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Malin metal monsters
They’ve spent a century on the seabed and are showing signs of wear and tear, but war wrecks such as HMS Audacious and Justicia off Ireland are what deep wreck-diving is all about, says CHRIS SIMONS
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What wrecks can tell us - Part 2
Last month JOHN LIDDIARD explained how engines and propulsion systems on wrecks provide vital clues to the nature and identity of a ship. In this concluding article, he moves on to what the hull and fittings reveal
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What wrecks can tell us
A little knowledge goes a long way when you’re wreck-diving. In the first of a two-part guide, John Liddiard looks at Engines & Propulsion
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Diversions in Dieppe
Dive clubs are the same the world over, though they do it a little differently in France, and a wreck-diving weekend with a French club is no casual affair, as John Liddiard reports
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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?more...
Deep in the Northern Approaches
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
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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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