

Red Sea - Egypt - December 2025
Diving the 'Northern Wrecks and Reefs' Itinerary on board the Ghazala Adventure. This liveaboard boat is the latest edition to the Ocean Tribe fleet and to date is the best liveaboard experience I have had the pleasure to dive from. The boat launched in June 2025 and is fitted to a very high specification, the 43m steel-hull Ghazala Adventure hosts up to 26 guests in 12 air-conditioned cabins. Accommodation options include 9 twin cabins, 1 lower-deck suite, 1 single suite on


Egypt - Red Sea - December 2024
‘Simply the best’ This itinerary, Elphinstone reef, Daedalus reef , and the Brothers Islands (big brother and little brother) are referred to as ‘simply the best’ in this part of the Red Sea. I first dived this itinerary in 2005 and this is my third trip now diving ‘simply the best’. A mixture of reef , wall , and wreck diving this is some of the best diving the Red Sea has to offer. This time I sailed from Hurghada on board the Ghazala Explorer , a two year old liveaboard


Bahamas - Exuma Cays - December 2023
This was a long awaited trip and one that I have made before in December 2016 seven years ago exactly . I travelled solo again with Blackbeards Allstar Liveaboards spending two weeks on board their boats, 'Sea Explorer' and 'Morning Star'. We sailed the Exuma Cays diving the spectacular reefs there , and got to see some of the amazing marine life they have to offer. For added drama, the Exumas are just within the Bermuda Triangle, a string of 365 islands ripe for exploring, a


My dive life
I started diving in 1990 after a try dive with a Spanish friend of mine whilst I was living in Spain at the time. It was a memorable event to say the least! but it gave me the dive bug none the less. I returned to the UK not long after that and had my mind set on becoming a Commercial Diver!, thoughts of earning my living doing something I loved was a wonderful thought so I looked into the training involved to reach that goal. I trained as a B.S.A.C Sport diver to begin with














