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BBC South West Inside Out - Lizard Archaelogy
By Mark Milburn on 4 October 2008 - comments
The full article of the first excursion can be found on Travel-Dive Lizard Archaeology
Hairball Too, Lembeh Strait, North Sulawesi, Indonesia
By John Boyle on 9 August 2008 - comments
Every time I dive this place – and I must have done well over fifty dives on this spot alone – I think of a worm tank I used to have when I was a kid; a glass tank which at the surface was just flat earth, but in cross section showed the worms and their incredible tunnels and tracks. I always wish I could see the substrate of Hairball Too in cross section to watch the incredible array of creatures that live in the semi liquid fine black volcanic sand that makes up the sea floor in the strait.
Astove wall, Astove Island, Seychelles Archipelago, Southern Indian Ocean
By John Boyle on 22 February 2006 - comments [3]
Though the main holiday islands of Seychelles and grouped together an easy hop from each other, this nation’s territory actually covers over a million and a quarter square miles of ocean, stretching almost to Madagascar in the south. Lost in this massive tract of sea are a handful of tiny coral islands, in the main uninhabited, and one of the most southerly of these is Astove.
While some people will have heard of legendary Aldabra, the world’s largest raised coral atoll with its population of over 150,000 giant tortoise, now a world heritage site, very few will know the name of its neighbour Astove – and even fewer will have visited this lonely spot.
My 3 favourite dive sites on the planet
By John Boyle on 14 February 2006 - comments [1]
It’s a question I get asked so many times – what is the best place to dive? There is no best place; a dive spot is as good as the pleasure that you get from diving there, be it Stoney Cove or the most exotic tropical location.
However there are three places on the planet’s oceans that I could never tire of diving – give me gills and I would be happy never to surface. And for a photographer or film maker these sites offer unlimited opportunities for world class images.
Travel Dive will be publishing Johns favourite dive locations over the next week so you can experience his favourite places underwater.
John Boyle Underwater Film maker Interview
By Travel Dive on 20 December 2005 - comments
If you decide to have a venture into the wonderful art of underwater film making it won’t be long before you come across the names of John Boyle and his partner at SharkBayFilms Fionn Crow Howieson. Winner’s of every award imaginable for underwater film making they have dived just about any place worth going to. I warmed to these guys immediately from reading their book “A step by step Guide to Underwater Video”. It really underlined to me what underwater filming was all about. There are very few part-time UW film maker divers, you need to be fully committed to it even as a diving pastime. Divers either film or they don’t, simple as that. John and Fionn continue to be at the fore front of independent underwater film making in the UK and are as sound as they come.
Introduction by: alan@travel-dive.com
Inland Sea Gozo
By Alan Edwards on 1 July 2005 - comments
The Inland Sea is a beautiful dive, and sits on my personal list of top dives in the world. I rate it far beyond the other dives in Gozo and it’s the top of my list to dive when I go there. It sit’s within a complex of other well known Gozo dives, the Blue Hole (Azure Window).
