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So you thought the Ocean had marvellous creatures to see!

by Ric Mingramm

In 2003 having been dry for the bulk of  a number of years due to having  a young family I finally broke through and was able to get both my sons PADI accredited. Hallelujah, I now had an excuse to go diving ...

The Bends

by Craig

Ask any scuba diver what is the one thing they fear most when diving and they will tell you it is the bends. However, if you get a group of divers together they will no doubt joke that '... we will probably all end up bent sooner or later!'. I myself often joked to friends and family that 'I'll probably just end up bent ...' and like most divers I used to think that it would never happen to me ... but it did. I got bent.

Dad is it possible to dive in brown corduroys?

by Ric Mingramm

... Well this was to be an exciting one Son Fletcher had recently attained his PADI Advanced Open Water and Enriched Air Specialty qualifications, so this was to be a deep(ish) dive on Nitrox. Conditions were surgy but not too unpleasant on the dive boat ...