By Simon Ellis The Italian novelist and philosopher Umberto Eco once said that “We write lists because we don’t want to die”. The following is a list of facts, falsehoods, and things that may or may not have happened when…

By Caroline Green and Andrew Cooper Well – what a trip! Lanzarote welcomed us with sunshine, warmth and a lovely sandy cove to base our diving from. And also lots of opportunity for non-dive entertainment well into the night.  And a lot of the group took that…

For most of us, our first tentative fin kicks in ‘open water’ are a dim distant memory. I asked some of this year’s trainees to remind us what it was like. Ocean Diver On the train down to Portland it…

By Peter Martin If you are new to RIB diving – that’s diving off a rigid inflatable boat, of which CLIDIVE owns two, pragmatically named ‘Yellow’ and ‘Blue’ – you could do worse than starting in Portland. The pontoon from…