World-beating ambitions

IS THE AGE OF COVID also the age

Greece tempts diving visitors with 91 wrecks – and promises of more

SCUBA-DIVERS MIGHT be forgiven for thinking that Greece

Also in Greece: divers explore ancient city of Olus…

Cleaning the surface of the submerged structure in

…AS BRITISH TEAM BREAKS BACK OF ANTIKYTHERA RIDDLE

IT WAS ONE of the most significant discoveries

Ice-breakers: assaults on freediving records

RUSSIAN FREEDIVER Alexey Molchanov has claimed a world

…while scuba-divers find first Arctic fluo-fish in Greenland

BIOFLUORESCENCE, the ability to absorb energy from sunlight

‘Amazing’ seabed revealed as ice-sheet parts

The giant iceberg A74 calved from the Brunt

UK cave-diver died using unproven rebreather

AN INQUEST HAS heard how a cave-diver in

THAI CAVE-DIVING SITE CLAIMS ANOTHER VICTIM

IN THAILAND an experienced scuba-diver was found dead

Company fined for diver killed by sting ray

THE SINGAPORE oceanarium in which its senior diving

Scuba fish thieves pay high price

TWO SCUBA-DIVERS were abandoned in open water off

ANCIENT SHIPWRECK IN SPAIN TO BE TRANSFERRED ASHORE

THE WRECK OF one of the oldest intact

Sharks and rays are being driven closer to extinction

ONCE-ABUNDANT reef sharks that are particular favourites with

Video lifeline and lyre music win Covid heroes dive-trips

THE SECOND and third of Emperor Divers’ eight

Slug head with a life of its own

Head and body of Elysia marginata a day

FREDA’S DIVER DISHES

So here we are in May! Lockdown is

Pioneering archaeological diver George Bass dies

UNDERWATER ARCHAEOLOGIST George Fletcher Bass, referred to as

this month DIVER likes…

Seaspiracy Ali Tabrizi’s thought-provoking new Netflix film puts

Diver dies on the Vandenberg

THE BODY OF A WRECK-DIVER reported missing in

Dan divers set for Euro tour

DAN EUROPE EMBARKS on a road tour this

FIRST HUMANS DIVE INTO EMDEN DEEP

THE FIRST MANNED dive has been made into

Diver photo ops – Close-up and World Oceans Day

CLOSE-UP PHOTOGRAPHER of the Year (CUPOTY) is a

Fight is on to protect UK seagrass

AS MUCH AS 92% of the UK’s underwater

Signatures sought for Blue Carbon letter

MORE THAN 3000 scientists, politicians and public figures

BEACHCOMBER

SCOTTISH SUPERDADS Don’t let me hear you moaning

WINDJAMMER EXPERIENCES

Windjammer Landing Villa Beach Resort on St Lucia

Talking of diving in Portugal – and doing it

An “international diving congress” called Diving Talks takes

Blue online

“It’s not that we don’t want to talk

MASTERING THE ART OF DIVING IN HURGHADA

If you’re planning a trip to the Egyptian

SARDINE FEAST FOR NEXT YEAR

Megafauna specialist Amos Nachoum has been attracting even

Megamobula action in the Sea of Cortez

From mid-May to July, thousands of mobula rays

MALDIVES FOR DIFFERENT FOLKS

A key budgetary consideration ahead of travelling to

Insight into Azores

From August 5-18 divEr contributor Daniel Brinckmann, with

PLAN AHEAD FOR GALAPAGOS

Amid current travel uncertainties, one sound idea is

House party delayed

We told you about the “Sunset Submersion” extravaganza

Waiting it out in Mexico

In Mexico, the resorts linked with Pro Dive

Happy returns

Big welcome-back savings and ”worry-free” bookings are promised

MARES XR-REC SILVER BACKMOUNT SINGLE CYLINDER SET

WELL AND TRULY TESTED

SCUBAPRO MK25 EVO / D420 / R195 PACKAGE

DURING THE 1960s, ’70s and ’80s Scubapro produced

NEW BUT UNTESTED

The latest kit to hit the dive shops

Clever cuttlefish show advanced self-control, like chimps & crows

Are you one of the many divers fascinated to watch cuttlefish behaviour?  DR ALEXANDRA SCHNELL is too. This research fellow at Darwin College, Cambridge says she is happiest under water, but it was in the lab that she recently discovered that these surprising cephalopods still have big secrets to reveal. Her article first appeared in The Conversation

UNDERBATHWATER WORLD

Photo contest captures lockdown mood – and divers’ levels of invention

ESCAPE TO KANDOOMA

We all need to get away and HENLEY SPIERS has managed it. He explains why the Maldives remains hard to beat…

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE 3

Eighteen dive professionals weigh in with descriptions of their personal favourite local dive-sites – and we apologise in advance if they make you want to leave at once…

BLACK CORAL RE-CREATING DANGER

Re-creating danger can be almost as risky as the real thing, and that means more than just cut fingers, says filmmaker BRETT WINN, producer of a documentary film that gets under the skin of black-coral divers

DIVING DIPLOMACY

With her high profile, Miranda Krestovnikoff was named a PADI AmbassaDiver 2021 – while nobody in the UK was diving because they were locked down.  Tough challenge? One attraction is that it offers an excuse for ‘stress-free’ returns to favourite UK dive-sites, she tells  STEVE WEINMAN – and also to get the  family involved. 

UK WONDERS IN PICTURES

WE HAVE THE Marine Conservation Society to thank

THOSE WERE THE DAYS!

Inspired by the period diving tales in Peter Vine’s new book Spirorbis, he and his dive-buddies reminisce over some memorable photos – and we also bring you two extracts from the book