The joys of muck diving

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. Muck divers explore apparently unpromising sand flats and muddy silts devoid of visible inhabitants. Muck divers, though, see reef divers as the lightweights of the scuba world--people in search of the obvious. Muck diving is about searching for the unusual, the cryptic and the rare. Though enthus...