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Totally addicted to Sulawesi
This is how obsessions start: warning signs flash as you sleep-walk towards the jetty in the middle of the night, and they take hold as the dives start to haunt your dreams. A trip to Indonesia leaves Steve Weinman craving for more more...
No rush to surface
Looking for somewhere laidback to suit the underwater photographers and snorkellers in your group? GERALD RAMBERT found it in the Philippines
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Liberty in Bali
We dive at dawn - but was John Bantin taking a liberty in Bali when he dragged a reluctant buddy from his sleep to accompany him? Not a bit of it, he was just following the rules
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Hunting frogfish and other obsessions
Why do some marine creatures have us hooked? We all seem to have our private obsessions, whether diving in tropical or UK waters. On a recent trip to the Philippines, Sue Daly had eyes only for her own prince among fish more...
It's so good in Sogod
Marine biologist Matt Doggett spent six months working and diving in the Philippines and is keen to share the good news about Sogod Bay. Additional pictures by Hew Dalrymple-Hamilton more...
Spot the leopard
John Bantin heads for Thailand's Similan Islands and Richelieu Rock on a sailing boat purpose-built for divers
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A walk in the Perhentian Gardens
Zac Macaulay takes a series of underwater strolls through the picturesque reefs of north-eastern Malaysia - a honey-trap for photographers
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Thailand Showcase
Appeared in DIVER May 2009
Diving the land of smiles more...Diving the land of smiles
Thailand offers a wealth of underwater treasures to delight the most jaded diver, says LOUISA BUTLER. In a two-week trip you could enjoy a world-class liveaboard to the Similan Islands, the fabulous limestone islands of Koh Haa and fine diving quality at the Red and Purple Rocks. Pictures by ADAM BUTLER
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Mongolia's dark blue pearl
Mongolia - not your first thought for a diving holiday, nor your second. But Steven Schwankert's team was in a high-altitude lake to notch up a string of firsts - and to track down the 'underwater deer'. Photos by Marcel-Kurt Moser
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Hallowed shores
East Timor is a young independent state, and its unspoilt reef eco-systems provide amazing diving just a stone's throw from the beach. Shore dives don't get any better, reckons Ethan Daniels
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Twilight zone
Muck-diving was never muckier than in Ambon Harbour's underwater junkyard, but the debris is studded with living jewels, says Don Silcock
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The Japanese way of diving
One of the world's first cruise-liners sank in treacherous waters off Japan last year, and when Dan Burton and buddy became the first to dive it, they gained a glimpse of a unique diving culture
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Swapping Backpacks for BCs
Koh Tao isn't everybody's idea of a holiday, but it's the business when it comes to fun diving for gap-year travellers and budgetwise backpackers in an exotic setting. Zac Macaulay feels his age
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Granite humps, curry and trips
Peace has broken out in Sri Lanka, though don't go there looking for coral. John Liddiard found that reef and wreck-diving on the west coast combined with the country's varied non-diving attractions went down very well indeed.
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- Getting Wet in Phuket
- Andaman Adventure - 3rd Time Lucky
- Red Rock, Purple Rock
- Riding the wave
- Borderline Diving - Burma
- Borderline Diving - Thailand
- Junk Male
- Dodging the Weather