Vale John Whitehead

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Death seems intent on proving itself to me to be life’s last ‘Great Adventure’. On the weekend of October 4th & 5th 2025, yet another of my closest – and longest lasting – friends died.  John Whitehead was a man… Read More ›

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  • Dive ‘Talk’ 3 – Visual

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    A continuation of the two earlier pieces on underwater communications, “Dive ‘Talk’ 1 – Manual”, and, “Dive ‘Talk’ 2 – Accoustically Speaking.” Flags: Flown from a vessel tendering to divers, or from a tethered surface safety float – especially when… Read More ›

  • If – by Rudyard Kipling

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    I always tried …. “If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too: If… Read More ›

  • The Cell Door Saga

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    On Tuesday, 13th April, 1999, John Lippmann, the late, Bob Ramsay, Grahame Weir and myself settled down in the former Billiard Room at Raffles Hotel, Singapore, for a quiet little drink as a prelude to the start of the following… Read More ›

  • Vale Michael Menduno

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    On the 3rd October 2025, Michael Menduno – one of modern diving’s most enigmatic personalities – died following a stroke.  Despite a public persona as the person whose name will, forever, be synonymous with the advent of ‘Technical Diving’ (as… Read More ›

  • Selling Diving

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    Tarnished by an image that’s become associated with the high-pressure techniques of a used-car sales-person or the indifference of a poorly trained ‘phone-blower’, selling is often considered to be nothing more than a stop-gap vocation for people who happen to… Read More ›