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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.

• A talk with John Bennett – Deep Diver

  By Strike on June 23, 2014 • ( 3 )

  

    “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.” – Sir    Isaac Newton, 1676. The nature of technical diving is to push back the boundaries of knowledge, not through reckless bravado, but rather through… Read More ›

• “The ‘Beagle’ has stranded.”

  By Strike on June 19, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Without doubt one of the best-remembered events of the last century will be that moment, in July 1969, when Neil Armstrong announced to a waiting audience back on Earth, “The Eagle has landed”. Climbing down from the lunar landing module… Read More ›

• ‘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 ›