Sleeping giant

HMS Manchester lies off Tunisia in 85m of water - MATT OUTRAM recently led an expedition to explore it. Photography by Chris Simons more...

As the years go passing by

Howard Sawyer takes a cool, hard look at the business of diving wrecks on which people have died.
Pictures by John Bantin. more...

Identity crisis

The attraction of wrecks to divers is often enhanced by a glamorous back-story. What happens, however, when a wreck is known to be historically significant, but its name is forgotten? A Channel ghost ship proves irresistible for Leigh Bishop more...

The battleship that started World War Two

The Schleswig Holstein sailed into a harbour near Gdansk on an apparent courtesy visit, only then to fire on the Polish garrison. These, as it turned out, were the opening shots of WW2. Marcin Trzcinski dives an historic battleship wreck more...

The making of a Wreck Tour

DIVER's Wreck Tours have become something of an institution over the past 10 years, allowing divers to see in full UK wrecks that in cold, dark reality can be seen only bit by bit. John Liddiard explains how it's done more...

Warbirds of the Med

Aircraft remains hold a special fascination for many wreck-divers. Marcin Trzcinski has dived and photographed five of the best more...

Warships down south

Coldwater divers the world over head north to dive Scapa Flow's military wrecks, but John Liddiard has been cherry-picking from the English Channel's own awesome collection, from landing-craft to battleships more...

An American history

The liner Tuscania was launched in wartime, and would become the first carrier of US troops to be torpedoed and sunk during World War One. Leigh Bishop reports on this hard-to-dive UK deep wreck site more...

Anatomy of a submarine wreck

Appeared in DIVER September 2007

Tired of swimming over wrecks that consisting mainly of smashed iron plating and boilers?
Submarines are the answer, says Innes McCartney, whose specialist guide is illustrated by Rico Oldfield, with additional photos by Patricia McCartney and John Liddiard more...

Small, neat and well-slugged

When can you call a wreck 'new'? wonders Mike Ward, as he explores a little-known Red Sea site more...