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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.
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Paradise in P.N.G.
The article that follows relates to a dive trip to Papua New Guinea in early 1996. —————— Papua New Guinea. Land of Adventure and Excitement. It’s everything that the travel brochures claim for it. And then some! Ragged mountain ranges… Read More ›
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Leaving Laos – 1989
I have enormously fond memories of the time that I spent in what was then a quiet and forgotten backwater of Indo-China; a small Asian country that had had more bombs dropped on it during the course of the Vietnam… Read More ›
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“Some Like It Hot” – The ‘Simplex Mk 1′ S.W.D.
Never believe folks who tell you that there’s no future in nostalgia; there’s much to be learned from a study of the past. And diving is no exception. Riding a growing global wave of interest in diving’s rich and sometimes… Read More ›
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“… and this year’s FUBAR Diving Award goes to …. “ – Part One
It’s a simple fact of life that, buried deep within the psyche of some – but much closer to the surface in others – is the desire to be recognised as a person whose life and accomplishments have made a… Read More ›
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Scuttling the ‘PERTH’
At a few minutes past 08.00 on Saturday, 24th November 2001, the former Guided Missile Destroyer, HMAS PERTH, briefly lifted its bow to the sky before succumbing to the ocean waters invading its hull. Quickly settling upright on the seabed… Read More ›
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TEK:ASIA 2026 Launch at ADEX2025
For those who don’t know me, my name is David Strike and I’m sorry to not be there with you at ADEX2025, an event that has now firmly established itself as one of the world’s great dive shows. My own… Read More ›
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