPONS

THE REMAINS of a young 16thcentury soldier have been

Two weird squid species caught on camera

SPIRULA SPIRULA, the ram’s horn squid, was known from

Fire puts focus on li-ion battery-charging

US COAST GUARD inspections of diving liveaboards and

SCAPA DEATH

A MALE scuba-diver died in an incident in Scapa Flow

Freda’s Diver Dishes

Veganuary (= Vegan + January) is a concept created

Mono master-photographer Ernie Brooks dies

AMERICAN UNDERWATER photographer Ernie Brooks II, who

DOLPHINS SLOW HEART TO BEAT DCI

DOLPHINS REDUCE their heart rates just before they

FOUR UNDERWATER IMAGES UP FOR PEOPLE’S CHOICE

FOUR UNDERWATER photographs are among the 25 images

Bite-Back launches 2021 calendar

IT’S THAT TIME of year when a British marine-life charity

Dive centre gets behind military

OCEAN TURTLE DIVING (OTD) of Basingstoke, Hampshire

this month DIVER likes…

Ocean Witness Greenpeace’s online video mag has featured

Most fish ever seen in abyss

A SCIENTIFIC TEAM has managed to count the densest

BEACHCOMBER

It was the headline that grabbed me: “Ponzi Scheme

Conspiracy!

ARE YOU WILLING TO BE VACCINATED?” asked a friend.

BE THE CHAMP!

‘The mostcommon problemwhen photographingpeople on wrecksis being able tosee them properly’

BOOK REVIEW

Field Guide to Sharks, Rays & Chimaeras

WELL AND TRULY TESTED

It isn’t light, but would the Mares Dragon BC be worth

WEIGHT-BELT IMERSION STANDARD

ON TWO OCCASIONS I HAVE DITCHED weight-belts. Which

MASK SHERWOOD ORACLE

IT’S ALWAYS TROUBLING WHEN I’m not quite sure what

NEW BUT UNTESTED

The latest kit to hit the dive shops

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How teaching a diver with a disability changed my life

A chance meeting on a university diveclub night was to shape the career of ROD ABBOTSON, and years later he blesses his good fortune. The other guy did pretty well out of it too!

DIVING THE NIGHTSHIFT

Prepare yourself for blackwater - it’s the hottest

JURASSIC SURVIVOR

The bizarre paddlefish is hanging in there in a US

DOWN TO THE RIVETS: MODEL U-BOAT

It’s diving with a purpose - the mission to reduce

INLAND SITES DIVER’S GUIDE 2021

The year of coronavirus caused many divers who would normally slip away to warmer waters to consider options closer to home. Inland sites offer something different and, lockdowns aside, they can be dived all year round…

EVER SNAPPED A DRAGON?

If one of your ambitions is to photograph a spectacular seadragon, or if you have already been lucky enough, there’s a team of scientists hoping you will share your images with the community. Might you even be able to capture the ultra-rare ruby?

LONGIMANUS FEELING THE HEAT

Everything is out of whack at the moment, and if EKREM PARMAKSIZ yearned for a return to normality in the Red Sea it was close, yet different. Covid precautions and daft divers accounted for some of the quirkiness - but then there was the behaviour of the sharks…

WHALE MILK & JELLIES

THE EUROPEAN WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR open-to-all

BOOKING NOW

Pharaoh Dive Club owners Clare and Steve Rattle have

MY FAVOURITE WRECK SITES SCOTTISH STAR TURNS

WHEN IT COMES TO DIVING in Scotland, Scapa Flow is