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Around the world Christmas
If you're one of those divers who never strays far from home and family during the festive season, do you ever wonder how your buddies might be spending theirs? Colin Mac Andrias finds out.
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Get yourself some takeaway buddies
Wish you always had the same buddy, someone who cares about you and shares your interests? Wish your partner didn't complain whenever you wanted to go diving? Sign up your family, says JOHN BANTIN
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Fidget Bones' diary
Long-haul flying can be stressful for divers, as Anne Butler finds, but it's all in a good cause
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Fly-dive for pennies
Kicking off our holiday special issue, chavs do it, families do it, even people with two homes do it, let's do it, let's fly low-cost! Gavin Parsons find out where budget airlines can take a diver
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Packing for travel
By way of introduction to this month's selection of 2007 holiday ideas, and with swingeing restrictions on airline baggage allowances ever in mind, John Liddiard shows us how to pack for a dive trip while staying within a 20kg limit reports
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How to pick the perfect buddy
Make the wrong choice of liveaboard dive buddy and you could be facing the holiday from hell. If you can't find the ideal companion, you should at least know who to avoid. Mike Ward presents his own handy selection guide
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med special 10 world-class DIVES
The Med is dead... oh, no, it isn't, says John Liddiard. Here are 10 dives encompassing the exciting, the spectacular and the exclusive to stand up against the best in the world. All are easily accessible to the UK divers, so long live the Med!
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Win a Luxfer pony cylinder
Don't forget to cast your vote in DIVER Magazine's latest Big Question for the chance to win a Luxfer emergency pony cylinder worth £106. This month we are asking: Do you hoard old dive gear? Answer yes or no, and feel free to comment.
Monty's diary 5: Indonesia
He went in search of sunfish for his Great Ocean Adventures TV series but, being Monty Halls, he had to suffer a certain amount of pain first. Even the end-of-trip celebrations hurt more...Monty's Diary 4 Tonga & Malapascua
You can't book wildlife by the hour, but Monty Halls is hoping that humpback whales and thresher sharks will turn up for the TV cameras on the latest legs of his Great Ocean Adventures expedition more...Monty's diary 3 Scotland
Busy recording another batch of his Great Ocean Adventures TV programmes, Monty Halls heads from Brazil to Tonga, as you do, via the Isle of Mull more...Monty's diary 2 Mexico and British Columbia
Terror squid, wolf-eels and giant octopuses - Monty Halls reports on two more legs of his latest globetrot, filming his TV series Great Ocean Adventures more...Monty's diary 1 Newfoundland & Brazil
Travelling the world preparing the next series of his Great Ocean Adventures for Channel Five, Monty Halls files the first in a series of exclusive reports for DIVER on what he is finding more...Shifting Sands
Terrorism and tourism - two worlds in conflict. Ever since 11 September 2001 travel patterns have changed, as certain regions are considered unsafe and fares fluctuate to reflect demand. Yet divers still want to go where the diving is good and bargains are to be found, says John Bantin more...THE HOLIDAYMAKERS
We don't expect you to sympathise, but it's a tough life being a travel operator and having to check out exotic diving locations. That's what they claim, anyway, so Brendan O'Brien followed them to the Cayman Islands to observe their activities more...Extreme as you want it to be
We marvel at tales of outlandish underwater feats, and something in most divers whispers that what we want, if not to get our adrenalin pumping, is at least to get it sloshing about a little more. Brendan O'Brien looks at ways in which we can all tap into 'extreme' diving more...More Links: