MUCK DIVING sounds the very antithesis of coral-reef diving. Reef divers swim through a world of colourful coral heads populated by strikingly patterned fish, scuttling arthropods and awesome molluscs ...

But the muck is perhaps more full of life than anything else you will ever swim in. Muck diving is a specialized endeavor, one not for the faint of heart, usually conducted in the exceptionally rich ...

For most people, a walk in the countryside is an occasion for seeing the sights, meaning wide-open vistas, birds in the trees, and squirrels or rabbits dashing away at your approach. But there is ...