Freda’s Diver Dishes

Prospecting for treasure

SO WE’RE ABOUT TO GO TO PRESS, and

Safety board blames operator for Conception blaze

MAJOR SAFETY improvements for diveboats and other small

Towering unknown reef surprises scientists in GBR

THE GREAT BARRIER REEF has not lost its

BE THE CHAMP!

100 That’s how many of these articles ALEX MUSTARD has written now – a treasury of sound advice!

BOOK REVIEW

A BRIGHTER BRITAIN Wild and Temperate Seas: 50 Favourite

Want to winter in Malta?

MIKE MCBEY Malta had been on the UK’s

Diverse confident of Croatia’s charms

Croatia, which celebrates 30 years of independence in

Lily on the bright side

“For the past year my staff have been

NEW BUT UNTESTED

The latest kit to hit the dive shops

Honey, I ate the kids

DEEP BREATH It’s not our usual Deep Breath

Huge rockfall closes Thai reef

A CORAL REEF in the Andaman Sea in

‘Abnormal’ shark behaviour closes Red Sea sites

Oceanic whitetip shark. MICHAEL ASTON RAS MOHAMMED national

Clearance divers spared as Tallboy bomb blows

Pictured: The bomb goes off – 75 years

RINGNECK BLENNY POPULAR CHOICE AT TORBAY SPLASH-IN

THE FOURTH ANNUAL Splash-in underwater photography competition run

DIVERS FIND FIRST WW1 SUB OFF TUNISIA

Pictured: Open engine compartment hatch on the wreck

BASQUE DIVERS EXPLORE BRITISH SHIPWRECK

THE WRECK OF a 19thcentury British cargo ship

Blackwater shot scores at WPY

The Golden Moment. SONGDA CAI, WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER OF

Life-saving diver drowned after rebreather spike

AN OFF-DUTY police officer who died while scuba-diving

FINE FOLLOWS ‘GAS-SWITCH TRICK’ DIVER DEATH

THE NEW ZEALAND Defence Force (NZDF), which embraces

Dive-climber Scott peaks in style

LONGTIME CHARITY champion Lloyd Scott has completed his

£9200 FOR DIVER’S SALVAGED WHISKY BOTTLE

AN UNLABELLED BOTTLE of probably undrinkable Scotch has

Mary Rose diver to sell rare watch

Mick Burton’s army logs are being sold with

3D insights from Fallen Oak video

3D photogrammetry image of the wreck. KIERAN DUNCAN

BODY DOUBLING

Cornwall-based dive-wear maker Fourth Element is known for

OUR EUROPEAN TOUR Pt2

For anyone who missed the first part of their journey, Swedish film-makers LINN VENNBERG and MATTIAS GRANBERG set off to tour Europe in their campervan in May, initially diving on Sweden’s own west coast. Then it was time to head southwest and start crossing borders

DEEP SONIA

Diving to depths approaching 100m is still unusual even for wreck-divers these days, but for specialist marine biologist Dr Sonia J Rowley (who took all the marine-life photos here) it’s all in a day’s work. PETRA PRUDEN learns more

BAIA DEAD-BUT-ALIVE CITY

It was FEDERICA SQUADRILLI CARR ‘s diver dad Bruno and his team who discovered the longlost Roman remains submerged off the southern Italian town of  Baia. She pays it a nostalgic visit

SPOTLIT!

TIM LAWRENCE and friends in Thailand live to hunt wrecks, and their recent expedition to a 60m mark revealed what could be a Ming-dynasty collection of pottery. Archaeologists are now working on it

GUNS IN THE GULLY

We last heard from BEN DUNSTAN in May when he shared his diving experiences exploring Cornwall’s flooded mines, but that’s just what he does when the sea is inhospitable. When conditions allow he looks for shipwrecks, and with the 150-years-lost Boyne he struck lucky recently

TIMEPIECES

Divers might no longer need to own a dive-watch but they remain very popular – for all sorts of reasons. STEVE WARREN rounds up 25 of the latest models

TREASURE MEN OF BERMUDA

The background: Bermudian treasure-diver Teddy Tucker found an

STAYING AFLOAT

One diver’s salvation through art and the sea:

SATURDAY ON THE NORTHERN SHIP

Pedro’s dive-group prepare for another day on the

DESCENT TO THE TWILIGHT ZONE

Much of the scuba-diving in Curaçao will seem

THE ULTIMATE DIVER’S PARADIS

OBLU

Diving with purpose

RECENTLY I’VE BEEN TRANSFIXED by diving on TV.

TRAVEL CORRIDORS

Forget it for now – they’ve been closed

SAVINGS AT FILITHEYO RESORT

Dive Worldwide says a couple can save £1400

Diving with your dining?

Sun Siyam Resorts in the Maldives makes bold

Master ecology, then head for Fiji when you can

Ocean Ventures Fiji, a PADI divecentre in Natewa

Just when they thought it was safe…

Though Egypt had remained on the official no-go

PARTYING AT SUNSET

LISA COLLINS Sunset House in Grand Cayman is

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