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Diving deeper into Hurghada


Technical divers are flocking to Egypt, but many ignore the fantastic opportunities that Hurghada's Red Sea resort has to offer. Paul Vinten goes deep on some of the best technical dive sites. More

Story and photographs by Paul Vinten May 2006

 

A woman in a man's world...

Technical diving has always seemed the domain of red-blooded men, and female tech divers are relatively few and far between, but Sarah Fitzsimmons was determined to not let that faze her. More

Photographs by Beyond the Blue. November 2006

 

On a wing and a prayer

How to configure your kit is often a bone of contention in the technical diving world. Sim Marriott explains his set-up and why yours must also become instinctive. More

Text and illustrations by Sim Marriott Photographs by Jo Marriott. December 2006

The next generation of rebreather?

Mark Ellyatt is always up for a challenge, so when he was given the opportunity to try out a brand-new closed-circuit rebreather designed and built in Thailand, he threw caution to the wind and jumped right in.
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Text and photographs by Mark Ellyatt. February 2007

Diving Old Sara


The USS Saratoga is the world's largest diveable wartime wreck, but she is starting to seriously deteriorate after more than 60 years on the seabed. Fred Grieger was one of the last divers to enter her bridge and hangar deck before it collapsed - and this is his story. More

Text and photographs by Fred Greiger Additional photographs by Jeff Johnson and Jim Akroyd. March 2007

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