By Matt Brown Over the Easter weekend, a group of intrepid Clidivers descended onto the isle of Portland for the traditional ‘the diving season must begin at Easter’ trip. It’s always seemed a bit odd that the season begins on…

By Steve Walsh, Clidive Boat Officer As you know, Clidive (i.e. you and me, the members!) owns two lovely RIBs (rigid-hulled inflatable boats): Yellow (7m long) and Blue (6.5m). The boats and their trailers take a lot of punishment over…

For more years than I care to remember, I’ve been giving diving lectures that are all, to some extent, about managing risk and being safe. I particularly enjoy doing the one that includes the ‘incident pit’, because I have a…

Words: Jonathan Perlmutter/Pictures: Simon de Lotz Our party of nine fumbled its way, by plane, by train and by automobile, along the humid underbelly of Europe, until we were met with a peninsula, which had the town of Hyeres at…

By Harriet Cross & Emma Rigby Preeda had the fantastic idea of arranging a trip to Madeira, a surprisingly green Portuguese island 400km north of the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean. It is positioned in the Gulf Stream so…