Many Magic Mountains

ASUBMERGED RIDGE that starts only 6m beneath the

Dives on Urge sub in Malta torpedo conspiracy theory

The wreck of HMS Urge. TIMMY GAMBIN / UNIVERSITY

Diver landmark Darwin’s Arch collapses

THE ICONIC WRECK formation Darwin’s Arch in Galapagos,

NOW UK’S SHARK-FIN TRADERS ARE CUT OFF

A LEGAL LOOPHOLE that before Brexit had allowed

Mammoth bone find delights Florida dive-pair

IT’S NOT UNUSUAL for scubadivers to come across

DIVERS IDENTIFY 17TH-CENTURY BALTIC WRECKS

TWO WELL-PRESERVED 17th-century wrecks found 18 months ago

Divers likely to be spreaders of coral-killer

TRANSMISSION OF A DEADLY hardcoral disease to isolated

DIVERS COME UP WITH A STAKE IN THE PAST

WELL-PRESERVED wooden stakes recovered by scubadivers in Switzerland

Death of first Underwater Photographer of the Year

BRITISH UNDERWATER PHOTOGRAPHY pioneer Phil Smith has died

John Coe and Aquarius venture down south

TWO ORCAS WERE spotted off west Cornwall in

Ex-intelligence chief dies on 40m Dahab dive

A FORMER HEAD of Ukraine’s foreign intelligence service

RED SEA HOLIDAYS FOR TWO MORE COVID DIVER HEROES

EMPEROR DIVERS has named two more in its

Big ghostnet haul in Sussex

ALMOST 200KG of lost fishing net was recovered

$12m lawsuit follows suit-squeeze death of diver new to cold water

THE DEATH OF a teenage diver in a

SECURITY PLANS FOR WRECK-MINDER DIVERS

UNDERWATER WRECK-SITES are too often out of sight,

Stirling Castle wreck brought to life

ANOTHER VIRTUAL UK wreck-dive trail has joined the

FREDA’S DIVER DISHES

Cairo Savoy is the name that has been

Rare pre-WW1 sub in Devon protected

P ROTOTYPE BRITISH submarine HMS/m D1, the forerunner

this month DIVER likes…

Seas Of Time A 180-million-yearold fossil found in

Sea-Changers’ virtual festival

IN MAY 2011 two UK divers set up

Catfood spells hope for threatened coral reefs

Drone shot of the Sheba Hope Reef. SHEBA

Rare white ‘ghost’ shark takes divers by surprise

SCUBA-DIVERS have encountered what they believe is the

Emperor dumbo

A NEW SPECIES of the deepdwelling dumbo octopus,

Deep-sub divers strike ‘fish gold’

”SCIENTIFIC GOLD” was how the first live sighting

110 CHINESE MERMAIDS TANK UP FOR GUINNESS WORLD RECORD

DIVING HAS BEEN catching on in China, a

AND FOR MY NEXT TRICK...

Falling firmly into the “skill-sets we didn’t realise

You are being watched

We keep hearing about how Greece’s authorities have

The new abnormal

W E’VE STARTED TO EMERGE. The desperate dash

FROM LONELY SQUEEZES TO A WORLD STAGE

Aquanaut: A Life Beneath The Surface

WELL AND TRULY TESTED

The Garmin Descent Mk2i is a lot of

NEW BUT UNTESTED

The latest kit to hit the dive shops

Feeling the cold is-off-putting but it's all about preparation

DEEP BREATH

ON THE ROCK

Fish, fish, fish everywhere – his photos tell the story but photographer ALEX TYRRELL also makes the case for this dive-site not only being the best in Thailand but world class by any standard

CORAL REEFS’ DEEPEST SOUTH

Pictured: Gold-barred butterflyfish (Chaetodon rainfordi). Dreams do come

DIVER WORLD LIVEABOARDS GUIDE 2021

and all the  sites their  guests insist  on diving!

RELICS OF THE GREAT ADVENTURE

Shown here is something that amazed divers and naval

TANKED UP

‘The pay for our new job – $50 a week, each – was on the low side, to say the least, but we did get room and board plus free beer from the hotel bar.’ It’s 2001, and diving instructor BEN THOMPSON and his partner Vicky Page have just got themselves work at the remote South Caicos Ocean & Beach Resort in the Caribbean. Here’s an extract from Ben’s new book…

THE STORY OF APO

Healthy hard corals on Apo Island. DAVE HAAS