The Last Dive – Bernie Chowdhury The Last Dive is a number of things: a history of how cave diving techniques came to be applied to advanced wreck diving (use of lines for wreck penetration,… Continue reading…
I’m going to be really mean and force you to pick just one option! Tell me more in the comments. Have I missed out a type of diving that you’d like to choose instead?
Subway Dive Centre is a PADI 5* Instructor Development Centre, National Geographic Dive Centre and Project AWARE Official Partner located in the town of Bugibba on the island of Malta. I wish I could remember… Continue reading…
I must say I was not filled with optimism when the Disney logo swirled across our screen at the start of the DVD, but having watched all 60-odd minutes of this James Cameron (he of… Continue reading…
The sister ship of the SAS Fleur is the SAS Somerset, and she is moored behind the Two Oceans Aquarium at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town. She’s a special vessel, being the only remaining… Continue reading…
A firm favourite (especially with little girls) at the microscope display at the Two Oceans Aquarium, strawberry sea anemones are small (about 1 centimetre in diameter), bright pink, and have white knobs on the tip… Continue reading…
I only saw my first frilled nudibranch (Leminda millecra) fairly recently, and then two dives on the MFV Orotava in successive weeks had me spotting upwards of 20 of them on each dive. They have… Continue reading…
Tony has posted about decompression diving before, but it’s been on my mind a lot lately after the winter diving this year. If you’ve done a recreational scuba diving course, like a PADI or Naui… Continue reading…
Wired magazine published a short piece on a robot that roves along the ocean bottom, called The Benthic Rover. It’s able to stay down for extended periods of time (like a whole month or more),… Continue reading…
The MFV Orotava was part of the I&J fishing fleet, and was scuttled in Smitswinkel Bay in 1983. She lies alongside the SAS Transvaal, and within a few hundred metres of the SAS Good Hope, the… Continue reading…
