Commercial diving: hardy, manly, tough. Tick tick tick. But it is a whole lot more – as I found out in the latter part of July when I embarked on my Health and Safety Executive (HSE) Scuba course with Andark Diving and Watersports, near Southampton, UK. A number of people had mentioned the HSE Scuba […]

  Apeks Marine Equipment Ltd was set up over 3 decades ago with one major initiative: to produce the best diving equipment in the world. The company was founded by Ken Ainscough – a keen diver and engineer. Thanks to his expert knowledge and understanding of the sport he realised dive equipment had major room […]

  The word “trim” will now only ever mean one thing to me. For anyone who has completed the Global Underwater Explorers (GUE) Fundamentals course you will know what I mean. For anyone that hasn’t…. it can best be described as a neutrally buoyant skydiver jump stance and god forbid should you not be demonstrating […]

  My quest to discover the treasures of UK diving continued during the first week of July. I took a trip to the far north of Scotland to dive Scapa Flow in Orkney – a wreck divers haven and considered one of, if not the, best dive site in the UK. As a Scot I […]

  The UK boasts some world-class dive spots, and yet before the start of my scholarship year I hadn’t explored even a fraction of these. The maximum water temperature in the UK is 19°C, the minimum is 4°C. Not warm! Nevertheless, I have taken it upon myself to start my scholarship year close to home… […]