You may have seen the BBC program some months back on the action of
some divers and concerned residents on Arran about fishing in Lamlash
Bay. The Community of Arran Seabed Trust, COAST, are attempting to
create a no-take zone in this area. This will hopefully restore the

Hi all, I have just done my PADI owd course whilst away on holiday and am
looking to keep the diving going now back at home in the UK.
Obviously as a new diver with only four dives under my belt I would like to
join a club or organisation in the uk (preferably in kent) have found

Change of plan and am going to the Maldives in February.  Before I book it,
has anyone been to the Lily Beach Resort (South Ari Atoll) ?  It's been
highly recommended by 2 people I know.
I've read every Maldives report on Jason Poynting's website, so any other

I've just picked up a Nik II very cheap and the only issue seems to be
that the focus ring in the lens is seized up.
Does anyone have a copy of the repair manual (or some diagrams) so that
I can check that what I'm doing  is right...

After my fabulous days diving on Sunday (Dive 1 - missed the mark, Dive 2 -
broke a fin strap) I decided that it was probably worth getting some more
spares together.
Given that my buddy's mozzy started fading in and out of conciousness at

Just a reminder that there are still some places on my trip to Weymouth in
December, aboard Skin Deep. See www.clearviz.co.uk/winterbreak.html for
details.
Steve

Anyone traveled to sharm with Mytravel? Any idea if they offer an additional
baggage allowane for us divers?

Anybody else at the NAS conference at Portsmouth this weekend?
nigelH
http://www.nasportsmouth.org.uk/newsandprojects/conference2004.htm

How tight should I have my hoses screwed into my regs?
cheers
Dan.

I dived the 16th Century wreck at the weekend - pics (not very good) are on
my website temporarily, www.chrystianne.com, (hit the british flag )along
with some corals taken from another hull (better pics) that was sunk in
there some 12 or so months ago.

Next September, we are off to South Africa and Mauritius for our honeymoon.
I want to use this opportunity to dive as much as possible.  I have dived
twice before and obtained the PADI Foundation certificate the second time.
My question is, will this foundation certificate enable ...

Been offered some free cylinders, they are all out of test ,,, expired mid
90's.
Is it worth taking these on, and putting them in for full test, visual
inspection & shot blasting if needed ?

No connection, just found it doing a search for twin set -
The ultimate James Bond toy, for the wannabe turtle back:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=16057&item=71127155
79&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

I have just received a bounce mail from Al's server of a message that
contained an executable (that I most certainly didn't send him) purporting
to have been from my Yahoo account.
One of you out there who has my yahoo address and Al's UKRS address in an

Looking to get my first underwater camera (excluding the cheap vivitar P&S I
had before)
There appears to be several MX10 & YS40 strobes around on ebay? Assuming you
find a good one, would this be a good camera to start with? or would