Digging deep

ILASTED ONLY 60 MINUTES on my university archaeology

Antigua shipwreck could prove unique

ASHALLOW 18TH-CENTURY wreck discovered off the Caribbean island

NEW EXPEDITION TO FIND SHACKLETON’S

Endurance battling the ice. FRANK HURLEY / STATE

Eco-moorings can protect Studland’s seahorses

NEIL GARRICK-MAIDMENT / THE SEAHORSE TRUST CONSERVATIONISTS including

DOOMED ENDURANCE SET FOR FEBRUARY

drill holes through which the AUVs can be

Five freedivers – 12 world records

Alenka Artnik dives on Day 7… DAAN VERHOEVEN

Study shows freedivers outdo seals on deep dives

ELITE FREEDIVERS diving unaided in open sea have

Diver’s $100k find runs in the family

A US SCUBA-DIVER has discovered a rare gold

Baltic divers find two deep ‘Hannibal’ bells

The ship’s bell that clinched identification of the

DIVE-BOAT SINKS IN FLORIDA

INVESTIGATORS WERE trying to determine why a packed

RARE FLAPPER SKATE HIGHLIGHTS VALUE OF ENFORCED MPAS

ROV FOOTAGE captured in Loch Melfort on Scotland’s

Scottish diver finds Neolithic cup in loch

CHRIS MURRAY A SCUBA-DIVER has discovered an almost-intact

Dive-centre fined after poisoning schoolboy divers

GREATER MANCHESTER divecentre Aqualogistics has been fined but

ANDREA DORIA’S FOGHORN SOUNDS AGAIN – 65 YEARS ON

THE FOGHORN FROM the famed Andrea Doria shipwreck

Kent diver dies on his ‘one last dive’ – two others missing

THE FUNERAL HAS been held of a Kent

’70% of divers touch reef’

REEF-WORLD FOUNDATION IT MIGHT SURPRISE scuba-divers to hear

THAT SINKING FEELING ABOARD THE MARY ROSE

A feel for history at the Mary Rose

Ancient shipwreck found off Egypt

ARARE ANCIENT galley has been discovered by underwater

this month DIVER likes…

SCHMIDT OCEAN INSTITUTE Glass Octopus Schmidt Ocean Institute’s

CASH PROMISE TO DIVERS RECOVERING ARTEFACTS

NEW FUNDING is to be provided to save

Diving mayor had heart condition

THEN MAYOR OF CAMBRIDGE Nigel Gawthrope, who died

FREDA’S DIVER DISHES

These amazing edible flowers bursting from meandering zucchini

60m-deep pool for divers in Dubai

THE WORLD’S DEEPEST swimming pool for diving opened

Divers help to ID leopard shark hotspots…

THE EXISTENCE OF a key global hotspot and

…AND SHINE A LIGHT ON ENIGMATIC ‘WEDGE’ RAYS

MEANWHILE TWO SPECIES of the shark-like rays known

BEACHCOMBER

Spy v spy As if poor old mantas

Things fall apart

ICAN’T QUITE UNDERSTAND IT. How did that happen?

SULTANATE PUTS ITS CASE IN PICTURES

Secret Seas: Discover Oman’s Underwater World by Paul

Galapagos: a year soon passes

JONATHAN GREEN An expert-led trip in prime whale

Oasis accolade

Bunaken Oasis Dive & Spa Resort, which opened

DIGITAL TOUR OF TURKEY

Turkey was still red-listed last time we looked,

A new career in Belize

Volunteer travel organiser GVI is offering a Belize

Pack your kit and drive to Ireland

Fully vaxxed Brits no longer need to quarantine

GREEN-LIT for dive travel

as of 5 Aug WL Watch-listed (sudden change

WELL AND TRULY TESTED

A bit different this month: we invited an experienced open-circuit but first-time rebreather diver to try out the Hollis Prism 2. Over to ZOE AGER-HOWDEN – while STEVE WARREN looks deeper into simple dive accessories

NEW BUT SURFACED

The latest kit to hit the dive shops

NEXT ISSUE

HOOKED ON CENOTES Brandi Mueller has been in

Why I love the sea and try to set the right example

Sixteen-yearold snorkeller ALEXANDER SANCHEZ SOIZA lives in Gibraltar and is a volunteer with The Nautilus Project

SPEARHEADING THE BATTLE OF SUDBISCHE

It’s not so unusual for divers to come across weapons, ancient or modern, but to identify a major battlefield is something else

OUR EUROPEAN TOUR

Pt 4

WORTH EVERY MIDGE

There had to be a drawback to the perfect dive road trip and in north-western Scotland it had to be the ‘wee eveners’ – but it would take a lot more than bitey flies to spoil the diving for ROSS MCLAREN

BILL & NADINE BEARD

Sometimes in the 20th century it took determined personalities to kick-start dive tourism around the world. In the first of an occasional series, BRANDI MUELLER meets two of them

HIDDEN GEMS ON ESCAPE ISLAND

During the Covid pandemic circumstances led CATHERINE HOLMES to spend time diving in Barbados. Wide-angle lens or not, it proved an eye-opener

NATURAL ATTRACTION

A hidden retreat in the middle of a busy international port near the city of Antwerp, Domein Muisbroek hosts a rich population of fish and is a resting place for waterfowl and migratory birds. Belgian divers refer to it as “the Well of Ekeren”. KURT STORMS reports

NEUTRAL BUOYANCY

Freedivers – and scuba-divers who also freedive/snorkel, for example during big-animal encounters – can still practise underwater photography at a high level once they reach a reasonable level of skill. MARK HARRIS wrote the classic book on the subject, Glass and Water – and here, in the first of two extracts, he looks at how to achieve the level of control needed to leave the diver time to focus on getting the picture

XLENDI WRECK: WORKING AT 110M

A 2700-year-old Phoenician ship is the oldest wreck ever found anywhere near the Maltese islands – and it goes on producing surprises for the CCR divers working on it. Report by TIMMY GAMBIN and LUCY WOODS

SEALED WITH A KISS

Lundy in the Bristol Channel has a lot going for it, not least playful grey seals and much underwater colour. JO CAIRD paid the island a visit in July with STEVE PRETTY, who took the pictures and managed to keep his housing intact