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Places I've dived and lived to tell the tale...

Red Sea at dusk (11k)
Red Sea, Hurghada, Egypt
The Gifton Islands just off Hurghada offer coral reefs with prolific sealife. Maltese Islands map (11k)
Maltese Islands
Much overlooked in the past by divers, Malta and its smaller neighbour, Gozo, offer relaxed high viz diving amongst some amazing scenery.
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menorca(8k
Menorca:
Never mind raving it up on Ibiza - Get down to some cavern and wreck diving in the jewel of the Balearics.
Sound of Mull, West Scotland
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Azure Window, Gozo (6k)
Gozo
Gozo, Malta. Spectacular underwater terrain in extra-ordinary viz!


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Maldives

Maldives Atolls in the Indian Ocean. Some of the best reef diving in the world.
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Stoney Cove (4k)
Stoney Cove, UK

Probably the most infamous dive-site, if not the most dived of them all.
Dorothea Quarry (10k)
Dorothea Quarry, North Wales
Do you really need a techie black drysuit, 5 tanks, 3 mixes and a long hose to dive 'Dorrie' Quarry?
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Scapa Flow
Scapa Flow, Orkney Islands

Scapa is a wreck divers paradise. From the scuttled German WWI Fleet of 1919, to the tragedy and loss of life. The history behind the many wrecks in Scapa is immense.
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Plymouth - Life on a live-aboard
A weekends live-aboard diving some of the wrecks around Plymouth sound.
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Gildenburg (3k)
Gildenburgh, UK

Affectionately called 'Gildenpit' by its regulars. Those after some winter diving in the UK, or as somewhere for training & checkout dives brave the cold and the viz! Skomer Island (5k)
Skomer Island, Pembrokeshire

An area of outstanding natural beauty, some of the best diving is found around Skomer which is classed as a marine reserve. The top wreck here is The Lucy .
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Zenobia wreck, Cyprus (11k) Cyprus and the Zenobia wreck
Cyprus is not known for its diving, however it boasts one of the top-ten wreck dives in the world
Weymoth & Portland
Weymouth & Portland, Dorset
Weymouth is ideal base for wreck hunting off the south coast!
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Porthkerris, Cornwall
The Manacles jutt out of the Lizard awaiting their next wreck. Some of the many wreck sites are covered here. Cita wreck, Isles of Scilly
Isles of Scilly
Why have the Isles of Scilly, 28miles off Lands End, lost favour with UK divers?
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PADI Rescue course (19k)
PADI Rescue Diver course
Serious Fun - Surviving the final scenario! My side of the UKRS dive#2 yarn
UK.REC.SCUBA newsgroups second ever group dive, UKRS DIVE #2, took place on the weekend 23-26 July '99 at Plymouth.
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Guest page:
Steve's visit to Phuket
My old dive buddy cleared off to Phuket, Thailand for a few week diving. This is what he got up too. Scuba-globe
The dive log
Just some fact and figures about my diving. Contains list of dives with depths and times and my attempt to analyse my underwater air consumption. Also has some dive computer downloads of my dive profiles.





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