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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.

• Diving & The Media: A Survival Guide – 1

  By Strike on June 3, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  In late 1999 – in the wake of a spate of highly publicised diving fatalities – I completed a manual intended to help dive industry professionals deal more effectively with negative media publicity and criticism. Although presently in the throes… Read More ›

• Getting Wrecked In Australia – SS Yongala

  By Strike on June 1, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  The coastlines of Australia and its near Pacific neighbours are littered with ship-wrecks. Victims to the forces of nature, piracy and battle, many have collapsed into the surrounding sea floor, identifiable only through the symmetry of coral encrustations. Others remain… Read More ›

• ‘Uranus’ – The world’s first Nitrox snorkel

  By Strike on May 28, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  The following article was first published in Asian Diver Magazine in 1996 ____________________________ Claimed by its designers, an international consortium of diving technologists, to be the world’s first enriched air snorkel, ‘Uranus’  attracted considerable interest among those in the technical… Read More ›

• Weigh-2-Go: For the traveling diver

  By Strike on May 27, 2014 • ( 4 )

  

  For those divers who, when traveling, prefer the convenience of using their own equipment, Zymurgy Inc., have developed a range of portable weights that won’t put your airline baggage allowance over the top. The brain-child of Zymurgy Inc.’s Junior Design… Read More ›

• Think or thwim

  By Strike on May 20, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  An abstract concept that most divers claim to practice but one that they seldom think about in any depth, the phrase ‘diving safety’ is a classic example of an oxymoron. (For the benefit of those who believe that an oxymoron… Read More ›

• Underwater Navigation (2) – measuring current strength

  By Strike on May 16, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Having an understanding of the problems posed by the environment and a basic knowledge of natural aids to navigation is fundamental to every good dive plan. Measuring current strength From an anchored vessel, the diver drops a small low-profile marker… Read More ›