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Ticking Off Your Bucket List: Understanding Your Subject

17 Sep, 2025

Yellow cup corals and pink encrusting algae, Ustica, Italy. Photo by Lawson Wood.

Ustica Island: Diving the Legendary Island of Circe in the Tyrrhenian Sea

10 Sep, 2025

Soma Bay: Dykning i Det Egyptiske Røde Hav

14 aug, 2022

Scapa Flow: WWI Wreck Legacy & Recent Discoveries

27 Aug, 2019

User Review: The Olympus Tough TG-5

11 Sep, 2017

Golfe-Juan on the French Riviera

06 Jan, 2015

Cayman Brac: The best shore diving in the Caribbean

02 May, 2014

Diving with Seals of the Farne Islands

23 Apr, 2013 Lawson Wood

False Killer Whales — Enchanting Cetaceans of Dominica

13 Oct, 2011

Scapa Flow - The Wrecks of Scotland’s Orkney Islands

13 Oct, 2011 Lawson Wood WWI Wrecks , WWII Wrecks

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Marine Life of the North Sea and English Channel

Lawson Wood’s Marine Life of the North Sea and English Channel is an extensive guide dedicated to the exploration and understanding of the diverse marine ecosystems found between the British Isles and the coasts of northern France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway and southern Sweden.

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Technically Speaking

Simon Pridmore's aim in writing this book was to examine and record where technical diving came from, how it developed, how it expanded across the world, who the important movers were and how the efforts of a few determined people changed our little field of human endeavour forever.

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Reefs of Time

In Reefs of Time, geoscientist and science educator Lisa S. Gardiner offers a compelling and accessible exploration of how fossil coral reefs can inform our understanding of the threats facing reefs today.

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Secret Seas

Professional underwater photographer, Paul Flandinette and marine scientist and underwater photographer Michel Claereboudt take the reader on a breathtaking journey of discovery into Oman's underwater world.

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