In the early ‘Seventies, the work-horse helicopter of choice for North Sea operations was the Westland Wessex – usually flown by former Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm pilots – with the pilot sitting higher than the cabin. Obliged to always… Read More ›
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The Mother Lodge – by Rudyard Kipling
The Mother Lodge by Rudyard Kipling There was Rundle, Station Master,An’ Beazely of the Rail, An’ Ackman, Commissariat, An’ Donkin o’ the Jail; An’ Blake, Conductor-Sergeant, Our Master twice was ‘e, An’ ‘im that kept the Europe-shop, Old Framjee Eduljee…. Read More ›
A Message From M2
From 1996 – when, following the collapse of his beloved, aquaCORP Magazine, Michael turned his back on the diving industry – until his eventual return at the OZTeK2011 event, Michael Menduno and I remained firm friends maintaining regular communications with… Read More ›
The Navy Comes to Town – HMS Invincible
A forgotten South Atlantic ‘outpost’ of the former British Empire, the Falkland Islands came to public gaze when, on 20th April, 1982, Argentina’s ruling Junta asserted their claim to the islands by seizing military control. Their actions elicited a military… Read More ›
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 ›
“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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