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Autumn 2024 magazine preview

Letter from the Editor

The oceans are full of beautiful, glorious and colourful creatures - our latest Big Shot photo competition proves as much - but some of them are also a wee bit deadly, which Jenny Stock has helpfully sorted into an in-depth 'Top Trumps' style report!

A lot of people will associate those 'beautiful oceans' with the Coral Triangle, and Mark B Hatter's Aggressor Adventures liveaboard trip in Derawan brings us some of the most pristine, but we should never overlook the UK's waters, as Lewis Jefferies celebrates the fantastic diving around the furthest reaches of Cornwall and Rebecca Douglas explores the wilds of the opposite coastline in Kent.

We've also got extracts from (and reviews of) the books of Red Sea diving pioneer, Howard Rosenstein and underwater photo guru Alex Mustard, plus a report from St Helena's MPA and a look at the merits of working for dive training.

And you can get all of that in our fantastic print magazine - which comes with digital access to everything we've done since 2012 - for just £1!

Best wishes,

Graeme Gourlay, publisher

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In the beginning, there was Howard Rosenstein, a young American student who travelled to Israel in 1966 for a summer break and gave snorkelling a try. Within just a few years he had built the first dive base in Sharm El Sheikh and kickstarted an industry that now represents a significant percentage of Egypt’s GDP. In this extract from his brilliant book, Treasures, Shipwrecks and the Dawn of Red Sea Diving, Rosenstein recounts how the wreck of a ship named Jolanda would become one of the most important in the Red Sea.

Far across the Sulawesi Sea is a small group of islands that have so far managed to escape the ravages of mankind’s destruction and remain as pristine as the famous reefs of Raja Ampat. Mark B Hatter took an Aggressor Adventures liveaboard trip to the Derawan Islands, and fills us in on the spectacular underwater world he found..

If you eat it and you die, it’s poison; if it eats you and you die, it’s venom. Now we’ve got that sorted, diver, underwater photographer and BBC camerawoman, Jenny Stock, takes us through her version of the ‘Top Trumps’ of her childhood, with an in-depth guide to the most venomous creatures in our oceans, what happens if you get stung, and – if you survive – what treatment you’ll require...

Dr Alex Mustard is one of the best-known underwater photographers in the world, and in his latest book 52 Assignments in Underwater Photography, he provides a collection of exercises designed to flex the photographic muscle and get your brain working around how to use light, angles and composition to create the best underwater images. DIVE was lucky enough to get three of the exercises to share and get you thinking.

DIVE’s latest Big Shot underwater photography competition called for entrants to send us the Best and Brightest pictures they’ve ever taken – and the winners were so dazzling our judges had to don their shades to pick the decider! Check out the winners in all their glory as they were meant to be seen, printed on art-quality paper in our print magazine.

Three major ocean currents meet at the southwestern tip of the UK, where the combination of tides and currents creates the perfect conditions for a huge amount of biodiversity to thrive. Lewis Jefferies visits the most distant part of Cornwall to explore the Lizard Peninsula and its treacherous Manacles to enjoy the rich beauty of some of the best of the UK’s diving.

Although the Isle of Thanet in Kent is part of mainland Great Britain and no longer an island, in some ways it remains apart from the rest, something that resonated with photographer Rebecca Douglas, whose diagnosis with autism and ADHD in adulthood turned her attention the with wild edges of the UK’s coastline. Joanne O’Brien talks to Rebecca about her connection to the sea and latest exhibition.

The South Atlantic Island of St Helena is about the same size as the Scottish City of Edinburgh, but holds a large share of the responsibility for the management of a Marine Protected Area twice the size of Great Britain. Mark ‘Crowley’ Russell reports on how the Saints are tasked with looking after one of the most important MPAs on the planet.

The concept of working for free training is not new, and internships can be an excellent way to earn your stripes as a dive professional – but it has been soundly abused by unscrupulous businesses looking to cut labour costs. Mark ‘Crowley’ Russell reports on why PADI’s decision to formalise the concept may have beneficial implications for the industry as a whole.

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