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Gourmet dive weeks
Sample a new type of diving experience every day and enjoy gourmet dinners every evening - that's the appealing idea behind a new dive festival in the Pacific archipelago of Palau, Micronesia.

DRYSUIT NORTHERN DIVER DIVEMASTER
THIS IS BY WAY OF A LONG-TERM TEST - an extraordinarily long-term test. Before the Chinese industrial revolution, back in1993, Mike Armitage invited me to visit his Northern Diver drysuit factory, then in Wigan, to see a new computerised cutting machine. 

LIGHT AQUA SUN D3 & D6
The single high-output 10W CREE chip LED of the D6 sits behind a steeply convex lens.

BC SEAC SUB MITO
The Mito is a wing-style BC that follows in the footsteps of a range of well-received BCs that probably started the drive to establish this company's diving products in the UK.

REGULATOR SCUBAPRO S555 / MK11T
REGULATORS GET BETTER AND BETTER and this is yet another good one. What makes it unique is that, as with the Atomic T2X the metal parts are of titanium, which is exceedingly strong, yet light in weight. 

REGULATOR ATOMIC T2X
ONE OF THE BEST-PERFORMING REGULATORS I have ever used is the Atomic T2. It was designed by Dean Garraffa after he left Scubapro. He and business partner Doug Toffs originally wanted to make the regulator for Scubapro, but the management of that branch of the big US corporation was focused only on the bottom line at the time, and wouldn't countenance it. So Dean and Doug started Atomic Aquatics, and the rest is history. 

REGULATOR SCUBAPRO A700 / MK25
GILBERT DE CORIOLIS, THE FRENCH-BORN TECHNICAL DIRECTOR of Scubapro, is passionate about the company's new regulator. It is the result of years of evolution, with several new technologies brought together to make a product that will be envied by many but probably owned only by the discerning few. 

What's in a name?
As the Maldives opens new areas to tourism, Tim Ecott explores the remote dive sites of Noonu Atoll. Photos by Koen Zuurbier

As the years go passing by
Howard Sawyer takes a cool, hard look at the business of diving wrecks on which people have died. Pictures by John Bantin.

My favourite kit
Rich Stevenson, 39, is a professional diver living and working in Plymouth. For 10 years he has owned and run dive-boats and, until recently, a coastal dive centre. His independent company now concentrates on rebreather training, underwater film operations and commercial diving charters on his new 9m RIB Ocean Venture. Involved in technical instruction since 1995, Rich was one of the UK's first IANTD Cave and Trimix Instructors, and is an IANTD and PSAI Instructor-Trainer

But they didn't train me for this!
Coping with various diving incidents is covered in training but, whichever agency taught you, some real-life incidents go beyond the scope of training. What would you do if you were involved in one of these? JOHN LIDDIARD asks six divers to talk him through how they would deal with six incidents

Shipwrecks Of Madagascar by Pierre Van Den Boogaerde
History lessons

Beyond The Portal by Paul Forman
Beyond belief 

Underwater Scilly by Tim Allsop & Anna Cawthray
Scilly season

Robert Ballard's Lusitania by Robert Ballard & Spencer Dunmore
For Lucy lovers 

Divers Of The Dark by Antti Apunen & Janne Suhonen
Beneath Budapest 

Falmouth Estuary & Helford River
Jane Wilkinson finds rays, scallops and champagne bottles among the pleasures of the Falmouth estuary and Helford river

Alternative Cornwall - Coverack and beyond
When those west winds blow, South Cornwall usually has good diving to offer in the lee of the Lizard. John Liddiard heads south of the Manacles to take in Coverack and points beyond.

Identity crisis
The attraction of wrecks to divers is often enhanced by a glamorous back-story. What happens, however, when a wreck is known to be historically significant, but its name is forgotten? A Channel ghost ship proves irresistible for Leigh Bishop

WRECKTOUR: 126 The Bangor
This small coaster lies in Strangford Lough and can be dived at any state of tide, says John Liddiard. Illustration by Max Ellis

Descent into the underworld
Yucatan's bizarre Angelita and awe-inspiring Gran Cenote are both unique experiences. You'll understand why the Mayans considered the cenotes the realm of the gods when you dive them, says Simon Morley

Cookies & T in the Taj Mahal
Want to feel at home in enclosed environments? Chris Boardman went to Mexico for GUE cave-diving training. Pictures by JP Bresser

Rock steady
It's cool and rainy in Croatia in spring, so not unlike home then for John Bantin. The big question was, would he find enough diversions under water?

Shake out in Egypt
The favourite holiday spot for British divers appears to have raised the bar for dive destinations the world over, with its new inspection system for dive centres. Has diving in Egypt just got a whole lot safer? Brendan O'Brien shadows the Chamber of Diving & Watersports inspectors to find out

The Big Question 67
Is shark-feeding endangering water-users?