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Top wrecks of Malta & Gozo
This is your assignment if you choose to take it - dive the Maltese island wrecks and compile a load of 'Top Five' tables. John Liddiard takes up the challenge
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Tomb raiders deep inside the Zen
Stuart Philpott ventures into the bowels of the Mediterranean's most famous wreck, the Zenobia, to obtain the first photos from the auxiliary engine-room - and to get inside the control-room
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Eyemouth the easy way
You don't have to be a technical diver and brave three-hour boat-rides to enjoy great wreck-diving out of Eyemouth, as John Liddiard explains
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All 'mouth - the new wreck hotspot Northern highlights
North Sea sites accessible out of Eyemouth are proving a happy hunting ground for adventurous wreck-divers. Shane Wasik was part of a team that found more than it had bargained for while venturing way offshore
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What makes Pathfinder so special?
There's something different about diving a famous shipwreck, says John Liddiard. It's the extra dimension added by history. HMS Pathfinder in the North-east is a good example
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Tug of love
It wasn't so much the tugboat wreck as the 100m-deep solo experience that made this Hurghada dive a moving experience for Darek Sepiolo
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The bomb collector
Continuing our occasional series on aspects of the Red Sea's most popular wreck, Sharm-based instructor and Thistlegorm chronicler John Kean takes an armaments expert on a bit of a busman's holiday
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Vodka on the rocks
Twenty-two years ago, a harbour pilot made an inexplicable and fatal error. The Mikhail Lermontov sank as a result. Leigh Bishop travelled to New Zealand to undertake some uncharacteristically shallow dives on the Russian passenger liner, but he would still experience some hair-raising moments, deep inside the wreck
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Unfinished business on a U-boat
Two dedicated brothers made a pilgrimage to dive a submarine wreck off the Isle of Wight last summer - but not before undergoing a thorough warm-up programme. John Liddiard reports on a quest that began in DIVER six years ago.
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Warbirds of the Med
Aircraft remains hold a special fascination for many wreck-divers. Marcin Trzcinski has dived and photographed five of the best
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For whom the bell tolls
A quickly discovered bell meant that identification came hot on the heels of discovering a deepwater shipwreck off south Cornwall. Now the diver who found it, Leigh Bishop, reveals the story of the Kingsbridge, sunk in 1874 laden with 3000 tonnes of colonial cargo!
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Komet that turned fireball
Finding the second-largest naval war grave in the Channel, and the only accessible example of a World War Two German raider was a long-held ambition for Innes McCartney. Then he got to live the dream
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Mysteries multiplied
Considering the vast number of shipwrecks that lie off East Sussex in the English Channel, it's surprising how many are either unidentified, misidentified or recently discovered and awaiting identification. But with so many wrecks so close together, John Liddiard reckons some shuffling of identities is only to be expected.
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Back to mono
Who says British wreck-diving is dark and dismal? Do the constraints of underwater flash photography conspire to give that impression? Gavin Parsons leaves the flash at home as he dives three Cornish wrecks
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Sub vision off Koh Tao
A US submarine sunk in deep water off Thailand offers an unforgettable spectacle for technical divers, says Ayesha Cantrell
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On the P29
Malta's latest wreck was sunk last summer - Elaine Whiteford was among the first divers to get down and inspect it
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- Anatomy of a submarine wreck
- Mount Misery to the Gulf of Pain
- Small, neat and well-slugged
- Anatomy of a wreck - bigger view
- Identify and name parts
- Anatomy of a wreck
- It's such a perfect day
- When KT12 met Safari
- Respect for Rosalie
- High on the Fu Shan Hai
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