Why Go Underwater?

The Sea: the greatest amusement park of planet Earth

Have you ever imagined an alternate world, where you can fly between mountain peaks, do somersaults with strange creatures, without ever falling? A world full of dreamlike beings, where you feel weightless, but you don't need a spaceship to get there? Well, that world really exists, and it's much closer than a weird planet in a faraway universe; that world is the Sea: the greatest amusement park of planet Earth.

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the most famous wreck in the world

In The Silent World, by Louis Malle, Captain Albert Falco dives for the first time ever on a wreck sunk in the Red Sea during World War II, and the shot of the ship's bell with the name Thistlegorm becomes instantly legendary. Packed with motorcycles, trucks, sidecars, off-road vehicles, airplane parts, railway cars, rubber boots, and ammunition (an incredible number of boots and ammo), the cargo is an authentic time machine. I could never have imagined, when I watched the movie, that one day diving that wreck would become my daily bread...  >>>> read all on alertdiver.eu

Let's Dance...

Monica walks towards us across the terrace of the café restaurant, with a cheerful smile on her face, and dark sunglasses. A gazebo, tables and chairs, beach umbrellas on wooden planks. We follow her down a short flight of steps, sweeping past the boathouse of the club. Her dive center is ‘scattered,’ circling between sun and shade, rock, terraces, and painted wooden sheds. A small sitting room shaded by a canopy appears to be the classroom. On the vertical rock, a fishing net holds up the logo of the dive center: Blue Aura Diving Club. Down, towards the light, a small, sandy bay opens up; one of those places that either you know them, or you find them by chance on Google Earth, and right away you wonder how you’ll ever reach them. There are many of us, and little room to move: just a trail carved out of the rock.

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Cult Dive: Shark & Yolanda Reef

The new Alert Diver Magazine is online!

You will find, as usual, interesting articles on Dive Medicine and important information on 
Dive Safety. 
Alert Diver Magazine, authoritative, reliable, unbiased! 

in this issue:

PFO For Dummies,by Claudio Di Manao
DANGEROUS SPECIES