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Hulk in Fairyland

When Karen Williams found what she calls the Yealm Hulk on a dive, she was delighted to have come across something hidden away out of Devon's diving mainstream. Subsequent visits show it constantly changing - but does anyone know what it is?
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Deep in the Northern Approaches

Deep Atlantic wrecks in startling visibility - the main picture shows the White Star liner Carinthia

A few months back, we found out what it's like to dive the 125m-deep Transylvania. Now technical diver Barry McGill goes looking for seldom-dived and lost shipwrecks in the same area off north Donegal - including another White Star liner, Carinthia more...

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 more...

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 more...

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 more...

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 more...

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 more...

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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 more...

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 more...

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 more...

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. 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...

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! more...

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 more...

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. more...

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 more...

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