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What's inside this month?
News round-up
The formation of the UK Ghost Gear Coalition, Virgin Pure partners with PADI AWARE Foundation, the resurrection of Divernet, and RAID announces no membership fees.
DAN Europe Medical Q&A
The Divers Alert Network experts answer more queries, including about air consumption.
Divers Alert Network
In the first of a five-part series, Audrey Cudel asks ‘are you missing any of your foundational diving skills?’.
Our World-Underwater Scholarship
The return of the regular Scholarship column, introducing this year’s Scholar, Arzucan Askin.
Scotland
Lawson Wood explains how you don’t need to travel around the globe to exotic locations to find quality ‘muck diving’, and shows what can be found in Scotland’s sea lochs.
Q&A with Walt Stearns
Underwater photographer and writer Walt Stearns has been a staple on the diving scene for decades, and is Editor-at- Large on our North American title, Scuba Diver Destinations. We chat to him about the challenges of blackwater diving, his affinity for Goliath grouper, and why he loves his CCR.
Underwater Photography
If you want to get an impressive wide-angle photo, there are a few compositional elements you can always rely on. The Snell’s window is one of them, but what is it?
Australia
Scuba Diver Senior Travel Editor Don Silcock ventures off South Australia in search of breeding aggregations of giant Australian cuttlefish.
Scuba Santa
Hordes of Santa-suit-wearing divers heading towards frigid waters can mean only one thing – the annual return of the Vobster Santas event. This year, Mark Evans and his son Luke ventured to Somerset to join in the festive fun.
TECH: Sweden
Phil Short has been involved in the major archaeological project revolving around the Gribshunden wreck in the Baltic for a number of years. Here he recounts what it is like to dive into history.
What's New
Scuba Diver Editor-in-Chief Mark Evans looks at new products to market, including the Ammonite System T-valve, DivePro S17 LED dive light, the Fourth Element Storm poncho, the Nautilus strobe, and Scubapro’s S-Tek range. Plus, a sneak peek of the Fourth Element Scout mask!
Test Extra
Scuba Diver Editor-in-Chief Mark Evans and his son Luke put the Fourth Element J2 baselayer to the test as water temperatures head into single digits.
