Category: Sodwana Bay

The post appeared first on: Visit divemagazine.com Author: Mark ‘Crowley’ Russell Alex Dawson’s UPY 2024 winning image (Photo: Alex Dawson/UPY 2024) The Underwater Photographer of the Year (UPY) 2025 contest is open, with entries accepted from 1 November 2024 until 4 January 2025. 2025 marks the 60th anniversary of the contest, first held in 1965,…

The post appeared first on: Visit divemagazine.com Author: Mark ‘Crowley’ Russell Dr Eugenie Clark dives the Jolanda as it lies on Shark Reef in Ras Mohammed (Photo: David Doubilet) In the beginning… a review of Treasures, Shipwrecks and the Dawn of Red Sea Diving, by Howard Rosenstein, published by Dived Up Review by Mark ‘Crowley’…

The post appeared first on: Visit divemagazine.com Author: Mark ‘Crowley’ Russell The Italian Spica-class torpedo ship Aldebaran underway The Aegean Sea saw a huge amount of action during the First and Second World Wars. Greek Explorers Kostas Thoctarides and Spyros Vougidis take us to Aldebaran, one of the 91 ships designated accessible to divers by…

The post appeared first on: Visit divemagazine.com Author: Mark ‘Crowley’ Russell An aerial view over Bigbury-on-Sea (Photo: Shutterstock) By Mark ‘Crowley’ Russell A 72-year-old scuba diver died due to a ‘user error’ with his rebreather, according to a coroner’s statement made at the opening of an inquiry into his death. Edinburgh-born Neil Barker, a retiree…

The post appeared first on: Visit divemagazine.com Author: Mark ‘Crowley’ Russell The MY Seaduction sank in Egypt’s St John’s National Park (Photo: MY Seaduction/Social Media) The scuba diving liveaboard MY Seaduction is reported to have sunk near Elba Reef in St John’s National Park in the southern part of the Egyptian Red Sea. Seaduction was…