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23 stories for“boat travel”
DAN warns that remote liveaboard incidents rose sharply in 2024-2025. Divers can reduce risk by checking oxygen, drills, charging rules, exits and evacuation plans before sailing.
Aug 2, 2026
Two men and a woman surfaced from a dive at Canyon Reef, found no boat, and were carried kilometres out. Whether lost divers are found has surprisingly little to do with the search itself.
Aug 18, 2026
Three Egyptian dive bases, three different Red Seas. Here is what Hurghada, Sharm el-Sheikh and Dahab each actually deliver underwater.
Feb 14, 2024
Compact geography, shore access, wrecks and a new six-person hyperbaric unit make Gozo an unusually practical Mediterranean base for a mixed-experience dive trip.
Jul 25, 2026
The Gulf coast rarely gets mentioned in dive travel guides, but Fujairah and the Musandam peninsula quietly deliver some of the region's best reefs.
Nov 3, 2024
The Philippines' remote World Heritage reef rewards careful planning with walls, sharks, turtles and a conservation model built around a short liveaboard season.
Jul 25, 2026
DAN is a name every diver knows, but membership and dive accident insurance are not the same thing. Here is what each one actually buys you.
Jun 30, 2025
Diving emergencies far from shore involve costly medical evacuations and coordination. Here is how that response is actually funded and organised, and who calls the shots.
Jun 25, 2026
Dahab's Blue Hole draws freedivers year round for a reason: shore access to real depth, warm water, forgiving conditions and an established training community.
Nov 14, 2025
New resorts, new dive licences and a scaled-back masterplan. Here is the real state of Saudi Arabia's Red Sea diving push, not the pitch deck version.
Feb 10, 2026
Oman splits its diving into two distant reserves, one a protected reef north of Muscat, the other a remote wreck-strewn archipelago in the south.
Mar 15, 2025
One demands breath control and stillness, the other demands equipment discipline. Here is what separates them and where beginners should start.
Jun 24, 2025
The Indian Ocean hosts some of diving's biggest animal encounters. The rules for approaching them properly matter more than most divers realise.
Sep 12, 2025
MNDF Sergeant Major Mohamed Mahudhee died searching a Maldives cave for five missing divers. His death shows the risk that recovery divers accept on behalf of strangers.
May 24, 2026
Manufacturers compete on brightness because it is a single large number. Underwater, beam angle, burn time at full output and the switch you can operate in gloves decide whether a torch is any good.
Sep 5, 2026
The agencies argue endlessly and the accident data barely distinguishes between them. Here is what genuinely differs, what does not, and the questions to ask a dive centre before you pay.
Aug 13, 2026
Global Underwater Explorers standardises equipment, teaches in teams, tests fitness, and hands out provisional passes rather than certificates. It is the most divisive system in diving, and the most internally consistent.
Aug 12, 2026
The Maldives is not one dive destination but hundreds of atolls with different currents. Here is how the calendar actually decides what you see.
Aug 9, 2024
A French submarine at 36 metres, a 1939 freighter at 40, and a Victorian battleship far beyond recreational limits. Lebanon's coast is a wreck list before it is a reef.
Aug 6, 2026
