Reviews
Hydrotac stick on bi-focal lens
Age will weary and mean changes to gear configuration.........the first being a loss of close up vision!
Santi BZ400X 'Extreme' thermal undersuit
I must be getting soft in my old age....five years ago no hood or gloves at any time of the year, then I started with a hood, then gloves, then dry gloves and now this a new undersuit as the 4th Element kit doesn't seem to be 'cutting it' in the winter!
Otter Britannic Superskin Drysuit
What with one thing and another I am looking at changing from a neoprene to membrane drysuit, I am hoping that a more pliable suit makes manouvering with my 'aging' back a tad easier, so where to go? After some investigation and talking with other divers it was time for a trip to Bradford!
Air-Lift for budding treasure hunters
A bit of an odd-ball...........I guess that this is more a review of instructions more than the air-lift that I made.
Kubi dry glove system
I do feel that having been diving for more than 30 years I am due some luxuries in my dotage to make leaping, or should that be rolling, into the cold North Sea slightly more pleasurable.
3D Mesh Vest by Waterproof
Another item of thermal wear for dry-suit users but how does it compare to gear already on the market?
Big Blue AL1000XWP dual set up for Go-Pro
With the popularity of the go-pro set-up it was inevitable that 'specialist' set ups have been developed, but how well has this one been developed?
- Fins, tekkie or sport, standard or modded?
- Seabear H3 Dive Computer (Smart Watch)
- Halcyon 'H' Titanium Knife
- Lumb Brothers 'Crab Hook'
- Sea & Sea YS-01 Strobe
- Ikelite DS51 TTL Strobe
- To wax or not to wax?
- Miflex Hoses
- Hollis 38LX wing and solo technical harness
- Oceanic GT-3 regulator plus FDX-10 1st stage
- Oceanic EOS regulator plus FDX-10 1st stage
- Highland EMT Shears
- Northern Divers Weight and Trim Harness
- Beaver Tech Weight Harness
- 'J Nowill' SBS Titanium Dive Knife
- Halcyon Gaiter Wraps
- Halcyon Exploration Pocket
- Sovereign Diving (Seahouses)
- AP Diving Open Circuit Bailout Mouthpiece
- Waterfront Scuba Servicing Facility
- Waterproof G1 3mm 5 Finger Gloves
- Greenforce F2 Umbilical Torch
- Narked at 90 fourth cell conversion
- Hollis LED 3 Torch
- Atomic Aquatics SS1 Auto-air
- Beaver Aquasnips
- Jotron AQ 4 Strobe
- Shearwater Predator Dive Computer
- AP Diving Oxygen Sensor (R22D)
- Metalsub XRE1000 torch
- Eezycut Trilobite Cutter
- VR3 Dive Computer
- VRX Dive Computer
- Scubapro Seawing Nova
- The Dive Pod (Nuttys Dive Centre)
- Dive-rite Travel Pac
- Atomic Aquatics Frameless mask
- Seaskin suit repair and rock-boots
- Halcyon Pathfinder 400 Reel
- Re-visited Archon D33 torch
- AP Diving: Black Self Sealing SMB with DIN cylinder
- O three Ri 1-100CCN Dry-suit
- Archon D33 torch
- Bigblue Focusing-Spotting Light
- O three heated under vest
Latest Photographs


Eat my camera set-up!!
And again from the 'inside' or maybe underneath. Now make sure you have a buddy if going under any tin-work to drag you out should there be a snagging event.
More non-ferrous from Mistley and this time some golf balls for good measure!
Sea Hare (aplysia punctata) you get loads and loads of them on the south side of the point feeding and breeding!
A small Common Hermit Crab (Pagurus bernhardus) in a discarded winkle shell, the bottom of the site is crawling with these critters, searching for food, squabbling with their brethern over shells and generally going about their daily business!
Ribs on the port side near the bow of SS Thesis, you can see from the 'raw metal' that this area has not had a chance to be colonised by sea-life since the last lot of hull plate fell away. Sad but considering it's age not surprising.
A typical north east wreck dive, plates, boilers n bits. In this case probably Jan Van Ryswyck although a few vessels have foundered so the bits are somehwhat mixed!
The results of another successful dip on Mistley, more non-ferrous rubbish
Dead Mans Fingers (Alcyonium digitatum), a close up of the feeding 'polyps'?
A well known 'lair' and a well known Blue Fiend or Lobster (Homarus gammarus) I've had him out a couple of times and I guess he weighs in at about five pounds!
Not as common as in Southern waters or even around Howick but here is a Lesser Spotted Catshark, or should that be dogfish? (Scyliorhinus canicula) Years ago you rarely saw any but they are becoming more common, in 2018 a party of divers got photos of a large Tope out at the Farne Islands.....apex predators you have been warned!
These weeds 'reached for the surface' and with the small fish swimming about they were like trees and the fish like birds, pretty?
A Hermit Crab (Pagurus bernhardus) these are always good subjects and whilst they may 'nip' inside their shells when you approach it isn't long before the peep out again!
A Devonshire cup-coral (Caryophyllia smithii), there are loads of these multi-coloured critters on the wreckage
Inside the tunnel, you can see the permanent line at the ceiling and the relatively good vis, again there is no silt to stir up
Drop over to the 'hull side' of the vessel and it's still pretty messed around.
A typical north east wreck dive, plates, boilers n bits. In this case probably Jan Van Ryswyck although a few vessels have foundered so the bits are somehwhat mixed!