I've been a bit busy recently but I've just got round to editing some images I took during an excellent week diving the D-Day wrecks in Normandy in September. We were out for a week with Steve Johnson on his excellent boat Channel Diver http://www.channeldiving.com/

Photokina 2008

I'm currently speaking at Europe´s largest photographic fair Photokina in Cologne, along with Todd Essick, Eckhard Krumpholz, Andreas Shumacher and Wolfgang Polzer. Each of us is doing 3 presentations a day on different aspects of underwater photography.

Exhibition on the MV Norwegian Gem

Earlier this year the cruise liner MV Norwegian Gem was launched, and 9 of my images were used to decorate the forward stair hall. The sister ships were decorated by images from Ernst Haas's estate and wildlife photographer Steve Bloom, so I'm in some esteemed company there. I've just got some pics through from the art designers of how they looked just before completion. I'm pretty chuffed with these :o)

Papua New Guinea

I've recently returned from what was without doubt the best trip I've ever been on. I was diving Kimbe Bay from Walindi Plantation and then headed out to the Witu Islands and Fathers Reefs on board the Febrina. A fabulous crew, a wonderful country and the best diving I've ever done. Here are some pics from the trip....

The Sound of Mull

I'm currently trying to keep myself from overheating in a wetsuit in Papua New Guinea, but last week I was fighting the cold coming through my drysuit in Scotland. What a contrast! Here are a few images from that trip...
The Hispania




SS Breda

Shuna

Thesis

Rondo

The Salsette

I spent Saturday out with Dive Dorset, revisiting a wreck that I first dived in 1991. I always remembered the Salsette as being a particularly special dive, and it still is.

The Salsette was a P&O steam liner and once held numerous world records, including the Blue Riband for the fastest Atlantic crossing, until she yielded to the torpedoes of UB-40 in 1917. She now lies in 45-48 metres of water, 10 miles west of Portland Bill in Dorset, England.

Here are a few images from the dive.....

One of the prop shafts - sans-propeller

Winch

4.7 inch gun at the stern

Crane

Diving the Molina....

I spent Saturday diving in the English Channel off the Isle of Wight. We dived the "Molina", a steel steamer that was torpedoed in 1918 and now lies in 36 metres of water. Photographic conditions were challenging, as there was a lot of suspended matter in the water, but it was a really great dive. Dave Wendes of the Wight Spirit proved to be a very photographer-friendly skipper. Here are a few images from the trip......