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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
Tasked with updating the Standard Dress diving equipment then in use in the early part of the 20th Century, Robert. H. Davis – the Managing Director of legendary diving equipment company, Siebe, Gorman & Co. – designed a helmet attached… Read More ›
In diving’s pre-computer age, many occupational divers compiled their own work manuals filled with essential safety information like decompression and therapeutic recompression tables, basic treatment for pressure-related illnesses, and useful trivia … including, in some instances, job offer letters. My… Read More ›
The 31st May – as well as being the anniversary of the WWI Battle of Jutland – also marks the anniversary of the 1942 WWII attack on Sydney Harbour by three Japanese Midget Submarines. A little over 23-metres in length… Read More ›
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