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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.

• Scuttling the ‘PERTH’

  By Strike on June 24, 2025

  

  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 ›

• TEK:ASIA 2026 Launch at ADEX2025

  By Strike on April 5, 2025

  

  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 ›

• Quality Vs Quantity

  By Strike on December 13, 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  Having spent a considerable portion of my life either organising, or helping to organise, dive-related events and activities, I was, until recently, rather proud to have had a hand in the development and growth of both the ADEX and the… Read More ›

• “Oggie! Oggie! Oggie! Oy! Oy! Oy!”

  By Strike on December 3, 2024

  

  Several years ago, I was asked why my then dog was called, “Oggie”? An ‘Oggie’ is another term for a Cornish pastie; a lunch-time meal for the Cornish tin-miners of old whose wives would, apparently, inform the miners that lunch… Read More ›

• Peter Fields – Diving Explorer

  By Strike on October 16, 2024

  

  Born and raised in Auckland, New Zealand, Peter Fields’ early ambitions to be a military aircraft pilot were thwarted when, after taking flying training with the Royal New Zealand Air Force, he was grounded for spurious reasons by an Army… Read More ›

• Terry Cummins – Dive Educator

  By Strike on October 2, 2024

  

  Some years ago, I interviewed, Terry Cummins – then still involved with PADI – on his thoughts about diving, and, more particularly, the diving industry.  Since then, he has added to his academic qualifications with a PhD. A person who… Read More ›