I've been so fortunate, even learning to dive as late as I did, I was able to log over two hundred dives in all sorts of places, across the world. It has been one of life's truly great experiences.

Looking back, I've really not been able to find a strong preference for one site over the others except for the Great Barrier Reef. Yes, that was my primo! I even found a big saw, from a sawfish, very firmly embedded under a coral reef ... the story of that primeval struggle would be interesting to know.

Then, there were the magnificent big clams of Ponapei with their sinuous, and, gorgeously clad with colour, mantles. They are in my vision now. I didn't do photographs, whilst a diver, but have been fortunate enough to be allowed to use others' to share with you.

Those ridiculously beautiful, plump blue starfish of Fiji come to mind along with their black searching clams, and the coral embedded ones. Truk was beyond my capabilities, but, perhaps, who knows?

Cozumel was always fun and who can forget that extraordinary Thanksgiving Day? There we sat at the high bench tables, having lunch between dives, and, out from the scrubby bushes, stalks a scrawny tom turkey, with two hens. They gobbled at us. It was practically surreal and added the oddest fillip to our day. The variety of dives there is great .. from the gentlest to the perilous.

B