Meet the Team

Former Sunday Times executive, Graeme Gourlay, started Dive International magazine back in 1995. Dive International then gave way to DIVE, which became the official journal of the British Sub Aqua Club, the world's largest diving club. A keen and active diver, Graeme is also heavily committed to marine environmental issues.

DIVE's editor Jo Mattock is an avid UK diver and never misses an opportunity to get underwater. She's always looking for new dive sites – whether wrecks, reefs or fresh water – that are within reach her home in southwest London. Suggestions are welcome! Fond of the great outdoors, she enjoys long-distance hiking and canoeing. Anyone with news or feature ideas for DIVE is welcome to contact Jo via email at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or phone 020 8332 8402.

 

 

Kara Moses joins the DIVE team as online editor. Kara continues to work as a freelance writer, environmental journalist and editor as well, and recently finished a Master’s degree in Primatology – the study of primates. She lived in Madagascar for three months studying lemurs, which sounded exotic until she told us she spent all her time collecting their poo. Though she isn’t a qualified diver yet, Kara has made us jealous as she’s snorkelled at some of the best coral reefs in Southeast Asia. She likes getting out in nature, travelling, cycling and skydiving – it’s only a matter of time before we get her scuba diving too.

Design graduate Angela Finnegan is DIVE's art editor. She loves the water and is a keen swimmer. She has also completed a couple of introductory dives in the Red Sea and can't wait to get certified. 'It's [diving] like nothing I have ever done before,' she says. 'It's a totally different world.' A serious dancer since the age of three, Angela competed in tap and ballet championships around Surrey for more than 17 years.

 

 

Jess Hutchinson joins DIVE as a junior designer in ad production straight from university. Jess, who grew up in Warwickshire, studied graphic design at the University for the Creative Arts Farnham and is an all-round creative type. She likes to knit and sew and she’s even been known to make her own clothes. She doesn’t dive, but does enjoy travelling – Australia tops the list of places she’d like to visit.

DIVE's finance manager, Ryan Wantling is not your typical accountant. South African born Ryan craves adventure - as well as diving he has turned his hand to such activities as ice climbing, off-road biking, cycling and driving, cross country running and building his own Harley Davidson and Land Rovers from scratch. He's kit-obsessed and always has the latest gadgets, which all of us in the DIVE office tend to drool over. Ryan also has a canny knack of making all his dive buddies laugh out loud underwater.

 

 

 

 

World Editor Douglas Seifert is based in Palm Beach, Florida, but doesn't spend much time there. Author of DIVE's Water Column feature, he is a globe-trotting photojournalist whose award-winning work is renowned in the diving industry (as is his bright yellow wetsuit, which he believes attracts sharks). So what of the man himself? Well, he has a penchant for fine wines and first editions, mixes a mean martini and loves to cook for friends. This bon viveur can also be very gregarious: someone once decribed him as being 'like Bill Murray in the final scenes of Groundhog Day, when everything is going his way'. Being an underwater photographer, there are naturally many days that do not go his way, but he balances the odds by living to the maxim 'you've got to be in it to win it'. We reckon he spends as much time in the water as your average harbour seal.