Subject: DIVE Magazine - Conception captain appeals conviction, new travel platform launch, rare dep sea octopus spotted

Plus - our latest Featured Photographer, BSoUP Chair Nur Tucker

05 December 2025

Featured Photographer - Nur Tucker

Nur Tucker is an award-winning photographer and Chair of the British Society of Underwater Photographers, who fuses the technical aspects of underwater photography with fine art and light painting. Check out a fantastic portfolio of her work in our latest Featured Photographer column.

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New scuba gateway

A new scuba diving booking platform, which caters specifically to hotels and resorts within the dive industry is set to launch in January.

Conception captain appeals

Jerry Boylan, Captain of the MV Conception which caught fire in 2019 with the loss of 34 lives, is appealing his conviction.

Seven armed octopus

MBARI researchers have spotted a super-rare form of deep-sea octopus munching on jellyfish off the coast of California.

inReach update

Garmin launches an updated inReach Mini 3 Plus, now with added voice and photo messaging for the GPS tracking and SOS device.

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Autumn '25 magazine!

Our Autumn '25 magazine his here! Print copies have sold out already, but you can still subscribe to the digital version using our 3-month print and digital trial subscription for just £1 - and get the next magazine included! This autumn, we have a beautiful piece from Josef and Lenka Litt about the pygmy blue whales of Timor-Leste; Jenny Stock reports from the Turks & Caicos Aggressor II, and Melissa Hobson takes a look at the impact Jaws had on sharks over the last 50 years. Steve Pretty discusses the marvels of underwater sound with Natural History Museum principal curator Richard Sabin, Anthony Leydet shows us around Aqaba's military museum, and Mark 'Crowley' Russell reviews the new Garmin Descent S1 diver-surface communications buoy. Plus, of course, the winners of our latest Big Shot Patterns & Textures underwater photography competition!

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