DIVE Magazine - Winter 2023 magazine preview

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Winter 2023 magazine preview

Letter from the Editor

For many people, diving is a life-changing experience. For Todd Thimios, a stroke of good fortune set him on a path that - years later - would see him freediving with the most powerful of marine predators, face-to-face with a pod of orcas and their closely-guarded offspring.

For instructor Nigel Craig, a scuba diving tragedy changed his life in a way that nobody could have predicted, and certainly not for the better, but his terrible misfortune may help save the lives of many other divers in the future, if his story can be heard.

Ultimately, the power of the ocean is a majestic thing, but we must never let ourselves become complacent to the way - for better or for worse - that it can change our lives.

Best wishes,

Graeme Gourlay, publisher

In 2016, experienced instructor, Nigel Craig, was teaching a deep specialty course at Stoney Cove in the UK when, tragically, his student became unresponsive during the safety stop and later died. Four years later, Craig was informed he would be prosecuted for Gross Negligence Manslaughter, and for the next two years was put through a hell from which he has yet to recover. Mark ‘Crowley’ Russell explores why he should never have been put on trial, and why – had the scuba diving world been quicker to understand the dangers of Immersion Pulmonary Oedema – perhaps none of this would have happened.

Like many reefs around the world where development has overtaken the local environment’s ability to self-sustain, the coral around the tiny Caribbean island of Mustique took a battering. In 2015, however, Candian rock musician Bryan Adams brought coral restoration experts to the island to start a reef regeneration programme. Douglas David Seifert took to the water to explore how life on Mustique’s reefs has started to return, bringing the underater world to life with more of his stunning photography.

It is the single largest mass migration of life on the planet, and yet almost nobody ever sees it happening. Every day, billions of tiny creatures swim to the surface of the ocean to feed, and then head back down to the depths before the break of dawn, bringing with them a host of predators during the process. In an extract from Planktonia, The Nightly Migration of the World’s Smallest Creatures, Erich Hoyt brings the marvel of this migration to life, with some beautiful blackwater macro photography.

When a teenage Todd Thimios watched a killer whale documentary, it began a lifelong appreciation for the majestic orca. When he was sent to film them by a wealthy, super-yacht owning employer, his life changed. In the following years his appreciation grew almost into an obsession with catching the ocean’s apex predator at home in the Arctic waters of Northern Norway. Todd has shared his experience with DIVE, together with some of the most oustanding orca images that have ever been taken.

Reviews of some of the most recent dive-related books you need to add to your collection | The best of our Featured Photographers this winter | Marine Curio 29 – the shame-faced crab | plus an interview with the women behind up-and-coming luxury dive tour operator, Reefscape Travel.

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DIVE Magazine is created with some of the best writing and underwater photography in the world. Much more than a simple guide to the latest widgets for your scuba gear, we explore in-depth (pun absolutely intended) stories from the world's oceans, from the pristine reefs of remote islands to the devastating consequences of unsustainable human activity. We produce four art-quality coffee-table print publications each year, plus an app and webviewer through which you can access all of our latest content and more than 100 of our back-issues in digital format.

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