Special coverage of the Red Sea including Brothers Islands with Christopher Bartlett, a journey from Cairo to El Quseir with Barb Roy, and Elphinstone with JP Bresser; Interview with Archim Schlöffel; Communing with cuttlefish with Seanna Cronin; Kimbe Bay’s Zero Wreck with Don Silcock; Bell Island wrecks with Robert Osborne; Peter Symes and David Hall on hooded nudibranchs; Giant manta rays of Ecuador with Mark Harding; Diving Timor Leste with Don Silcock; How to photograph sharks with Andy Murch; Michael Menduno interviews the late PADI co-founder, John Cronin; Muck diving photography with Lawson Wood; Michel Braunstein takes us to a unique dive site in the Dead Sea. Plus news and discoveries, equipment and training news, books and media, underwater photo and video equipment, turtle news, shark tales, whale tales and much more...

The Red Sea: Discover Nuweiba with Charles Stirling and Taba with Peter Symes; Charles Stirling also takes us to the Canary Islands' oasis of Lanzarote; Discover the Wanli wreck with Carol Tedesco; Bonnie McKenna interviews cave diver, Jill Heinerth; Learn the do's & don't's of shark diving with Andy Murch; Educate yourself on managing narcosis with Dr Barry Fowler; How to use flash in underwater photography with Lawson Wood; Don Silcock shows us the B17 Black Jack wreck in Papua New Guinea; plus news and discoveries, equipment and training news, underwater photo and video equipment, squid news, shark tales, whale tales and much more...

Daniel Brinckmann and Scott Johnson on the wonders of Yap; Barb Roy and Wayne Grant on liveaboard diving on the Nautilus Swell in Port Hardy, BC, Canada; Dive team, Kelly LaClaire and Kate Clark, on diving Southern Belize; Elaine Kwee on dive volunteerism; Brian Keegan on a new tech wreck park in Sweden; Tyge Dahl Hermansen on mangroves; Aaron Gekoski on the broadnose sevengill shark in South Africa; AquaCorps Bob Halstead discusses the buddy system; Flash photography by Lawson Wood; Qian Dao Lake in China with Don Silcock; plus news and discoveries, equipment news, photo and video equipment, dive books, shark tales, whale tales and much more...

Special coverage of the Cayman Islands by two renown residents -- take a tour with Cathy Church and Lawson Wood to Cayman Brac, Little Cayman, Stingray City and the new artificial reef of the USS Kittiwake off Grand Cayman Island. Don Silcock takes us to the mystical haven of Halmahera in the Maluku Islands. Read Rob Rondeau on the issue of wrecks leaking fuel; Mark Powell on the intricacies of team diving; Aaron Gekoski on the shark finning crisis in Mozambique and the documentary film, Shiver; Keri Wilk on the use of snoots in underwater photography; Oceanic design inspired by the sea; Artist Sayaka Kajita Ganz on her wondrous fish sculptures made of reused plastic and metal objects; plus current news about recent discoveries in marine ecology and shipwrecks, new equipment, industry and training events, travel tips, sharks, whales, dolphins, sea turtles, and more...

Palau’s Treasures: A Diver’s Addiction by Todd Essick :: A Photographer’s Playground by Michael AW | A Gourmet Fiesta Diversity by Svetlana Murashkina :: Profile: Francis Toribiong by Arnold Weisz | Sunglasses for Divers by Kelly LaClaire | Freshwater Diving Austria by Wolfgang Pölzer | Unique Site: Pavillion Lake, British Columbia by Barb Roy | Portfolio: Kendahl Jan Jubb edittted by Gunild Symes | Shark Tales: The Grey Nurse Shark by Don Silcock | Dive Medicine: Cold & Hypothermia by Dr Carl Edmonds | Tech Talk: Technical Diving Skills by Mark Powell | UW Photo: A spects of Preparation by Lawson Wood

Antarctic Peninsula Edited by Michael Aw :: Greenland Expedition by Morten Beier :: The Russian Arctic: History & Development by Svetlana Murashkina :: Diving The Central Arctic by Svetlana Murashkina :: Profile: Göran Ehlmé by Peter Symes :: New Equipment Edited by Wayne Fenior :: Travel: Cruise Boat Diving by Mike Keleher :: Ecology: Shifting Baselines by Christina Ward-Paige :: Interview: Diving With Legends’ Pete Miller by Bonnie Mckenna :: Sharks: Refugees of The Gulf Oil Spill by Andy Murch :: Tech Talk: Good On Air by Asser Salama :: U/W Photo: Why Digital? by Lawson Wood :: Maximo Laura: Galapagos Tapestries by Gunild Symes

Eric Cheng's encounter of the third degree with Sperm whales off Dominica. Stingrays: Winged Wonders of the Canary Islands by Andy Murch. Red groupers transform undersea landscapes. Fish Communicate in Secret. Shrimp found under the Antarctic ice. New website for jellyfish affectionados. The boomerang and a ten million dollar lawsuit brought against Scubaboard. Purple Heart Dive Team develops dive program for Purple Heart recipients. In the Future: Architecture on the ocean. Airliner becomes new dive site in England. Diver badly burned by heat packs in freak accident. Disabled Divers International. Underwater CSI training course. 800-year-old shipwrecks found in Baltic Sea. Bronze age wreck found off Devon. The battle for Ancona’s bounty. Wreck from 600 B.C. discovered off Spain. The Treasures Within the Treasure. Travel News
Cozumel - Tech Talk: Choosing a Tech Instructor. Profile : Rich Walker, GUE's Technical manager. Wrecks & Treasure : Cris Woloszak's Hot Rod Sea Sculpture.

Solomon Islands by Steve Jones :: Amos Nachoum - Great White Dive :: Oman - Desert Diving by Charles Stirling : Scotland's Sounds of Mull & Oban by Steve Jones :: The Canadian Tech Trail by Barb Ron & Ron Akeson :: Diving Moscow River :: The latest Buoyancy Control Devices :: Wide angle photography :: Paddlewheel steamer found in the Canadian sub-Arctic ::

East Africa :: Tanzania - Pemba and Unguja :: Mozambique :: Salmon Swims in Paris again :: Marine Protected Areas in the Pacific, Scandinavia, Brazil and elsewhere :: Record Diver Pascal Bernabés anatomy of a deep exploration :: Scapa Flow by Lawson Wood :: Sharks are also teenagers :: Skokumchuuk rapids :: Seeing Wrecks with Sound :: Photographing Caves :: Japanese Brazilian artist, Marcelo Tatsuyoshi Kato

Bikini Atoll - Expedition to the wrecks of Operation Crossroads :: Aftermath — at the nuclear playground :: Journey to Bikini Atoll :: Wrecks of Kwajalein Atoll in
the Marshall Islands. Leatherback Turtle Report from
Papua New Guinea :: Profiling Odyssey Marine :: Yoga & Dive :: Tech Talk: Why Technical Diving :: UW Photography: Illumination :: Portfolio Ana Bikic

Bali revisited - a comprehensive followup by Scott Bennett, Lawson Woods, Andrea Ferrari and Don Silcock. Cedric Verdier explains the Seven Sins for rebreather divers. Andrey Bizyukin takes us to see the White Whales in the Russian Artic while Kurt Amsler shows us to photograph without flash. Mathias Carvalho interviews diving legends and eco-warriors Ron and Valerie Taylor. Are the Puget Sound Orcas starving, why are sharks capable of swimming so fast and where do the jellyfish invasions come from? If you are out of ideas for presents take a look in the Shopping section. Pierre Sentjens is this months featured artists

Dive into South Africa where Andrey Bizyukin visits the Wild Coast, Ralf Kiefner takes awesome photographs of Sardine Run, and Harald Apelt profiles Rainer Schimpf's adventure playground for experts in Port Elizabeth where first-ever images capture orcas hunting dolphins! Apelt also takes us to another Mediterranean pearl -- Tamariu of Spain, while Simon Kong reports on MIDE and shows us paradise reborn on Pulau Weh, Aceh, Indonesia, after the 2004 tsunami, with colorful photographs by Asther Lau. Arnold Weisz highlights some of the success stories in marine conservation, while Swedish Coast Guard Commander Carl-Gustav von Konow discusses diving with dumped chemical weapons in the Baltic. Cedric Verdier offers an excellent Buyer's Guide to Rebreathers full of tips and advice. Kurt Amsler shows us how to maintain and care for our underwater photography gear, and Tim Hochgrebe brings us the winners of Underwater.com.au's photo competition. GirlDiver Cindy Ross takes on the challenge of the Mark V Hard Helmet. Explore Mulnar Janos cave under the streets of Budapest with JP Bresser, and view the exquisite portfolio of stainless steel sculptor and diver, Jo Wooler of Australia.

In X-RAY MAG issue #23, Mark Webster takes on a tour through the fascinating underwater world off Cornwall, England. We talk with Pascal Bernabé for insights into his achievements in deep diving. Science editor, Michael Symes, investigates locomotion of sea creatures, and we look at Hammerhead sharks and their unique head shape. Harald Apelt brings us to another pearl in the Mediterranean -- beautiful, historic Croatia. Kurt Amsler discusses proper workflow in digital photography. Rebreather pro, Cedric Verdier, gets us up to speed on physical fitness for divers and DIR for rebreather divers. Girldiver Cindy Ross discusses sunscreen and gives us the skinny on sunrays and skin cancer. We meet the Bubbling Reefs of Denmark, and a diverse portfolio of ocean art from artists around the world tops it all off. Plus the news -- on marine ecology, discoveries, ship wrecks, conservation, equipment, travel, divers, record breakers, books and films, turtles, sharks, whales, jellyfish and more...

Tawali on Papua New Guinea is narrated by Andrey Bizyukin and supplemented with photographs by Wulf Koehler. In the Mediterranean we visit the island of Elba. Leigh Cunningham takes us into a cave under Ras Muhammad (Egyptian Red Sea). Now where things are heating up, learn what Temperature really means. Or what goes on with Sex on the reef. No February issue without Valentines' gifts. We interview Richard Pyle about ecology, rebreathers, Pyle stops and being a nerd

FIJI: Scott Bennett went to the far side of the Pacific and got the Royal treatment. Red Sea: Wreck hunter and author Peter Collings shows what all the latest craze is all about.

Our Norwegian friends takes us for spin in Saltstraumen, the most powerful drift dive on the planet - so buckle up.

Find out where all the noise in the Ocean come from and check out the Fall dive fashion before we go visit SeaCam and have a talk with Harald Hordosch about what it takes to become successful. Cerdic Verdier explains how to Bail out on a rebreather.

And finally Michel Ribera takes on a very spooky dive in the Parisian Netherworld - come see what the Catacombs hold. The Grande finale is presented by Zena Holloway - some amazing photography there

Red Sea - behind the scene Egypt and Saudi Arabia. FINS + interview of Bob Evans. How coral reefs change. Kurt Amslers photoschool: Macro. Safety margins on a rebreather. The Science of Salinity. Sun protection for divers. Mermaid Matters: Mascara: Medical issues: Nasal Irrigation

Cave Diving theme issue. YUCATÀN - Mexico's "Riviera Maya" ::
Varonya Cave in Caucasus :: How Caves are created :: Interview with pioneer Bill Stone :: Equipment and training.
Shopping for Valentine's Day - New Equipment
REGULATORS: How to chose - How do the Work - Freezing & FreeFlowing - Understanding the Breathing Diagram. SCIENCE: Visibility
Tech: The Lady and the president. Profile: Sue Dudas

Travel: Bernardo Sambra and Jason Heller takes us on an adventure to amazing Galapagos, while Barb Roy guides around Vancouver Island.
Drysuits! Dressing up right for fall diving: 13 packed spreads with (almost) everything you ever wanted to know about drysuit diving. And to cater for the after-diving, a Dive Fall Fashion section. There are some very cool watches too. As for side dishes we got plenty of News about people, training issues, Whales & Dolphins, Sharks and Turtles, New Books and oh... Did you know why Water is Blue? Also in the science section: Medicines from the Ocean.

Cedric Vedier takes us down on a WW2 Japanese Battleship and as t he eye candy in the end some amazing paintings by Carlos Hiller

Patagonia, Argentina. El Hierro, the Canary Islands, Coral Bleaching and Global Warming. Crossing the Atlantic on a research vessel. The Conveyor Belt, the oceans global circulation. Building reefs on the Maldives. Cosmetics for Divers. Leigh Cunningham: The Wake-up call. Travelling with Camera Equipment. Japanese wrecks off Palau. Portfolio: Patrick Chevalier.

FOCUS: PHILIPPINES: Dumaguate - Ligpo Island - Malapascua - Dauin - Profile: Phil Nyutten :: Guadalupe Sharks :: Worlds Deepest Wreck Dive :: Portfolio: Ray Troll : Valentines Gifts :: The First Frogmen, part 2 :: Nova Scotia :: Photography and Travelling ... and much more more

BALI - visiting Tulamben. Science: Salt of the sea. Conservation: Mangrove. Polluce wreck. The first frogment. The Techni-sub story. Royal Tasmania. Portfolio: A tribute to Michael Portelly. Technical matters: Going solo or not? Photography: Manipulation? Ecology: Anemone city Profile: Miranda Krestovnikoff. Science: Drinking seawater

The other side of Cayman Islands - Sister Islands - Bloody Bay Wall - Coral Spawning - free diving world record. Cave diving in Siberia. Philippines: Cabilao. Norway: the wrecks at Narvik - one of the biggest naval battlegrounds of WW2. Finding the U-89 off Ireland. Visiting Fourth Element Interviewing Cathy Church, photographer extraordinaire. Sam MacDonald marine metal sculptures. Ecology: tagging whale sharks. Photography: Going digital. Science: Hydrothermal vents