What instructors do on their holidays

What instructors do on their holidays
One of HMS Repulse's 4in gun turrets
540 nautical miles, 11 nationalities, five wrecks, four types of shark, 28° water, three square meals a day. A full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it’s hot and we’re wearing sunglasses! CATH BATES presents six days in the life of a gaggle of Sharm diving instructors, taking a busman’s holiday in search of some serious technical diving! more...

Characters of the Blue Planet & Red Sea

They’re the ones you remember from trips – the life & soul of the party on the boat, the co-operative dugong, the over-keen turtle or the in-demand Napoleon wrasse. JOHN BANTIN looks back on his latest trip more...

Into the labyrinth

This may be a leap into the dark, but here’s a Red Sea travel idea with a difference – a serious cavern-diving holiday where beginners are more than welcome. DAN BURTON goes along for the ride more...

El Gouna

A surprisingly ill-prepared Andy Blackford arrives at the Red Sea resort town to find that they already have everything covered. more...

The end of the road - the Coloured Seas trip Pt 3

Continuing his motorcycle tour, JOHN KEAN hits an obstacle in the form of Russian bureaucracy, causes consternation in a filling station, dives a virgin lake found on Google Earth and experiences the Black Sea’s own Thistlegorm more...

Slow ‘N’ Easy

The entertainment is all beneath the surface for eager guests at Marsa Alam’s Oasis, and there’s plenty to occupy divers even when the sea-elephants prove elusive, says Steve Weinman more...

Into the black - the Coloured seas TRIP Pt 2

Run a ‘live’ diary in a magazine, and you’re asking for trouble. JOHN KEAN started his Red, Black and White Sea tour as half of a motorbiking duo, but this month brings problems in the exodus from Egypt, his arrest, and the loss of his buddy. When exactly will he get a dive in? more...