Home Trip Reports Club Nights Underwater Pics Gimp Non-Celebrity Diver Saturday 5 July 2008
Ed's Blog Archive Medical FAQs Guinea Pig Competitions Travel Offers The Crew Contact Us LDC
Order London Diver Magazine
The RMS Lusitania Win a RescuEAN

WIN! RESCUE!

The RescuEAN and the Jotron AQ-4 Distress Strobe are government listed as winnable items from London Diver.
Win a Jotron AQ-4 Distress Strobe London Diving Chamber

The Lusitania Chronicles

Leigh Bishop
Lusitania is a name synonymous in almost all wreck diving circles, often referred to by the technical community as the 'Mount Everest' of wreck dives...
Read more

WIN A CANVAS!


Send us
your underwater photos and win a printed canvas from Ocean Visions.
Underwater photography, feeding reef sharks

London Underwater Photographers


More pics
Ralf Tech
Mark Ellyatt



Twinsets , Trimix and the Evolution

Being a Girl Tekkie

Sophia Butler-Cowdry

Read more

Best Dive Worst Dive

Mark Ellyatt
Deeper diving has its risks and its rewards. I suppose when I recall my worst dive, I don't have to think for too long before remembering the episode when...
Read more

Haddock Soufflé

A Whole World of Pain

Here at London Diver Magazine, we strive to bring joy to those who demand answers. Along with Agony Aunt Paul Toomer; PADI Course Director, TDI Instructor Trainer, general dive guru and first person at the bar, we have THE Diving Dentist (and fellow Saffa) Celehte Fortuin answering your tooth-related quandaries.

Cooking the Catch: Haddock Soufflé

Andrew Maxwell

Every time I sit down to write the latest article for "cooking the catch", I gather together all the notes, newspaper clippings and snippets of information from the previous few months that I have kept...
Read more

Paul Toomer, Agony Aunt

Send us your queries, problems and interrogative rantings and we'll get one of them (which one exactly depends on how we feel) to soothe your querulous nature.

Celehte Fortuin, Diving Dentist
Blue O Two

A message from Ed

An overheard conversation of what was an interview at the coffee shop opposite the LDC chamber:

"So you've applied for the job as a van driver?"
"Yes"
Then ensued a 20 min brief of what the job entailed, ending in "...have you any endorsements on your licence?"
"What licence, I don't have one?"
"You mean to say you've applied for a van driver job and you can't drive?"
"Err, yes"
Both parties sat silently then parted company.

And they call fish stupid.

Personally I blame the BBC for this level of dumbing-down. Force feeding viewers on a diet of celebrity trash culture. All TV is crap I say. They can't even commission a nature programme without giving twee names to each of the animals.

No wonder my idea – "Ant Colony Diaries" never got past the pilot episode.

Oh well, perhaps "Beehive Brief" stands a better chance. But available now, is the cure for Dumb-down: Issue 4 of London Diver Magazine.

Rob wrestles with THE QUESTION of our times, no not God, the other one. Dr Jules tackles Women in Diving in a mature non-sexist way. And you give us trip reports, photos and our first male Gimp.

There's even a phone in competition where we get to keep all the charity cash. Now there's something the BBC does nicely.

And so: Upload your Club Night photos and the good photographs you've taken in the deep. Even take a step on your journalistic career and write up your last dive trip. Whatever sort of diver you are, from a violent sociopath like Tyson the triggerfish to a sexually-retarded instructor like Brad, enjoy this website and get hold of a copy of London Diver Magazine.

Sitemap »