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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.

• “Somebody’s Got To Do It.”

  By Strike on August 10, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Seldom receiving the recognition they deserve, the following article about the New South Wales Police Diving Unit was first published in ‘Professional Diver Journal’ in early 1996, shortly after the Unit celebrated their Diamond Jubilee as one of the World’s… Read More ›

• Diving & The Media: A Survival Guide – 6

  By Strike on August 1, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Media Savvy Writing a Media Release: an abridged extract from the 1999 manual. __________________ Because of the impact that it has on all of our lives, there’s a tendency to forget that the media is nothing more than a very… Read More ›

• What a Guy

  By Strike on July 26, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  First published in 1934 and widely regarded as the first book to popularise recreational snorkelling and scuba diving, Guy Gilpatric’s, “The Compleat Goggler”, concludes with, “Man, we reflected, has polluted the rivers, destroyed the forests, pitted the fields with high… Read More ›

• Diving Knives

  By Strike on July 22, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Diving without some sort of cutting implement is like eating fish and chips without the salt and vinegar. You can do without. But why try? An equipment item that usually receives low priority both in its selection and its maintenance… Read More ›

• “Ve haf vays of making you tock.”

  By Strike on July 15, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  In 1960 a diving watch, engineered from a single block of steel and featuring a large, hemi-spherical, crystal lens, was attached to the external hull of the bathyscaphe ‘Trieste’. Crewed by Jacques Piccard and Lieutenant Don Walsh, of the U.S…. Read More ›

• ‘Hear’ today; gone tomorrow.

  By Strike on July 12, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  With so much emphasis placed on sleek equipment design and technology, it’s hardly surprising that divers tend to give greater priority to things like face masks and fins than they do to their more important biological bits and pieces. Take… Read More ›