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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.

• 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 ›

• “Carpe Profundum? Carpe Dentium!”

  By Strike on February 1, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Salvage diving has always been an aspect of diving that I’ve considered getting my teeth into. ———– A fly-speck on the map, Addu Atoll and the island of Gan are located just below the equator at the southernmost tip of… Read More ›

• “Ain’t nobody here but us chickens.”

  By Strike on January 24, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Strategically located at the tip of the Arabian Peninsula close to the eastern approaches to the Red Sea (and the Suez Canal’s sea-route connection between Europe and Asia) Aden was, in 1965, still a British protectorate; one that, two years… Read More ›

• Happy New Year Thoughts. (Or, In with the Old; Out with the New?)

  By Strike on December 31, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Have any of you noticed that tomatoes are becoming tasteless? It’s the same story with most vegetables, isn’t it? The size and texture are fine – the result of genetic engineering – but the flavour is sadly lacking. I have… Read More ›

• Getting the third degree

  By Strike on December 27, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  The problem with leaving my radio-alarm volume turned down to a gentle background drone is that while I’m slowly waking up to another day, I often confuse the tail end of dreams with news reports; a state of affairs that,… Read More ›