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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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USS Lagarto – On Eternal Patrol
In 2005, Thai diving veteran, the late, Jamie Macleod (owner and Instructor Trainer of a leading technical diving facility on the island of Koh Tao, in the Gulf of Thailand) together with Stewart Oehl, located one of the US Navy’s… Read More ›
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Rules to Live By
I wrote the following to our daughter on the occasion of her 21st Birthday …. ————— The years have gone by so quickly since you were born, and in that time, I have been remiss in advising, counselling and guiding… Read More ›
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Softly Tread The Brave
A member of Melbourne’s ‘establishment’ and an executive in the family-owned newspaper, ‘The Melbourne Age’, Hugh Randall Syme was a highly decorated Royal Australian Naval Reserve officer who, during the Second World War, volunteered for hazardous duty in the ‘Rendering… Read More ›
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For Whom The Bell Tolls
In 1799, HMS Lutine, a British frigate carrying 1,000 bars of gold and 500 bars of silver insured for £900,000 ( at least £80 million at today’s value) sank in a storm in just 40 feet of water within sight… Read More ›
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A Simple Swap
Harry Wardle – later becoming the Royal Navy’s Deputy Superintendent of Diving, but, in 1947, the Officer in Charge of the Royal Navy Diving School – recalls his meeting with Cousteau and the R.N.’s first – brief – flirtation with… Read More ›
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