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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.

• Diving & The Media 10 – Managing Post-Incident Stress

  By Strike on August 25, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  The following is an additional extract – an appendix – taken from the manual, ‘Diving & The Media: A Survival Guide’, that I completed in 1999 and whose purpose was to help dive industry professionals deal more effectively with negative… Read More ›

• “For Safety’s Sake …Oh!”

  By Strike on August 23, 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  Back in the not-too-distant past, a good dive watch was much more than just a functional piece of bling.  It was also a status symbol that marked the wearer as a serious – and experienced? – diver. On occasions, it… Read More ›

• The Deep Scattering Layer

  By Strike on August 1, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  First noticed during the latter stages of the Second World War when hydro-graphic survey ships equipped with echo sounders showed a ‘phantom seabed’ appearing on the graphs, the Deep Scattering Layer (DSL) often appeared many hundreds of fathoms above that… Read More ›

• Face To Face: Up Close With Mother Nature – by Al Hornsby

  By Strike on June 27, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  I first met Al Hornsby in July 1993 when, as a key-note speaker at Sydney’s Scuba Expo event, he combined his poetry, music and photographic images into a memorable audio-visual presentation, ‘Indigo Dreams’; a production that highlighted the need for… Read More ›

• Scuba Fundamental: Start Diving the Right Way – By Simon Pridmore

  By Strike on June 21, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  The third volume in a trilogy that, collectively, spans the spectrum of diving proficiency, author and respected dive industry professional, Simon Pridmore’s latest offering, ‘Scuba Fundamental: Start Diving the Right Way’, goes back to basics with a book aimed at… Read More ›

• Ghosts Of The Deep: Diving the Shipwrecks of Sri Lanka – By Dharshana Jayawardena

  By Strike on June 14, 2016 • ( 2 )

  

  “Where there are ships, there will be wrecks.”  Rebuilding itself after the rigours of a lengthy civil war, the island nation of Sri Lanka is rapidly becoming recognised as an emerging tourism hot-spot and a major drawcard in the global… Read More ›