News round-up
A new dive centre in Queensland, Diveplanit expands into New Zealand, cave-diving record in South Africa, a new liveaboard in Egypt, and the Solomons opens back up.
DAN Medical Q&A
The Divers Alert Network experts discuss benignparoxysmal positional vertigo, and flying after diving.
Australia
How many divers love to travel overseas for a dive holiday? Jayne Jenkins has somewhere to satisfy a love of muck on the doorstep.
Palau
If you like ‘big stuff’, Palau is the capital. Diveplanit Travel’s Deborah Dickson-Smith shares a few reasons to add Palau to your dive bucket list.
Mexico
Mike Bartick heads for Cozumel, Mexico, in search of more weird-and-wonderful blackwater subjects.
Underwater Photography
How to get that ‘wow factor’ from Big Scene Wide Angle.
Big animals
Giant manta rays Encounters with large marine creatures are always special, but few are as downright awesome as being in the presence of the giant oceanic manta ray, as Don Silcock explains.
Diving with… Carl Charter
PT Hirschfield chats to co-founder of South Australia’s Experiencing Marine Sanctuaries (EMS) Carl Charter.
Divers Alert Network Asia-Pacific The DAN team explain how to avoid the ‘three Ds’ – distraction, discomfort and disorientation.
TECH: Egypt
Kurt Storms explores the tragic shipwreck of the Salem Express in the Egyptian Red Sea.
Indonesia
Walt Stearns continues his odyssey aboard the Arenui liveaboard as it plies the waters around Flores.
Test Extra
Scuba Diver Editorial Director was among the first people in the world to dive the Oceanic+ app on the Apple Watch Ultra, and here he presents a comprehensive review on what the app – and the smartwatch – are like to dive.
Conservation Corner
Aussie start-up Ocean Armour giving single-use plastic a new life.