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New Black Edition Suunto Computers

Suunto have started shipping the first of their black edition D6i and Cobra3 models. The Suunto D6i Black features all the same great features of the standard model including 3D tilt compensating digital compass, full decompression dive information, gas switching, improved memory, dot matrix display and the option to upgrade the computer with a wireless transmitter [...]
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Frozen Planet

We are now coming up to half way through the BBC’s latest nature programme – Frozen Planet. If you haven’t been watching this programme you should really check it out (Wednesday evenings at 9pm). There has been some of the most amazing footage I’ve ever seen of nature both under and over the water. Of the [...]
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Cold Water Diving

As winter starts to set in and the temperature drops there is more that we need to bear in mind before each dive. I certainly don’t want to put anyone off but diving in cold water creates a new set of challenges that need to be prepared for before actually going diving. Every piece of equipment [...]
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Divers survey wreck of wartime landing craft

Club divers have investigated and surveyed a WW2 landing craft that sank just a few miles from home after returning from the D-Day landings in 1944. The 58m-long Mk3 Landing Tank Craft (LCT) 427 was headed for Portsmouth after delivering its cargo of tanks to Sword Beach. It went down south-east of the Isle of Wight [...]
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Battle of May Island sub victims surveyed

Two WW1 British submarines have been surveyed off eastern Scotland in order to ensure that they can be left undamaged if a proposed wind-farm is constructed in the area. The survey was carried out on the K-class vessels K4 and K17, which lie in some 50m of water and 100m apart, about 20 miles off Fife [...]
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Cornish dolphin takes to divers

A club diving group could hardly believe their eyes when a dolphin decided to tag along with them for the entire duration of a September dive on the wreck of the Volnay, off Porthkerris in South Cornwall. The group of eight divers from the British Sub-Aqua Clubs Lincoln & District branch were on the last day [...]
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Suunto Dive Manager 4 for Mac

Suunto have now released a Mac version of their popular dive computer interface software which provides a great link between not only your Mac and dive computer but also their online sport / outdoor activity community at www.movescount.com. The DM4 software provides a good clean display show previous dive profiles, temperatures, warnings and tissue levels during [...]
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Fitting Hose Protectors

One of the most common questions divers buying their first set of diving equipment ask is “how do I fit hose protectors?”. If they have already had a try then usually there are a few unpublishable words thrown into that question! Brute force and sore hands are usually the first method but here are a [...]
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Don’t wear your mask on your forehead

Am I being over sensitive? Maybe getting older and or grumpier? Why is it now positively fashionable to wear your mask on your forehead? As a diver and instructor with thousands of dives under my belt, I feel comfortable in the water. I don’t take my mask off whilst in the water, I need it to [...]
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Resort opens marine biology centre

A luxury resort in the Maldives has set up a facility to aid research into whale sharks that inhabit the waters around the South Ari Atoll. Diva Maldives has opened the Marine Biology Centre to raise community awareness about whale sharks and give its guests a chance to take part in ongoing studies into the world’s [...]
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