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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.

• An Interview with Jarrod Jablonski

  By Strike on February 8, 2016 • ( 2 )

  

  Widely regarded as one of the world’s most capable and talented exploration divers – and a person only too willing to share his knowledge with others – Jarrod Jablonski continues to exercise a profound influence over the direction taken by… Read More ›

• Rule # 6: Always Look Good

  By Strike on November 30, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  Despite its outstanding pedigree, DIR (‘Doing It Right’) is a term that’s frequently misinterpreted by the diving community at large. A holistic approach to diving – one that puts equal emphasis on fitness, experience, attitude, teamwork, training and safety –… Read More ›

• Trapped

  By Strike on September 3, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  “It’s easy for a diver to be a coward and difficult to be brave because he usually works alone, unseen, uncriticised and unpraised … most of the foes are within himself and the victories unobserved.” On this day in 1972,… Read More ›

• Viewing the ‘Eclipse’

  By Strike on August 6, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Back in 1964, the ‘cold war’ – with its politically complex uncertainties – was in full swing; the sun was setting rapidly on what remained of the former British Empire’s outposts; Dr Timothy Leary preached the use of psychedelic drugs… Read More ›

• Fighting The Cold War

  By Strike on July 9, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Many divers are familiar with the abrupt temperature change that occurs at the thermocline, a natural boundary that’s often seen as a thin, shimmering layer marking the interface between warmer surface waters and the deeper and colder waters below. Because… Read More ›

• The Naval Uniform

  By Strike on June 16, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  “ Heart of oak are our ships, Jolly Tars are our men …” Since earliest times differences have always existed between members of the ‘Senior Service’ and their counterparts in other branches of the military: Not least in the adoption… Read More ›