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Award-winning scuba diving tour operator, blue o two, have launched their Winter Sale! There are fantastic savings to be enjoyed across a wide range of liveaboard holidays including the Red Sea, Maldives, Palau, Philippines, Indonesia, Truk Lagoon, French Polynesia, Galapagos, The Bahamas, Thailand and The Solomon Islands & Papua New Guinea.

blue Friday is here! Save up to 25% on a wide range of liveaboard diving holidays with award-winning tour operator, blue o two. Their blue Friday sale period starts from 10am on Thursday 23rd November through to 6.30pm on Monday 27th November.

To celebrate the start of the Summer holidays, diving holiday specialists Regaldive are currently offering 10% Savings* in their Sizzling Summer Sale which runs from 20 July to 4 August 2017. With a great value 10% off diving holidays and liveaboards around the world, in addition to some superb dive pack deals and extra savings, Regaldive’s offers are available for a limited period only. The 10% saving applies to almost every holiday in the Regaldive programme.

I recently had a great time photographing the wrecks of Subic Bay on the west coast of Luzon, in the north of the Philippines. The bay used to be the location of a US naval base, and it has wrecks from the Spanish-American war, from WWII, and scuttled American ships and planes from the area afterwards. It’s quite a playground for the wreck-diving aficionado and underwater photographer.

To kick off the start of May, diving holiday specialists Regaldive are currently offering 10% Savings* in their Mega May Sale which runs from 4-19 May 2017. This saving applies to almost every holiday in the Regaldive programme. Divers can benefit from huge savings of up to £1,290 per person on liveaboard trips by booking their Regaldive holiday package during the Mega May Sale.

Rhinopias are a type of scorpionfish, known by many divers as the holy grail. They can only be encountered in certain areas in the Indian and Pacific oceans and dive sites get frequented by divers just because they are known to be there. Here are some fun facts about these amazing creatures, the best destinations for divers to find them and how divers can identify what they find.

One of the highlights of observing fish as a diver is to find a dragonet. Dragonets are small bony fishes which live between corals or in the sand and are found in tropical, sub-tropical and temperate oceans. There are 191 species of dragonet currently listed on Fishbase, including the well-known mandarin fish.

The phrase muck diving was coined by Bob Halstead when he described diving off black sand beaches in Papua New Guinea. This unusual type of diving has gained great popularity and involves diving sites with sandy or silty bottoms, in search of the critters found there. Some of the best sites for muck diving are volcanic areas and sea grass beds.

To celebrate the Birmingham Dive Show (DIVE 2016) taking place at the NEC, diving holiday specialist, Regaldive, has released a range of exciting new Dive Show Offers. Regaldive will be exhibiting at DIVE 2016 on Stand 330 on 22 & 23 October and the team will be on standby to help divers to plan their scuba diving adventures in more than 25 exciting worldwide destinations.