The rain has now stopped and the sun is shining. Pastis et saucission is served before the 3 course lunch. Normal service is resumed. We headed off across the bay to dive on the islands east of Marseille where there…

The med is dead, right? Seems not, actually. After a couple of dives here, it seems the place is thick with fish. Big shoals of all sorts of things, plus nudibranches, octopuses and a large wreck thrown in to boot.…

Marseille in September: the gorgeous, warm and lovely home of Cousteau and diving itself. We arrived to the crack of thunder, in a tropical downpour with the locals making dark mutterings about les rosbif having brought ze weather with them.…

Each year, we try to do a trip to dive some of the deeper wrecks out of Portland. Sometimes the weather plays ball. Sometimes it doesn’t. Last weekend, it did. Blazing sunshine and calm (enough) seas to head around Portland…