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03/04/2014
By Gavin Parsons Non – Divers like to ask questions. What’s the deepest you’ve been? Where’s your favourite place to dive? Have you seen any sharks and were you scared? Most of the time my answers are understandable by even the biggest landlubber, but when someone starts talking about scary sharks, I always stop them […]
03/04/2014
By Gavin Parsons What do the films Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger have in common? The answer is Jordan’s City of Petra. The ancient desert city is used as a setting by each one. More precisely, the famous Al Khazneh temple, […]
01/04/2014
By Gavin Parsons Around the world opportunities for true exploration diving are dwindling. Dive sites are being named, mapped and filmed with a GoPro and put on Youtube. But there is a place not too far away with a diving reputation that is due to explode onto the world Diving stage. That Diving in Oman. […]
17/02/2014
Best time to dive the Komodo National Park is fast approaching By Gavin Parsons Dragons are a bit of a human fascination. So how would you like to dive around an island ruled by Dragons? I’m not talking about Cressida Cowell’s Island of Berk from the How to Train Your Dragon books and films, but […]
02/05/2012
The third largest island in the world, Borneo divides its land between three countries: Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei, with the Malaysian territories forming the states of Sabah and Sarawak. Malaysian Borneo is renowned for offering some of the island’s best dive-sites but quality encounters can be experienced in all three countries. For a quick guide […]
02/05/2012
To dive Chuuk Lagoon is to enter, quite possibly, the greatest underwater museum on the planet. Chuuk State (formerly known as Truk) lies in the Western Pacific, somewhere between Hawaii and Papua New Guinea. You have to zoom right in on Google-maps to realise that this clutch of coral islands even exists, but they actually […]
02/05/2012
Bunaken is one of those exceptional patches on the planet that seems as if it was tailor-made for scuba-diving. A small island just off the coast of Sulawesi, in the Indonesian archipelago, divers from all four corners of the planet flock here throughout the year to indulge in its underwater treasures. Just what is it […]
02/05/2012
To discover the largest collection of WWII wrecks on the planet, head over to the Western Pacific and book yourself on a Chuuk Liveaboard. Northeast of Papua new Guinea lies one of the world’s largest lagoons, where 822 square miles of tropical waters are enclosed by a circle of barrier reef. Within this safe-haven, an […]
02/05/2012
Just a few hours’ flight time from the UK, the Mediterranean is home to a unique ecosystem of underwater life and some of the most famous shipwrecks on the planet. Spanning the southern edge of the European Union and covering an area of 2.5 million km², the Mediterranean Sea holds nine per cent of the […]
29/04/2012
Most of us take our able-bodies for granted, grumbling when we feel a twinge of backache and feeling miserable when an injury prevents us from getting on with daily life. But for individuals who suffer long-term disabilities, certain aspects of daily life can present significant challenges.