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Poole's Valentine Tanks – the last stand
Poole Bay is the last resting place for at least seven Valentine tanks. Their presence reflects an intriguing wartime story, while their condition raises all sorts of questions. After 10 years’ research, STUART PHILPOTT believes he has many of the answers
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Pleasure beach – get over the pebbles!
Where do you go after a Portland boat dive if you haven’t satiated your diving desires? GAVIN PARSONS has the answer – Chesil Cove
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Britain’s Secret Seas - 2
In the second part of a personal feature to accompany his current TV series on British diving, PAUL ROSE reveals the background to some of the most memorable episodes – and how the hard-worked film crew decided to get their own back on him! more...
Britain’s secret seas
How hard can it be to get UK diving on television? Challenging, admits Paul Rose, but with his new four-hour BBC series starting this month, he would seem to have cracked it. In an exclusive article for DIVER he explains how – and what happened when the team tackled Britain’s biggest shipwreck, the Torrey Canyon
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Love diving, love Lundy
Lundy, off north Devon, was way ahead of the rest of the UK when it comes to marine conservation – 40 years ahead, in fact. Dr Keith Hiscock, who co-ordinated the original consultation, introduces a celebration by divers of the underwater magic that resulted from a long environmental haul
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Beyond the Outer Hebrides
St Kilda offers famously fine diving, but its remote, exposed position means that even the smallest weather window must be seized and exploited, says John Liddiard more...
Going without the flow
Scapa Flow represents for some the pinnacle of UK diving. Less well-known is the high-quality diving on offer around the Orkneys but outside the Flow. A recent expedition was set up to explore some of the deeper wrecks here - the result of a WW1 game of cat and mouse. Report by team-leader Matt Outram and Chris Simons (who took the pictures) more...
Another dive on the wall
Ranked by drop (and through a little judicious cheating), John Liddiard presents his countdown to the great dives for those UK divers who just like to hang out. What will be number one?
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Beneath the sea in 3D
Multi-scan sonar is great for revealing shipwrecks, but it’s also an invaluable tool for marine biologists. Exploring sites off Rathlin in Northern Ireland, Claire Goodwin learns never to doubt the ‘ground truth’ it provides
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Big Tracy gets around
That British waters are home to the world's second-biggest sharks is not news, but the basking sharks off our coasts have recently given up a big secret, says Hannah Cleaver
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All aboard all year round
There have been subtle shifts in UK diving patterns in recent years, says Colin Mac Andrias, who has been talking to skippers while compiling a guide to UK charter-boats
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Happy lundy
Past experiences had been spoiled by the weather, but this time John Liddiard was determined to make the most of this western island's easy diving opportunities
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Legs, meet claws! wrangling Scapa wildlife
Why is Miranda Krestovnikoff trying to persuade an octopus to dine on lobster, when all she really wants is to dive the german fleet?
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Dives with wolves
St Abbs in the south-east of Scotland is a favourite destination for British divers – for almost-local diver SIMON MORLEY the only question is this: why you would want to dive anywhere else?
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Shetland through the ages
Gavin Parsons heads to the UK’s most northerly diving destination – the Atlantic weather and vis could have been better, but he was well-supplied with wrecks, nudibranchs, cat sharks and cake
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Big trip to the Smalls by John Liddiard
Good things come in small packages, they say – our correspondents visit two West Coast diving attractions in that category, one off Scotland, and the other way out from Wales
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Where there’s muck by Jane Wilkinson
Good things come in small packages, they say – our correspondents visit two West Coast diving attractions in that category, one off Scotland, and the other way out from Wales
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North Welsh Wonders
What a pleasant way to pass a few days, exploring the selection of shipwrecks in calm waters off Anglesey in late summer. JOHN LIDDIARD gets into the mood more...