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 <pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:02 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Renowned Welsh cave-diver MARTYN FARR has discovered many miles of cave passage in many countries in the course of his career. He started caving at the age of 10, and cave-diving in 1971. By 1981 he had set a world record for underwater cave penetration, in the Bahamas. In the UK he made his name exploring Wookey Hole in 1977 and 1982. He has taken part in expeditions all over the world and is a leading cave-diving photographer, as well as the author of the classic book The Darkness Beckons. A PSA Cavern, Nitrox and Cave Instructor-Trainer, he has taken many celebrities underground, including the royal princes, and his cavern and cave-diving courses have provided a gateway to the sport for hundreds of today’s cave-divers.]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 08:37 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[South African diver MIKE RUTZEN started working with great white sharks 15 years ago, as a skipper on a cage-diving boat. In 2000 he began freediving with the sharks, and is now known worldwide as one of the few people able to interact with the creatures outside the safety of a cage. Dubbed ‘Sharkman’, he has produced documentaries on freediving with great whites for Discovery Channel, National Geographic, Animal Planet, CNN, CBS and the BBC among others, and has appeared at the UK Dive Shows on several occasions]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 09:31 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[IT’S 13 YEARS SINCE DIVER PUBLISHED MONTY HALLS’ first article, about a dive-site near Plymouth ferryport. He had recently left the Royal Marines to study as a marine biologist. Since then, Monty has dived the world over and over, initially with his ground-breaking Full Circle expeditions, which caught the eye of the TV producers. He has made many television programmes, including the Great Ocean Adventures series, discovered a lost city off India, written several books and won not only Channel 4’s Superhuman title but a Scientific Exploration Society award for services to exploration. Watch out in July for his third BBC series, Monty Hall’s Great Irish Escape – in which he lives and works in Connemara with the Irish Whale & Dolphin Conservation Group – and, in 2012, a major new BBC series called Reef. But what, you ask, about his kit?]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 08:12 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Few divers put their gear through the rigours to which American Dr Andrea Marshall subjects hers. The Queen of Mantas, who started diving when she was 12, has lived and worked as a researcher in Mozambique for the past eight years. Her PhD at the University of Queensland was the first ever doctoral thesis on manta rays, and she went on to form the Foundation for the Protection of Marine Megafauna. Her research has increased dramatically the level of knowledge on mantas, and she is now building on that work with an ambitious global tagging programme. Andrea discovered a new species, the giant manta, in 2008, and can identify many hundreds of individual rays off Mozambique from their markings]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 15:33 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[MARK POWELL, one of the speakers at TEK/2011 in March, wrote the book Deco For Divers, which appears to have become firmly established as a DIVER readers’ favourite. Surrey-based Mark, who has been diving since 1987, has been an instructor for the past 17 years, teaching technical diving at all levels up to and including Advanced Trimix. ]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 09:59 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[JOHN KEAN, author of the popular book SS Thistlegorm, has carried out some 5000 dives as a recreational and technical diving instructor and guide in the Red Sea. It makes him an involuntary guinea pig for the longevity-testing of diving equipment. If it fits, reliably serves its purpose and lasts, it’s OK! ]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:39 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Pro diver and instructor, polar guide, mountaineer and yacht skipper, author, conservationist, TV personality and public speaker (catch him at Dive 2010 this month) - PAUL ROSE is a man of many parts. A former Base Commander and science-support diver for the British Antarctic Survey, he was awarded HM The Queen's Polar Medal, and the US Polar Medal for work with NASA and the Mars Lander project in Antarctica. The Royal Geographical Society added a Ness Award for "popularisation of geography and the wider understanding of our world". He was diving ops adviser to the RGS Shoals of Capricorn project in the Indian Ocean, ran a US Navy diver training programme and has trained many emergency-response dive teams. TV audiences know him from the BBC's Oceans, and he is now filming a new series on British diving. But what about his kit?]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 09:38 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[David Doubilet is probably the world's foremost underwater photographer, the recipient of many prestigious awards. Born in New York, he began snorkelling when he was eight and started taking underwater photographs at 12. A contributing photographer and author for National Geographic, he has photographed more than 65 stories for the magazine since his first assignment in 1971. A feature columnist, contributing editor and author of many books about the sea, his work continues to appear in publications and exhibitions worldwide. The first published collection of his work, Light In The Sea, raised the creative stakes of underwater photography, and the follow-up Water, Light And Time is regarded as a classic.]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 12:57 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[<strong>Jack Ingle</strong> is a stalwart of the Dive Show scene, his kit-configuration workshops never seeming to lose their lustre. Jack started diving with the British Sub Aqua Club 30 years ago, and soon realised that he enjoyed the teaching side. He became a BSAC First Class Diver and National Instructor and remained heavily involved with BSAC until about 2000, as Technical Diving Advisor and Nitrox Chief Examiner, writing the club's first nitrox courses. He had begun diving on mixed gases in Florida in the late 1980s and moved into technical instruction, going full-time in 1996 with TDI, IANTD and PSA qualifications. Jack has been running a dive school and expeditions ever since, teaching everything from nitrox to advanced mixed-gas rebreathers.]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 09:21 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Why did no-one think of making a tank-mounted DPV before? John 'Jetboy' Bantin goes west to try out the Pegasus Thruster on some big wrecks]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 14:07 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[<span class="header">TERESA TELUS</span> is one of the most experienced deep wreck-diving women in the world, and has been a key member of several major expeditions. In 2003 she dived Britannic, running longer bottom times than her male counterparts. She co-led an expedition to identify the pre-Dreadnought Duncan-class shipwreck HMS Russell in Malta. Part of a team exploring and filming the Lusitania, she has also joined expeditions to the Egypt, HMS Vandal and many others. Teresa spends most of her dive-time exploring sites in the English Channel, including countless virgin wrecks. An experienced speaker on expedition diving, she has appeared at recent UK Dive Shows talking about the deeper wrecks of Truk Lagoon<br>]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:45 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[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]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:32 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[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 ]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:02 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[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]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:35 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[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 ]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:16 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[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]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 12:38 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[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 ]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 11:46 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[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 ]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[When divers go missing]]></title>
 <pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 06:17 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[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]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[My favourite kit - Tim Ecott]]></title>
 <pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:52 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[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. ]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[My favourite kit - Mark Ellyatt]]></title>
 <pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 06:10 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[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. ]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[My favourite kit - Leigh Bishop ]]></title>
 <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:43 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[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]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:52 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[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!]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 08:09 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[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 ]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2007 07:25 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[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 ]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2007 07:30 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[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 ]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Fri, 03 Nov 2006 11:15 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[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]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jan 2007 07:53 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[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!]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Thu, 23 Nov 2006 09:08 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[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 ]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jan 2007 12:01 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Fashion? In diving? Never! Many divers would deny that fashion has any influence on their purchases. Diving is a serious business, and buying kit because it helps us to fit in, or to flatter our self-image and impress our mates, is unthinkable - isn't it? Louise Trewavas believes otherwise.Photo (right):Mark Brill]]></description>
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