Review by Robert Groth For an avid diver, this book is a must read. Tony Liddicoat has been diving for over 44 years, and, as one of the book’s typists commented, “I don’t know how you’re still alive.” Tony pursued commercial, military, and recreational diving and his diving career has taken him all over the [...]

We have moved our discussion of gear and featured products to DivingGearGuides’s featured products and manufacturers showcase. Each of the manufacturers, along with some of their products, that we’ve featured so far are listed on the left in Featured Manufacturers. Each month we feature different products and equipment manufacturers.

Africa being a large continent, it offers all kinds of diving experiences to right from the novice divers to the most experienced scuba divers. Apart from the Red Sea, which offers diving experiences unique to it, most of the diving experiences that Africa offers are in the warmer waters of the Indian Ocean which lies [...]

Looking to be completed by 2011, the European Sea Floor Observatory Network (ESONET) is being developed by international research institutions who are collaboratively spending roughly 300 million dollars to build it. There are 11 primary European partners listed in the main document (http://www.oceanlab.abdn.ac.uk/esonet/ESONET_fullrep.pdf).

The Bahamas are an archipelago, situated towards the west of the Central Atlantic, north of Cuba and comprise of over 700 islands and and are a combination of the rich Atlantic marine life and the best surroundings of the Caribbean. Bahamas holds an important place as the world’s top five diving sites, as the vertical [...]