Don Silcock

Australian Great White Shark Diving

Australian Great White Shark Diving – Our great brown land down-under, is known for many things… The beaches, the Red Centre, the Great Barrier Reef and the seemingly endless supply of dangerous creatures… However, few of those creatures …

Where to Dive in East Timor

Where to Dive in East Timor… On the 20th May 2002, a new country was born to the north of Australia. It was a very painful experience for its people, one they had fought long and hard for. Earning the respect of even those who had opposed …

Underwater Photography in PNG

Underwater photography in Papua New Guinea… PNG, as is it more commonly referred to, is located just south of the Equator and to the north of Australia. It is a large and diverse nation that is known principally for its unique tribal cultures, …

Tiger Beach Sharks – The Real Deal?

Tiger Beach Sharks…This shallow, sandy area in the Bahamas is firmly established as one of the global diving destinations. With that fame largely derived from the many published images of its most celebrated visitor – Galeocerdo cuvier, …

Diving the North Coast of Milne Bay

Diving the North Coast of Milne Bay… I am often asked why I like Papua New Guinea so much. And the honest answer is, as they say in the movies, it’s complicated! First of all, for me PNG is a wild and adventurous place. And as an Australian I …

Diving the Witu Islands

Diving the Witu Islands… As they say in the real estate business, location is everything. And it is Papua New Guinea’s physical position, astride the Equator, at the end of what was historically referred to as the Malay Archipelago. That puts …

Incredible Kimbe Bay

Incredible Kimbe Bay – in a country famous for the amazing diversity of its scuba diving. There are a few stand-out locations where, should you only visit PNG once in your life, you will just have to choose from… On that short-list would …

Best Aircraft Wrecks in PNG

The Best Aircraft Wreck Dives in PNG – World War II came to New Guinea in January 1942 when the Imperial Japanese Army invaded Rabaul in New Britain. Turning the region in to a major theater of war in the battle for the Pacific. There were many …

The Mitsubishi Zero Wreck

The Mitsubishi Zero Wreck – As the story is told around the bar at Walindi, the day the wreck of the Zero fighter was found was soon after a small plane had crashed on take-off from Kimbe Bay’s Hoskins Airport. So, when local villager …

Milne Bay – Where It All Began

Milne Bay – where it all began… Papua New Guinea enjoys a reputation for some of the best all-round scuba diving to be had anywhere. And truly, its combination of superb reefs, wonderful critter sites and WWII wrecks make it very …

ONEUW One160X Strobe Review

ONEUW One160X Strobe Review… This is a first impressions review of my personal experience with this new Italian strobe. As explained below, I bought the strobes myself through my diving buddy and fellow underwater photographer Filippo Borghi. …

D500 for Underwater Photography

Nikon D500 for Underwater Photography – A Mid-Term Review… How time flies – just over two years ago I wrote a first impressions review of my newly acquired Nikon D500. And in it I waxed lyrically about what the new “king of DX …