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My favourite kit - Innes McCartney

Innes McCartney is a deep-wreck diver, a historical consultant specialising in submarines, and a naval history and diving publisher. He has discovered many historic shipwrecks, including the M1 and HK Komet, and HMS Indefatigable and HMS Defence at Jutland; organised the Operation Deadlight expeditions; identified 44 mystery submarine wrecks; and been a key figure in the making of TV documentaries such as Deep Wreck Detectives and Clash of the Dreadnoughts. Innes was also the first diver to visit all three of the greatest diveable liner wrecks: Britannic, Lusitania and Andrea Doria more...

Life support with the Sentinel

JB gets to grips with the Sentinel  Picture by Kevin Gurr Fatal incidents involving closed-circuit rebreathers can't all be dismissed simply as diver error, says Kevin Gurr - but he reckons that all the life-threatening problems that have arisen in the past can be engineered out. John Bantin spends a week with the CCR designer on a Red Sea liveaboard, to see if his Sentinel 'life-support system' lives up to his claims more...

My favourite kit - Pete Atkinson

Pete Atkinson Pete Atkinson, 52, is a professional underwater photographer. For 20 years he sailed and dived all over Polynesia - then, five years ago, he sold his yacht, bought a house in Australia and married another photographer, Darin Limsuansub. He claims not to be a grumpy old man, but his attitude to current dive fashions suggests that he is more...

How dry is your drysuit?

Stuffing boots with newspaper helps to get moisture out. You might get the outside dry, you might even get the inside dry, but how do you prevent mouldy boot syndrome? John Liddiard offers some sweeter-smelling solutions more...

My favourite kit - Rich Stevenson

Rich Stevenson Rich Stevenson, 39, is a professional diver living and working in Plymouth. For 10 years he has owned and run dive-boats and, until recently, a coastal dive centre. His independent company now concentrates on rebreather training, underwater film operations and commercial diving charters on his new 9m RIB Ocean Venture. Involved in technical instruction since 1995, Rich was one of the UK's first IANTD Cave and Trimix Instructors, and is an IANTD and PSAI Instructor-Trainer more...

Tighten up on your weights

Robert N Rossier Thirteen per cent of divers have lost weights; 9% have lost the whole belt. So what's going wrong and what can be done about it? asks Robert N Rossier more...

King of kit

Confused about which dive gear to buy and how to configure it? Let the in-depth experience of superbly equipped Mike Ward be your guide more...
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When divers go missing

All divers should use at least some signalling devices in case they lose their dive-boat - John Bantin evaluates a selection of items that will do the job more...

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My favourite kit - Tim Ecott

Tim Ecott's book Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World was published to critical acclaim in 2001, and has since become a cult classic, selling more than 50,000 copies in the UK alone. A former BBC correspondent, he writes regularly for the national press on marine matters and was scriptwriter for Deep Blue - the feature-length version of the BBC's Blue Planet series. He worked as a Divemaster in the Seychelles, and serves on the UK board of the Central Caribbean Marine Institute. more...

My favourite kit - Mark Ellyatt

For the past 20 years, Mark Ellyatt has been fascinated by deeper diving . Venturing below 150m for the first time in late '95 on trimix sealed the deal. Until then, in the early years of technical diving, it had been a case of survival on scores of 120m-plus air dives. Since diving the SMS Baden in the English Channel at 177m twice, Mark's attraction to deep wrecks has never waned. He has visited the 150m-deep and unfeasibly vertical HMS Victoria off Lebanon 22 times in the past four years. After an accident while returning from a 260m dive in 2003, Mark focused on decompression tables and, later that year, planned a 313m plunge from which he returned (almost) unscathed. more...

My favourite kit - Leigh Bishop

LEIGH BISHOP, Britain's foremost deep-wreck photographer, has been diving for 19 years, including the ground-breaking HMS King Edward VII expedition in 1997. He has specialised in exploring notable liner wrecks including the Britannic, Lusitania, Transylvania, Justicia and Egypt and discovered the cargo vessel Flying Enterprise. Leigh is also a full-time fire-fighter more...

Bungee is best

Been meaning to get some failsafe steel spring-straps for your fins? They're great, but John Liddiard reckons bungee is even better, and for the DIY-er it can cost you less than the price of a pint! more...

The £11,000 diver

You're an open-circuit diver with a legacy, and have more than 10 grand to spend on kit. What are your options? John Bantin sets out to equip the price-no-object diver more...

Travelling Light

Toting heavy dive gear around the world is costly, so it's time to strip down to the bare essentials. We're talking BC, regs and fins - John Bantin tests 11 sets of lightweight gear for the travelling diver more...

Getting your measure

Get it right, and you and your drysuit are likely to be very happy together - get it wrong, and divorce is on the cards. John Liddiard sizes up the smart way to get measured up for a new suit more...

Get those dangly bits under control

Divers have to hang their accessories somewhere, but that doesn't mean you need to be a Christmas tree this summer. John Liddiard offers some sound advice more...

Countdown to Christmas

Need some affordable gift ideas for diving friends and family? Look no further - we've got an idea for every day of December until it's time for the unwrapping to start! more...

So your buddy has a REBREATHER

As rebreather use continues to grow, open-circuit divers need at least an awareness of how these units work. After all, you may find yourself buddying a rebreather diver, or be in a position to help in an emergency. John Liddiard fills in the gaps more...

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