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 | MONTY: Trout, trotters and twin-sets
Our hero ruminates on the good, the bad and the ugly - 9/7/10 |
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 | MONTY: Reports on his experiences at Dive Fest
DIVE’s Royal Marine turned marine biologist/crofter/celebrity dog owner reports on his experiences at Dive Fest - 18/9/09 |
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 | Monty: Rusty rebreather techniques
Mr Halls muses on his rusty rebreather techniques and wonders if we could all be better prepared for when things get hairy underwater - 6/9/09 |
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| MONTY: Revisiting his neglected rebreather
Our hero revisits his neglected rebreather and contemplates the alpha-male desire for big, shiny, new, cool stuff - 23/6/09 |
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| MONTY: Oceanic whitetips
A week’s liveaboard trip leads a dancing Monty to ruminate on the fate of oceanic whitetip sharks
- 15/5/09 |
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| MONTY: Recordbreaking ironing
Our hero joins forces with Yorkshire grit to regain the ‘Ashes’ in a world-record-beating ironing event - 14/5/09 |
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| MONTY: Airline rant
An absence of customer service leaves our hero with
a touch a of plane rage and a ‘troublemaker’ tag - 16/3/09 |
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| MONTY: The dolphing-saving marathon
A new year brings new challenges for Monty as he prepares for a dolphin-saving marathon - 5/3/09 |
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| MONTY: Christmas thoughts
A christmas package for a soldier in Afghanistan reminds our man that there are British people, who put everything on the line. - 3/3/09 |
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| Monty: Comtemplating the winter ahead
In which your intrepid columnist contemplates the winter ahead, makes a controversial admission and vows to spend more money on scuba kit - 29/1/09 |
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| Monty!
Our man returns south after his sojourn in western Scotland
and reflects on a glorious six months - 14/1/09 |
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| MONTY: Wonders of the ocean
We are finally in the full flush of summer here in northwest Scotland; most days are pretty damn good. - 7/11/08 |
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| MONTY: Seal Encounters
The chance of a seal encounter leads DIVE’s adventurer to unpack his books for a spot of research - 8/10/08 |
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| MONTY: Marine Reserves
Our Hebrides correspondent muses on the merits of sledgehammers, four-inch nails and marine reserves - 4/9/08 |
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 | MONTY: Ruminating on shark feeding
I sit in a rather sumptuous hotel in Inverness as I type this, burping gassily having just fallen upon a gigantic club sandwich like a ravenous predator. - 30/7/08 |
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| Monty goes native in the Scottish Highlands
I am, at least for the next six months, Monty of the North. Through some judicious pitching of ideas for a new television series, I find myself perched at the very northwestern edge of the British mainland, directly opposite the Isle of Skye. - 30/6/08 |
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| MONTY: It's not the agency it's the diver
It’s fun writing this column; a chance to vent my spleen on various issues – a process that normally requires several pints and a captive (and often sedated) audience. - 30/6/08 |
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| MONTY: Has his career literally become a 'waste'
Glamour, glamour, glamour. Anyone thinking that the life of a TV presenter is a relentless series of huge motor homes, fawning acolytes and soya-milk-skinny-macchiatos should have been with me over the last couple of weeks. - 2/6/08 |
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| MONTY: Reconsidering the legacy of Cousteau
This month’s column sees our hero in Sudan, baiting Aussies and reconsidering the legacy of Cousteau - 9/5/08 |
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 | Three lakes, two nutters and a soaking
Monty Halls and fellow masochist Andy Torbet kept in trim by devising an outrageous challenge for charity – diving the highest-altitude lakes in England,
Scotland and Wales in 24 hours - 8/5/08 |
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| MONTY: Diving's attitude to reverse profiles
It’s the start of the Full Circle Legends expedition, and we’re all at Gansbaai in South Africa’s verdant Western Cape. - 3/3/08 |
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| MONTY: In awe by the exploits of commercial divers
This month’s column sees our resident ocean adventurer left in awe
by the exploits of commercial divers - 31/12/07 |
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| MONTY: Are divers the result of natural selection?
Are divers the final triumphant result of natural selection? DIVE’s resident superhuman certainly thinks so, and visits the Isle of Wight
to prove it - 29/11/07 |
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| MONTY: This summer's great white lies
Big fish fanatic and Great Ocean Adventures star Monty Halls is hot under the collar after this summer’s great white lies - 7/11/07 |
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 | MONTY: facing the prospect of advancing years
Great Ocean Adventures star Monty Halls faces the prospect of advancing years and seeks solace in the acquisition of more diving equipment
- 13/9/07 |
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| MONTY: Reflects on how lucky British divers are
‘You simply must go to the Scillies. You absolutely have to visit the Channel Islands. Don’t you dare go to your grave without having dived the West Coast of Scotland’ - 21/8/07 |
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| MONTY: Joins the annual club stampede to Devon
‘While we may style ourselves as shanty-singing, cob-pipe-smoking, Fair-Isle-sweater-wearing folk of the sea, actually we’re not’ - 16/7/07 |
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