By Jonathan Perlmutter The idea of “The season” is an interesting and multi-faceted one; in Great Yarmouth, say, it is inaugurated by the hurried whitewashing of salt-rusted coastal fairgrounds and the airing of previously mothballed Kiss-Me-Quick hats; in Baja Sardinia,…

By Simon Ellis The Italian novelist and philosopher Umberto Eco once said that “We write lists because we don’t want to die”. The following is a list of facts, falsehoods, and things that may or may not have happened when…

By Caroline Green and Andrew Cooper Well – what a trip! Lanzarote welcomed us with sunshine, warmth and a lovely sandy cove to base our diving from. And also lots of opportunity for non-dive entertainment well into the night.  And a lot of the group took that…

For most of us, our first tentative fin kicks in ‘open water’ are a dim distant memory. I asked some of this year’s trainees to remind us what it was like. Ocean Diver On the train down to Portland it…