Journalist Reviews

Diveworldwide in the News

Here you will find links to articles and excerpts from various publications.

Oman Feature - March/April 2008 edition of Scottish Diver Magazine

HEADING OFF to warmer waters has become an October event over recent years and several trips to the Red Sea have proved to be very successful with good diving but increasingly crowded dive sites. This year I decided to look for some less travelled destinations and see if I could get somewhere a bit different.

There were lots of ideas thrown around but I ended up going for the Musandam Peninsula of Oman. Why, I do not really know, I knew it would be warm but beyond that very little. I hadn't read much about diving in Oman and knew virtually nothing about Musandam itself.

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Dive Worldwide and the Good Web Guide

"Dive Worldwide has a highly skilled team who have dived around the world; owned and managed dive centres; they have been guides and tour leaders. In other words, their diving experience is second to none. The team continually researches new dive destinations for year round holidays and most importantly Dive Worldwide is committed to offering a safe, enjoyable and educational experience."

Click here to read the full article at www.goodwebguide.co.uk

Maldives - Wanderlust Magazine - August/September 2007

Open water - By Lisa Holm. "Paradise if you're happy in a resort, purgatory if you want to explore - that's the usual view of the Maldives. But a liveaboard boat is your ticket to freedom - and it costs a lot less than you think"

Click here for the full report in Wanderlust online!

The Telegraph: 29th September

Borneo's Fragile Underwater World

Tim Ecott recently travelled to Sipidan in Borneo - Malaysia with Dive Worldwide. He spent 7 nights at the Sipdan Water Village, Mabul and benefitted from our specialist planning to get the permits to see this largely undiscovered underwater paradise.

To read the full article in the Telgraph Online, please click here.

For details of our tailored trips to Sipidan, please click here.

DIVER Magazine: August 2007

"So, where is the best place in the world to dive?"

As a regular contributor to DIVER magazine I'm often asked this question. The answer? Well, it all depends on what you're looking for. If your search is for a remote island in the Caribbean, with stunning pinnacles, plenty of marine life and bags of character, then you'll be looking for the island of Saba.

"Isn't that in Malaysia somewhere?"

No it isn't, that's Sabah - for reasons I cannot fathom, Saba still remains relatively unheard of. Bizarre as it offers some of the best dive sites in this region and one of my top five dive sites, 'The Pinnacle'. Rising at an angle from 60 metres to its peak at 30; this tower of coral and barrel sponges is only a few metres in diameter. As you spiral round the summit, take a look below, there's almost certainly going to be a shark patrolling the base.

Saba's signature dives are its pinnacles and seamounts - peaking at about 28 to 30 metres they always provide something of interest, shoals of jacks, collections of brightly coloured sponges, frogfish, sharks, turtles. And then there are the drop offs - stunning.

On dry land, the red roofs of the gingerbread style cottages and the people who occupy them take you back to the Caribbean of yesteryear. It's an overused cliche, but the people of this island really are the friendliest I have ever met (try standing on one of the roads for more than 5 minutes without being offered a lift). They also care passionately about their environment, the marine park is well run and where else would you find workers who built one of their roads around a tree, they just couldn't bear the idea of chopping it down.

And for the non-diver, or a diving day off, there is Mount Scenery. Like the underwater pinnacles around it, this island's peak is veiled in year round mist, its rainforest making for a challenging day of exploration.

So, back to the question, where is the best place in the world to dive? If it's the Caribbean you're thinking of, Saba, with its handful of quirky hotels, restaurants, rain forests, remote villages and of course, great diving, is your destination.

Brendan O'Brien

For further information on our trips to Saba, please click here

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