Poseidon's Parlour

OK, so last year - with the volume of dives I did - I found it difficult keeping up. In fact, the volume of diving somewhat overwhelmed my ...

I'm told that the story of Santorini in the Cyclades forms the basis of the Atlantis myth when the so named Minoan Eruption wiped out...

I was had convinced Jester and the Big Easy that Conger Alley would offer us a great location for a night dive. I can't explain why, I...

The diving gods were kind to me in 2018, and set a trend that seems to be continuing into 2019, as myself and Gill.I.Am took advantag...

Apeks RK3 Despite sounding a little like a droid from a Star Wars film and also being the actual name of a blaster used by the Galactic ...

With Christmas holidays fast approaching I took the decision that I could sleep later in the week and so embarked on 4 dives over three s...

When my local dive shop arranged a Mares Try Dive Day at Caolasnacon I was always going to be on it like sonnet. I had wanted to try...

The end of summer is definitely approaching. The sea may  stay warmer for a few weeks and then starts to cool for winter. With that and min...

Despite being a bank holiday somewhere in the world, but not Scotland, it certainly felt as though Jester and I were enjoying the last of t...

I like taking people down to where they've never been before. So after the wedding of two divers at Cairndow myself and the Chairman he...

When the Barrman suggested I could join him to dive the Breda  I was happy to jump at the chance. I was off that week and happy to head to ...

I'm still pretty new to the instructing thing, despite being a reasonably experienced diver. In some ways, I'm learning how to talk...

When a relatively new company Wreckspeditions put up an offer to dive the Greenock Dredger on a warm sunny night, myself, the Wylie Fox...

When Chairman G asked me to take him deep, I decided to return to the site of my own Scotsac Deep Diving course. We kitted up and headed d...

There are few dives on the planet where your maximum depth is below the seabed. There are fewer like that still that you'd also dive in...

Our fourth day on ‘the Flow’ saw us dive our first Battleship. The  SMS Kronpronz Wilhelm  was the the target followed by a ‘shallow’ dive o...

I've done St Abb's already this year, but this time myself and the Wylie Fox were warming up for Scapa Flow in June so we turned ou...

The day started on a small reef named Habili Gafar, a small pinnacle that took around 10 minutes to circumnavigate. For the briefest of mom...