Fall appears to be the season for surveys and lists that mention diving:

Sportingo, a popular sporting website recently listed the 10 most dangerous sports based on accident reports.  Sports making the list include: Cave Diving, Rugby and Cheerleading!

The London Times listed the ten best dive sites in the UK.  The number one destination?  The World War One shipwrecks of Scotland’s Scapa Flow.  Cheapflights.co.uk has named Egypt’s Sharm El Sheikh. The other sites listed include the Great Barrier Reef, Cuba, Maldives, Belize, Turks and Caicos, Maui in Hawaii, Malaysian Borneo, and St Croix in the US Virgin Islands.

Divers have a new toy for 2008.

Has Diver Magazine Hatched a Trend?
Swimming our way back to November 2007, Diver Magazine featured Malena Sharkey on the cover wearing nothing but her mermaid costume.  The Florida-based diver has a unique moonlighting career as a mermaid model. The issue turned out to be extremely popular. Check out the latest Compari calendar and you will see that Diver has jumped onto the mermaid popularity wave long before it is even close to cresting.

Equipment manufacturers have been busy all winter preparing for the new dive season.  New female-friendly BCs, go-fast swim suits and new comfortable mask straps have already started turning up in dive shops across the continent.



American Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps,
holder of six World records, models the new
Speedo LZR Racer swimsuit.