CONCOURSE SUITE 1

10.30 - 11.30

Anne-Marie Kitchen-Wheeler

The Mantas Of The Maldives

This talk will include findings from observations and research of manta rays over the past five years by British competitive freediver, dive guide and manta expert Anne-Marie Kitchen-Wheeler.

11.45 - 12.45

Miranda Krestovnikoff

Puffins, Porpoises and Piddocks

Miranda spent this summer working on a new series of the hugely popular TV programme Coast which saw her diving with basking sharks off the Isle of Man and heading out from Cornwall in search of the blue sharks. Miranda will be revealing some of the stories behind this series, and bringing along new footage for the Dive 2006 audience to enjoy.

1.00 - 2.00

Monty Halls

Great Ocean Adventures

Though he usually seems to be circumnavigating the globe under water, Monty Halls always puts time aside for the two Dive Shows. The ex-Royal Marine is making no exception for Dive 2006, where he will be previewing the next round of his Great Ocean Adventures, on screen next spring.

2.15 - 3.15

Mike Rutzen

Shark Challenges

Having wowed audiences at previous shows with his tales of diving cageless with great whites off South Africa, Mike has been busy for the past year with many different species of shark. His project has been a 90-minute film for Animal Planet, showing him diving with whale sharks, Caribbean reefs and blacktips at the gentler end of the spectrum to tiger sharks and great whites.

3.30 - 4.30

Peter Scoones

Planet Earth

A humpback whale and her calf on an epic journey, head-butting pygmy seahorses, electric clams and dolphins feeding on squid are just a few scenes from in the second helping of the blockbuster TV documentary Planet Earth that starts in November. No one can match Peter Scoones when it comes to revealing the background story on how they are captured.

CONCOURSE SUITE 2

11.15 - 12.15

Jack Ingle

Force Z - HMS Repulse and HMS Prince of Wales

These two World War Two warships have become household names among divers lying at depths of 56m and 68m respectively in the South China Sea off Malaysia. Jack Ingle organises expeditions to these, and this year he gets away from kit configuration to talk about these impressive and controversial wrecks.

12.30 - 1.30

Innes McCartney

U-Boat Mystery

Deep-wreck diver and submarine expert Innes McCartney has had a busy time this year. Hitting the UK headlines recently after finding in the English Channel the only Nazi raider warship yet to be discovered, the HK Komet, he has also worked on a series of three hour-long TV specials called Deep Wreck Mysteries.

1.45 - 2.45

Rick Stanton

Wookey Hole

Britain's most audacious cave-diver seems able to penetrate where others don't even see an opening.  Now he is at Dive 2006 to report further on this amazing dive, but also bringing us up to date with his achievements in Italy, in the large resurgence cave Cogol de Veci, in the Dolomites.

3.00 - 4.00

Leigh Bishop &

Teresa Telus

British Wreck Diving

Fancy discovering your own wreck? Well-known for their deep-diving expeditions on shipwrecks such as the Lusitania, Britannic and the Egypt, Leigh Bishop and Teresa Telus also devote much of their time to British wreck diving. They have discovered dozens of virgin wrecks in home waters, and return to the Dive Show with a new presentation that reveals how they do it - and how you can too.