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The economy has made virtually no difference to anyone I know - except cheap flights are becoming as rare as hens teeth. If anything I cold have dropped my mortgage payments instead of using the current position to pay off more capital- and be way better off than last year. I'd probably not...

The chase of the research, search for and eventual exploration of a wreck with friends I've known forever. Pottering around a local reef with the kids. Pottering around a local reef/wreck with the local club. The exitement a new trainee has on his/her first dives. Though today we've just...

I'm not sure my diving has ever been 'goal orientated'. In 20 something years of diving when diving with a different set of divers I come away having learned something ( even if it is 'I wouldnt' do it that way') There is always something to learn, a new way to do something. Look at the way deco...

There are very few regularly dived wrecks within the accepted 30m range that are complicated penetrations - the vast majority are broken and/or open and may not consist of much more than ribs/engines/boilers laid out on the seabed. Your average recreational/occasional diver is going to be very...

Maybe I'm odd - I didn't have any particular 'goals' this year - though the highlights were diving with both the kids in Scapa Flow, my daughter on the cruisers, my son on the barrier wrecks, then the red sea with my daughter in September. Did lots of diving and teaching around various parts of...

We've half planned it twice - and both times the ferry ( Norrona ) changed its sailing schedule making it very complicated to get there from Scotland - is flying/diving/car hire a realistic possibility - and can it be co-ordinated with sea-kayak trips - hence the ferry being ideal!

It's a system that works extremely well - only don't tie the boat off, just leave it free and motor over to drop the divers on the shot. We've tried all sorts of shot weights, but seem to have most success with long thin shapes that drop through the water adn drop them just to one side or the...

Thats where the subjective bit comes in, my daughter would agree wholeheartedly with you that the Koln is the better wreck - the bridge is very bonny. However, a wee wander under the main gun turrets round the back, or into the 'shed of dread' and the Markgraf wins hands down - no contest :-) ...

They are both just lists of good wrecks that are easily accessible to the masses and dived by merely ringing up a dive centre and jumping on a boat - nothing wrong in that, but it clearly isn't going to give a list of the worlds 'best' wrecks - though I would put the Markgraf on my list to be...

Do you still have do the IFC if you did the original Assistant Club Instructor course way back when? I actively instruct already, but the local club is bsac, and I'd quite like to hep out occasionally - however the next IFC is not for 6 month, and even then it's 250 miles away on a weekend I...

I agree totallty that the UK has some fantastic diving, but I'm not convinced that it has to be any harder than anywhere else in the world, with the correct training and attitude then it doesn't have to be challenging - even the likes of scapa are perfectly within reach of most sport divers, and...

How about the Naval Wrecks of Scapa Flow, forget who it's by, there's another similar one by Rod Macdonald. Or for recoverery and fantastic tales - The Other Titanic by Simon Martin get's my vote - they essentially salvaged a white star liner thought at the time to be undiveable due to tidal...

Was it calm in the west today? - We had fantastic weather on the North Coast, left Groats about 9, nipped accross the Pentland Firth, 2 dives in Scapa, lunch in Stromness then back in time for tea - all in all a great day out

Stoney is in Leicestershire, hardly round the corner from Morecambe - there are a lot of good sea sites much closer than it - quarries have their place I guess, but I'd not bother driving any distance to one

Hope you had fun today, wrecks are always good funm wherever they are. Just one thing, I notice you've only done bewteen 25-50 dives, assuming your CP is up to date, but within that have done 5 courses ( or will have), whilst training is always good, what is better is to do some training, and...

Why not simply go diving with other wreck divers and learn the skills over months/years progress as you see fit rather than go on a course - I live very close to Scapa, it is perfectly possible to dive the wrecks there safely and without any penetration skills, or alternatively get yourself...

Ullswater is diveable from Glenridding - from vague memory it's pebbly to about 7m, then rotting vegetation, I think there was a bit more of a wall by the bridge, it drops off to about 30m or so - don't expext to see anything. Crummock water admittedly in February had no fish and a few algal...

When I trained there was only 1 trimix course, not 2 anyway......but a few years later I found myself learning to dive rebreather and with under 20 hours on it diving solo on the Pheasant, a notoriously tidal wreck in about 80m off Hoy. Now, nothing went wrong, I had a fabulous dive, but...

we've used Tony Backhurst Scuba Travel | Worldwide Scuba Diving Holidays several times, and always had a great time - we'll be using them again next time we're looking for a week's liveaboard somewhere. I'm not aware of anyone having any problems with them.