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A ‘Just Culture’ in Clidive?

For more years than I care to remember, I’ve been giving diving lectures that are all, to some extent, about managing risk and being safe. I particularly enjoy doing the one that includes the ‘incident pit’, because I have a…

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So good, you’ll fall off your chair – Marseilles, week 1 (September 2017)

Words: Jonathan Perlmutter/Pictures: Simon de Lotz Our party of nine fumbled its way, by plane, by train and by automobile, along the humid underbelly of Europe, until we were met with a peninsula, which had the town of Hyeres at…

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Madeira mischief – 13-22 October 2017

By Harriet Cross & Emma Rigby Preeda had the fantastic idea of arranging a trip to Madeira, a surprisingly green Portuguese island 400km north of the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean. It is positioned in the Gulf Stream so…

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A diver’s dream in a lost world…- Porthkerris, Cornwall, 14-17 July 2017

By Susie Hall de Silva & Preeda Harish Kumar Arriving at Porthkerris is one of those truly jaw dropping moments. Crossing the moors and winding through verdant country lanes, a crest of a hill and…the ‘wow’ moment. High on the…

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Expedition Summer Isles (Scotland): 5-12 August 2017

By Eleanor Partridge The Summer Isles are a group of small, mostly uninhabited islands located just off the coast of Loch Broom, in the far northwest of Scotland. The area had been on Clidive’s radar for a while but undived…

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