This is how obsessions start: warning signs flash as you sleep-walk towards the jetty in the middle of the night, and they take hold as the dives start to haunt your dreams.
A trip to Indonesia leaves Steve Weinman craving for more more...

We dive at dawn - but was John Bantin taking a liberty in Bali when he dragged a reluctant buddy from his sleep to accompany him? Not a bit of it, he was just following the rules more...

Sitting in the middle of what have been officially declared the world's richest coral reefs is the island of Kri. It's hard to reach and the diving isn't easy, says John Bantin, but it's an experience to savour more...

Muck-diving was never muckier than in Ambon Harbour's underwater junkyard, but the debris is studded with living jewels, says Don Silcock more...

The FO has been strongly advising against travel to Indonesia because of the terrorist threat, but plenty of divers consider parts such as north Sulawesi low-risk and high-quality enough to take their chances quite happily. Mark Webster reports on the magical micro-world of Lembeh Straits more...

Manado in Indonesia offers a writhing, colourful mass of marine life-forms, while Lembeh Strait is a living treat for students of underwater curiosities. John Bantin saw many wonders while staying in the area, but only after his eyes had adjusted to the scale of this underwater Lilliput more...

Aboard ship, life is luxurious. Down below, the marine life is out of the ordinary but the dive guide carries a magnifying to locate exciting little creatures with big, big names. No life is spotted at the site called Mark's Sharks, so why does it become the most talked-about dive? As John Bantin observes, people are the strangest species more...

When you've dived with the mantas, reset your sights on the smaller side of marine life. Cannibal Rock conjures up all sorts of unpleasant images, but Mark Webster reckons it could well be the best dive in the Komodo National Park more...

Go somewhere exotic where real dragons roam, take a camera and you can dine out on the experience for ages. John Bantin does more...

The best coral reef in the world? Certainly Wakatobi has to be a candidate. This resort, the result of an enterprising Swiss-Indonesian partnership, is reckoned to be a place beyond bleached coral, incautious fin-kicks and typhoons. Martin Ornroth visits an island that mixes diving, the local community and eco-tourism in a prize-winning blend more...

It's a little bit of Britain in south-east Asia, but you won't find many of these creatures off the Essex coast, says John Bantin more...

Last time John Bantin was in Lembeh Strait in Indonesia, he had entirely the wrong sort of camera. Now he has learnt how to take a squint-eyed view at a marvellous micro-universe. The key to the images is on the last page - go on, test your knowledge! more...

A diving photographer looms over a spectacular sea garden off the coast of Ambon, an island in a far-flung corner of eastern Indonesia. Laura Woodward dived its brightly peopled waters. more...

The Earth was reshaped dramatically in just seven minutes last Boxing Day. Weeks later, photographer Massimo Boyer and Heike Bartsch visited and were first to dive the area in Indonesia closest to the epicentre of the earthquake that caused the Tsunami more...

Are we doomed to a coral-free future? Not if scientists using new technology to regenerate damaged reefs in Indonesia have their way but, as Darryl Leniuk found, the Biorock method is controversial more...

You steel yourself for a high-voltage current dive to see the manta rays - only to find that the rays have had a better idea. In the first of two features on the magical Indonesian dive destination of Komodo, Mark Webster finds a secret pit-stop more...