Ice station Rothera

DAVE SMYTH, Field Diving Officer for the British Antarctic Survey at Rothera Research Station, dives every day, year-round, and he loves his job. So what is a typical day’s diving in Antarctica like? See you on the ice more...

All Golf and Gators

MARTIN PASHLEY reports on a diver who makes his money on Florida’s golf courses. Photography by JAMES CHEADLE. more...

How scuba helps us in space

Do you know your EVAs from your EMUs, your NEEMOs from your NBLs? Jill Michaels has been granted rare access to four astronauts - three of them are Brits, and they're all scuba-divers. Stand by for lift-off (and lots of space-style abbreviations, too!) more...

Anti-terror squad

The safety of 4 million passengers and crew passing through Miami on almost 3000 luxury cruise liners, oil-tankers and freighters depends on a small team of courageous police divers. They are responsible for guarding murky underwater borders against terrorists, drug-traffickers and smugglers. And sometimes they discover the unexpected, as Ron Laytner reports in a DIVER exclusive more...

No more scooby-dooing

Could you cut it as a commercial diver? There aren't too many training centres, but Fort William in west Scotland, the rainiest place in the UK, is one of them. Sue Daly spent three weeks there recently, the only woman on an HSE Scuba course. Rain was the least of her problems more...