Diver Magazines, 1985

Diver Magazines, 1985

Official Diver magazine folder with 12 copies of Diver Magazine, January to December 1985 inclusive.

January: Famous faces, Wrecks (part 1), Kitting up, Halley’s innovations, Dressed for diving, Mystery of Monte Cristo, A taste of the seas, Learning to dive, the L-plate diver, Leni Reiffenstahl’s reef, The Atocha’s golden hoard, Diving with a purpose.

February: Boat Show success, BSAC election candidates, Training scheme milestones, Six trips for ’86, Whisky Galore, Norway’s Arctic underworld, Shaping up as DOC ’85, Safer novices, Ailing and out of luck.

March: BSAC at the Boat Show, Costa Brava comeback, The £3m porcelain haul, Diving incidents in 1985, Day trip to disaster, Prize performer, The Isle of Wight, One for the pot, Which RIB?, Diving stamps of the world, The Torrey Canyon.

April: The threat to wreck diving, Atlantic adventure, The way ahead, 212 hours in the swim, Keeping tabs on sea urchins, Bay of history, Beating the gear thieves, Outward bound, Six of the best, Trip to the sun, On to the ricks.

May: Packed pools at Crystal Palace, Oxygen to the rescue, New schools’ certificate, Watching your weight, Northern night moves, Twelve gripping wreck stories, How I turned pro, The lady and the python, Destination Tenerife, Crest of the wave, A new age of steam.

June: Wrecks Bill amended, The pioneering Braithwaties (pr 1), Pressure points, Two splash-zone compacts, Water music, Converting your grades, Journey without maps, South Sea sensations, Scap a fleet’s final hours, In search of sea lions, Flogged through the fleet.

July: Nautical nuptials, My hard hat dive in Chile, Braithwaites and bullets, Watch that prop, Off course after a long haul, BSoUP’s big day, Crazy for Kenya, Research in the sun, The luck of the draw.

August: Wreck protection and you, Photograph – used or abused, Making the grade in 14 days, Life after training, Never dive with chipped nail varnish, Eastern outpost, The incredible Nordhuk, Two high fliers, Yorkshire’s U-boat killing fields.

September: The new wrecks act, Dive relics afloat, High dive, Wrec diver’s dream beyond reach, Tunnel vision, Priates off Brunei, How to win at photos games, Tobago – Crusoe’s island, Gildenburgh – family favourite, Wreck hunt electronics, Bretagne – third time lucky.

October: Incidents at Scapa Flow, Stab jacket survey, Going for gold, Island of surprises, High noon at Kimmeridge, Tomb of the Bounty mutineers, Brittany’s sunken graves, Deep-freeze dive, A short trip to oblivion.

November: Playing with fire, Stowing your snorkel, Bends alert, Caught i the shallows, Blasted burned and beached, Filming at 40m, Open night at Harrow, Circle games, A splash of colour, Trinkets for the Christmas tree, Garden of Eden, The diving life of Ley Kenyon, In the grip of the gun boats.

December: Diving incidents – BSAC gets tough, The missing fish mystery, Buddy can you spare a sign?, Claws! – Eilat’s monster lobster, Into the unknown, The finest wreck in the world, Windive ’86, Beast man or boffin brain?, Ley Kenyon – royalty and rapture, U-boat prey.