Conil de la Frontera, commonly referred to as Conil in short, is a small coastal town in Southern Spain. I finally managed to convince the dive centre to take me diving in Conil after many months of chasing! Conditions are hard, strong currents, similar to what we get in Los Picos (Gibraltar), and a visibility of 4-5 metres! Their diving is mostly done in Tarifa, a short drive away, where conditions are much better. I’ve already dived in Tarifa many times before, what I was i

Just over 13 miles across the Straits of Gibraltar, is the Spanish city of Ceuta. Situated on the Northern most tip off the African Coast of Morocco, it’s a place I have always wanted to visit since I was a teenager. Fast Ferries run every couple hours from Algeciras, making it fairly easy to visit Ceuta. It is possible to leave early in the morning and come back after a day of diving in the evening, but I wanted to experience the culture, food and tourist sites of the city r

Sudan?! Why would you go to Sudan, what are you doing there? That’s what I got from most of my friends and family, when they heard I was there! Let’s get one thing straight, as I have experienced in the past with other destinations, you cannot trust everything you see online or from the media. I have experienced Sudan for myself and I can assure you I have never felt safer! The culture is very relaxed and the people will go to extreme measures to help you, without wanting not

Here I was again, in Egypt for my 5th time! This time on a “Project Shark” expedition to the more remote dive sites of Egypt. Our liveaboard included 24 of us from the Dive Charters Gibraltar dive club. We left early the next morning in the direction of Daedalus Reef. A few hours after leaving port, we stopped for our first check dive at a reef local to Hurghada. During lunch, we travelled further south to Panorama Reef, here we did our second dive of the day. After this dive

Down at the coast of Almeria, lies a large wreck called Arna, locally called “El Vapor”. She lies in an area called Cabo de Gata. The place is a 4 hour drive from Gibraltar. I made my way after work on Friday evening towards a town called Calahona, at the Costa Tropical in Spain. There I stayed the night before making a 1.5 hour trip to Cabo de Gata. We dived with Buceo Calahonda. They organised a boat and Tec Dive for us. The dive itself was amazing. Some of the best visibil

On the first week of June every year, the Gibraltar Sub Aqua Club (GSAC 888) arrange a club dive trip to Cabo de Palos in Spain. This time it was my 3rd time visiting the place! It’s always a long 5 and a half hours drive up from home but it’s definitely worth it, and anyways, I love driving long distances! Day 1 involved a 1 hour boat ride to “El Carbonero” wreck. We had tried diving this wreck last year in June, but the visibility was very poor, returning in September last

Aqaba is being advertised everywhere right now! So why not? I was on a tour of Jordan which had Aqaba as an extra add on option, which of course I decided to take. How could I miss this opportunity? I had heard about the famous “Tank” and Cedar Pride Wreck that Aqaba had to offer, so it’s exactly what I wanted to dive. I must say traveling through the Wadi Rum Desert the day before with some of my scuba gear and massive camera was interesting! Anyways, the tour had come to an

I realised it was the late summer bank holiday here in Gibraltar at the end of August and I still had some annual leave left. I’ve always wanted to visit Malta and the deep wrecks. Without little thinking, I booked everything online, and a few months later here I was! The flight was from Madrid in Spain. It was a 7 – 8 hour drive to get there from Gibraltar. But I love travelling and driving anywhere for hours. I stayed in Paceville in St. Julians, in close proximity to the

An unexpected, last minute decision to visit Cyprus! I took a few weeks of annual leave from work, got on my motorbike, and headed to France. On the second day into my motorbike trip I realised my tires needed replacing, so I headed back home. I arrived late on a Sunday night and decided to cancel my annual leave and go back to work on Monday morning. That afternoon, I decided I would keep the rest of the week’s annual leave and go off to Cyprus, to dive the famous Zenobia wr

Well my dive trip started the day before! I had to catch a plane from Gibraltar to London Gatwick to then get a connecting flight the following morning to Hurghada, Egypt! A bit of a challenge when you are travelling alone carrying 4 cases! It wasn’t my first time to Hurghada. I had visited just over a year ago whilst on my historical land tour of Egypt, and had managed to fit in a few dives on some of the reefs in Hurghada, but this was my first dive trip to Egypt, and also

It’s the commonwealth long weekend, and where to go best than the Ocean Revival Park in Portimao, Portugal. Just a 4.5 hours drive from home. I had previously dived here during my Tec diving training in Lagos, a town close by. But I wanted to go back and photograph the wrecks and marine life there. The Ocean Revival Park, is a demarcated area in between the towns of Portimao and Lagos, which holds 4 ex-naval vessel wrecks; consisting of a hydrographic vessel, patrol vessel, f