Mike and I had originally planned to dive in Plymouth, a couple of boat dives to the Scylla and JEL, or the reefs, but unfortunately the...
Customers of LP Diving and members of Staffordshire Technical Divers (STD) got together last weekend for a summer social hosted by Lance Palmer and LP Diving...
“Can you hand me that Phillips head screwdriver?” Six days. Six days to convert our newly purchased van into a dive camper and begin our summer...
When I entered the postcode into my satnav given to me by Gary at DiveStay in St Abbs, Scotland and it told me I had a...
After more than two decades in service the Portland Coastguard search and rescue helicopter ceased operations on Friday 30th June 2017, despite more than 100,000 people signing...
This group of divers led by Mark Milburn from Atlantic Scuba certainly got more than they bargained for this week! What started as a trip out...
Wrecks happen, they always have, especially along an exposed coastline like the one around Cornwall. Many have heard the stories about the wreckers; were there really...
During both the Great War and World War two, fishing trawlers, drifters and whalers were used as mine sweepers or ancillary vessels. During both wars, hundreds...
When the HMS Anson hit Loe Bar on Christmas eve in 1807, the conditions and the location made it a certain tragedy. Loe Bar is a...
At the end of the Great War, the Kaiser’s high seas fleet was interned at Scapa Flow, Orkney. Due to some miscommunication or maybe a lack...
I mentioned the subject of wrecks appearing and disappearing again in Part 1 of Cornish Wreck Ramblings (which you can read here). It can be quite a...
We are in a marvellous age of technology, where we can pinpoint a needle in a haystack within inches. In the days before GPS and even...
