ScubaBrucie

Nemo 33, for those that don’t know, is a unique divesite in Brussels, Belgium. Think of it as an overgrown swimming pool, or as an inland divesite that has been roofed over. The name comes from it being 33 metres (over 100 feet) deep and from the water temperature being kept at 33C. Their website [...]

 Having been to Bonaire at exactly the same time last year we knew what to expect. One difference is that I had a small target in sight starting the holiday on 931 dives, so I needed 69 dives in 19 days to get to 1,000, an average of just over 3.6 per day.  Supposedly Brazilian [...]

Having dived the Thistlegorm a few times over the last eight years, I think that I don’t want to dive it again. The best thing for me on the dive now is the turtle. Once the Thistlegorm was a time capsule, a window on a world when Hitler was all-triumphant and Britain fought pluckily against [...]

Imagine a dive location where the stewardesses and flight crew on your plane out are divers. Where the hire cars are nearly all pickup trucks with a tank rack in the back. Where even the waiters and bar staff are wearing dive computers. Where you just pay for so many days diving and then just [...]

Mahon harbour is supposed to be the second biggest natural harbour in the world after Pearl Harbour. So for over two thousand years it has been very busy as a commercial port and as a naval base. The massive harbour fortifications, the biggest in Europe, give testament to how important this place was. That it [...]

It’s not big and it’s not clever but we were well pleased with ourselves. Also I am sure that UK sump diver do far more every day. The Dive Site. Phil’s Crack is a cave site in Menorca. As you swim along the wall there is a boulder the size of a bus, behind is [...]

There isn’t much in Salgar. A hotel, lots of villas, a few apartments, a car hire place, supermarket, bar and a couple of tourist tat shops. There is no real beach. There is, however an excellent dive centre, Salgar Diving. British run, friendly and been there for years. They also obey all the rules, have [...]

10 more dives bringing my Menorca total to 53 this year and my running total to 931. Air fare was £50 return plus £36 taxes using the Monarch scheduled out of Birmingham. Stayed with my mother http://www.binifadet14.com/ who is selling her house and used her car. 10 dives with Salgar diving (they don’t dive Sunday [...]

Part One: Firstly I would like to apologise to all the lizards who have gone to meet their maker (or not, depending on your faith). It wasn’t deliberate and it wasn’t personal, in fact I even tried to avoid you. But if you choose to dart under my wheels at the last second there isn’t [...]

Different dive locations seem to have special emphasis on different aspects on diving. On Sharm it’s training, Manado it’s photography, Puerto Galera it’s tech and on Bonaire there is a great emphasis on underwater naturalism and fish ID. This is probably the result of having at least 4 specialists there: Dee Scarr, http://www.touchthesea.com/ , of [...]