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 <title><![CDATA[GET STARTED - Why I like to stay warm]]></title>
 <pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:01 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[We started off with one television presenter learning to dive in the UK through the club system. To keep a balance, here's another TV personality, wildlife presenter Michaela Strachan, who has kept well clear of British waters since learning to dive through the PADI schools system! ]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[GET STARTED - What do they expect of me?]]></title>
 <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:45 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[In the training pool you will need to go through a series of routines to ensure that you're at ease with both the equipment and your own body in an unfamiliar environment. Forewarned is forearmed, so John Liddiard runs through the main skills that have to be learnt ]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[GET STARTED - What kit do I need?]]></title>
 <pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:20 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[It's shiny and it twinkles at you in the dive store and whispers "buy me!" But UK diving's best-known gear-tester John Bantin advises caution when it comes to buying diving equipment - buy only the basics to start with, and choose the rest later under advice ]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[GET STARTED - What should I be scared of?]]></title>
 <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:44 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[OK, you've seen Jaws and Deep Blue Sea and you don't fancy ending up as a shark's breakfast. Don't worry, says John Bantin - these and other "fearsome" predators have far greater cause to be scared of you ]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[GET STARTED - Meet your instructor]]></title>
 <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:42 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[What sort of diver do you want to be? How and where do you want to learn? What is a referral, and how do you recognise a good instructor from a bad one? John Liddiard has the answers ]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[GET STARTED - Join a club or go to school?]]></title>
 <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:41 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Your basic training can be undertaken either through a commercial diving school, as a one-off experience, or with a dive club, with its volunteer trainers and continuing support. John Liddiard weighs up the options ]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[GET STARTED - The ultimate stress relief]]></title>
 <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:27 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Miranda Krestovnikoff, who presents the popular Channel 4 TV series Wreck Detectives, may have been a water baby but she took her dive training slow and easy. She has some simple advice for all would-be divers: just try it! ]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[GET STARTED - The big questions]]></title>
 <pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:18 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[At DIVER Magazine we find that certain questions are regularly posed by non-divers. They are sensible questions and John Bantin has some straight answers to them]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Please sir. Can we go diving?]]></title>
 <pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 07:26 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[It's back to school for ultra-deep diver Mark Ellyatt, as he takes an unlikely trip to Gozo in the company of 30 young wannabe divers and their minders. No talking at the back...]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[From Numpty Diver To MSD In Six Months!]]></title>
 <pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2007 14:34 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title><![CDATA[Netdiver]]></title>
 <pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2007 06:13 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[For some divers, Internet forums can be seriously addictive, reckons Mike Ward. Still, once you've gained diving know-how, it's your duty to share it with others]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Joining the club]]></title>
 <pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2007 13:03 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Can't wait to start diving in the UK? It's really just a matter of being told exactly what's involved by those in the know, says Mike Ward]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Wed, 23 Aug 2006 12:38 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Novelist Lynne Reid Banks started diving later in life than most, and for one reason or another hers was not an entirely smooth transition from land to sea, as she explains]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[My first dive]]></title>
 <pubDate>Fri, 08 Sep 2006 16:08 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[We all have to start somewhere. An inland quarry in February could be just the place for that initial plunge - and perhaps Mike Ward's account will ring nostalgic bells for some of you]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Wannabe a tec deep diver ?]]></title>
 <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jan 2007 12:01 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Is PADI's venture into teaching "technical" diving a piece of window-dressing to grow its market further, or a serious attempt to come to terms with the demand for deeper, safer deco-stop diving? In his continued quest to earn every diving qualification available, Chris Boardman heads for the Red Sea to find out]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Training on the Thistlegorm]]></title>
 <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jan 2007 12:01 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Wannabe a wrexpert? Chris Boardman has been sampling a speciality course aimed at divers who want to feel more at home on sunken ships, and he reckons that the instructor and the location count for everything]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Learning to dive a dolphin]]></title>
 <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jan 2007 12:01 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[He has reviewed open-circuit and closed-circuit training courses, but this time Chris Boardman was heading for the Red Sea in search of a halfway house. Would a semi-closed circuit rebreather turn out to be his dream machine?]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Mixing it]]></title>
 <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jan 2007 12:01 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Britain's biggest supplier is now providing oxygen and helium only to certified dive clubs and shops, so demand for certifying courses could rise. But a DSAT Gas Blender Course poses as many questions as it answers for Chris Boardman. Photos by Craig Nelson.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Join the club]]></title>
 <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:20 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[There is no better way to get started in diving than to join the ranks of the many thousands who have learned their skills as members of the biggest and oldest diving club in the world, the British Sub-Aqua Club]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Water babe]]></title>
 <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jan 2007 12:01 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Co-presenter of the BBC's How Do They Do That? with Eamonn Holmes, and main presenter of the weekday magazine programme Five's Company on Channel 5, Esther says that whether it be football or scuba-diving she has a passion for outdoor pursuits]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Beginner's look]]></title>
 <pubDate>Mon, 14 Aug 2006 13:02 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[The underwater pictures shown here all come from the first roll of film put through a Nikonos by rank beginner Nicola Tyrrell (right). And say what you like, but we've had worse shots from professionals. Read about the one-day course that did the trick for Nicola The underwater pictures shown here all come from the first roll of film put through a Nikonos by rank beginner Nicola Tyrrell (right). And say what you like, but we've had worse shots from professionals. Read about the one-day course that did the trick for Nicola ]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Essential gear]]></title>
 <pubDate>Mon, 14 Aug 2006 13:02 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Newcomers might be forgiven for wondering whether divers really need the full paraphernalia of hoses, belts, buckles, cylinders and gauges. John Bantin assembles a basic set of essential equipment]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[How I learned to dive]]></title>
 <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jan 2007 12:01 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Three of our regular writers meander down memory lane in search of the moment when their lives changed for ever, and they stopped being common or garden, earth-dwelling humans. First, veteran diver Kendall McDonald, pictured in bloodthirstier days, recalls how he turned his back on spearfishing, and almost founded the British Sub-Aqua Club... ]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Saskia meets the Big Blue]]></title>
 <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jan 2007 12:01 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[When wannabe diver Saskia Campbell went to the Red Sea, her hope was to achieve the British Sub-Aqua Club's new entry-level qualification and become the world's first Ocean Diver. With her went BSAC National Instructor Tony Cummings and recently graduated Novice Diver, writer and photographer Stephen Lee.]]></description>
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