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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.

• ‘Titanic Too’ – a rebreather breakthrough

  By Strike on June 15, 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  Once again proving that the only barriers that exist in diving are the self-imposed limitations of logical thought, the Zymurgy Inc. R&D team have developed their own Semi-Closed Circuit Rebreather, the ‘Titanic Too’. Appreciating that unit cost has been a… Read More ›

• Diving & The Media: A Survival Guide – 4

  By Strike on June 13, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  THE SPOKESPERSON Continuing with extracts from the Crisis Management section of the Media Survival Guide – and following on from the previous segment suggesting ways of controlling the flow of information – following are further desirable attributes to consider when… Read More ›

• Missile Fins

  By Strike on June 9, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Power When You Need It Most Most divers have found themselves in a situation requiring unusual reserves of energy. It may be when swimming into a current; positioning an anchor; assisting a distressed diver, or during a long surface swim… Read More ›

• Diving & The Media: A Survival Guide – 3

  By Strike on June 8, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Part Three of the 1999 ‘Guide’ focused on ‘Crisis Management’. Abridged excerpts from that section follows: ……………… FACING THE MEDIA It needs to be stressed that there is no single correct way of dealing with the media or their representatives…. Read More ›

• Full Buoyancy Jacket – Diving in Vietnam

  By Strike on June 7, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  “I love the smell of neoprene in the morning. It smells like” … disaster? Surfacing from the first dive of the day we watched our boat slide across the South China Sea toward the distant horizon, the Vietnamese skipper blissfully… Read More ›

• Diving & The Media: A Survival Guide – 2

  By Strike on June 5, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  The ‘Guide’ – written in late 1999 – was in three parts plus appendices. Part One dealt with ‘Risk Management Considerations’; Part Two, dealt with ‘The Media’, while Part Three focussed on, ‘Crisis Management’. (The appendices included detailed information on:… Read More ›