Indonesia’s Komodo island is home not only to the famous Komodo Dragon but also some of Asia’s most spectacular diving. Experience the smorgasbord of different dive conditions and incredible underwater life within this still largely unexplored marine park. Read more »

Manta Rays traditionally appear en masse at the beginning of the dive season in Koh Lanta, and this year is no exception. This week up to four mantas have been seen together around Koh Lanta’s dive sites Read more »

In 2005 the final resting place of the American WWII submarine USS Lagarto was discovered in the Gulf of Thailand. This is an account by technical diving instructor Ayesha Cantrell of diving the Legarto on a subsequent research exploration dive Read more »

Lonely Planet’s Thailand Diving And Snorkelling Guidebook is packed with amazing underwater images but quite thin on the info you need to get the most out of the country’s incredible scuba diving Read more »

My good friend Ayesha Cantrell recently became a Technical Diving Instructor, one of the few women to take on the challenges of going below 60 metres and teaching others how to enter this amazing but hostile environment. Here she describes what attracted her to tech diving and why she did her tech courses in Thailand Read more »

Koh Losin is one of Thailand’s dive sites not known to many divers, only accessible for a couple of months a year and a place where both manta rays and whale sharks are regularly spotted Read more »

The peacock mantis shrimp is one of my all time favourite underwater critters, and on my recent trip to Davao in the Philippines I managed to get some pretty good shots of this amazing creature Read more »

Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the water… it is. Rumours about there being great white sharks in Thailand are greatly exaggerated. Read more »

Looking at the cover of the latest issue of Chinese dive magazine DiverChannel, I suddenly realised that the fin of the featured diver looked very familiar. It was me! Read more »

The third and final part of my trip report about three days of scuba diving in Palau in June 2007 on board the Big Blue Explorer liveaboard. Read more »