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Diving since 1961 – with a background in military, commercial, recreational and technical diving – David Strike has dived extensively throughout the Asia Pacific region, has authored several hundred articles about diving, is the recipient of the ADEX ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ for contributions to Technical Diving, a Fellow of the Explorers Club of New York, and the former owner and organiser of the biennial OZTeK Technical Diving Conference and a regular speaker and presenter at regional and international diving events. He is presently engaged in producing a series of diving-related books.

  • Reg Sprigg’s Chamber

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    A scientific ‘all-rounder’, South Australian, Reg Sprigg (b.1919 – d.1994) was a geologist and early environmentalist whose many credits include the discovery of the world’s oldest fossils in South Australia’s, Flinders Ranges and the first person in Australia to make… Read More ›

  • Inky and Pinky: Puppy Love

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    1965 was, ‘The Year of Living Dangerously’. Operating in and out of Singapore and the dockyard at Sembawang throughout 1965 – during ‘Konfrontasi’ with Indonesia – there were, before again falling into an on-going routine of ship’s bottom searches and… Read More ›

  • A Test Of Offshore Mettle

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    The following article was written for – and published in –  ‘Professional Diver Journal’ in 1996. ——————– Out in Australia’s Bass Strait oil fields the last diver of the day shift completes his surface decompression schedule and climbs from the… Read More ›

  • “Lest We Forget”

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    On the 25th August, 2000, in a ceremony as dignified as the deeds of those that it honoured, the Royal Australian Navy paid tribute to the Clearance Diving Branch with the dedication of a permanent memorial to those Clearance Divers,… Read More ›

  • Vale John Carrier

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    All stories, no matter how lengthy in the telling, have their ending.  But the very best remain stored away, together with life’s other precious memories, to be told time and time again … until time itself runs out.  As it… Read More ›

  • The ‘Polly-Gaff’ Gas Analyser

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    Technology has enjoyed considerable advances since the Polly-Gaff’ Gas Analyser was first announced – almost thirty years ago, in the May 1997 pages of Scuba Diver Magazine —————– The inherent problem with gas analysers is their frailty.  While primary diving… Read More ›