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I'll add some pictures taken from around the Stone Town area of Zanzibar - photo credits supplied where known! The Royal Navy Lighter shipwreck @ 30m The Royal Navy Lighter shipwreck @ 30m Boxfish. Photo by Aaron Gekoski Yawning Leaf-fish. Photo by Aaron Gekoski Mantis Shrimp. Photo by...

For diving in Zanzibar, the best and most accurate information I have come across (as someone who lives and works here) was written on the PADI blog by someone who has been here many years operating a dive centre in the north west of Zanzibar: A tropical island paradise, Zanzibar Archipelago...

For the diving in Pemba, get in touch with Raf at Swahili Divers (raf@kayakpemba.com) and tell him Richard directed you towards him. I am based on Unguja (the "main" island usually referred to as Zanzibar), and have dived with him before at his place - great diving up there! He might also have...

I've been working in Zanzibar (Unguja) for a couple of years now, and I was recently speaking to the owner of Swahili Divers in Pemba (the northern-most island of the Zanzibar archipelago). I think what he was saying to me is broadly spot on regarding diving in Tanzania, and I share it below for...

Ah, so they stopped hassling me around the same time I began to run out of money. *epiphany* :brokenheart:

:popcorn: This could get interesting... For what it's worth I've been hassled in most parts of Pattaya (fair skin, blue eyes... it seems to drive the Thai girls nuts - why doesn't this work elsewhere in the world?!). After a while it stopped, basically once they realised I wasn't a tourist. I...

Ok. Let's clear things up. I spoke to the CD last night after he had returned from Samaesan. The diver was found in the hole at 47m (max depth: 85m), NOT in the Hardeep (depth: 27m). They were planning on a second dive today on trimix to try and search deeper for the other missing diver...

Not in the Hardeep - the diver was found at 47m down the hole, minus mask and regulator spat out. There was still air in the tank (approx. 100 bar).