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  • Imagination:  A Diver’s Worst Enemy?

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    A section of Sir Robert H Davis’ classic work, ‘Deep Diving and Submarine Operations’ is devoted to Divers’ Yarns. Highlighting the fact that an active imagination can often prove to be a diver’s worst enemy, one of the stories tells… Read More ›

  • Celebrating 30-years of Asian Diver Magazine

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    ‘Wow! I’m proud to be an Asian! … Finally, a “home-grown”, or should I say a, “home-based” magazine for the Asian Region.’, wrote one Maldivian diving professional when, in June, 1992, the first issue of Asian Diver Magazine rolled off… Read More ›

  • ‘Don’t Forget The Diver’

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    Veteran radio broadcaster, Alistair Cooke’s weekly, ‘Letter From America’, was listened to by audiences from around the world for more than fifty years, before his death on 30th March 2004, His last broadcast for 1996 focussed on the usual media… Read More ›

  • “To Hidden Depths”

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    In 1945, Captain Philippe Tailliez (later becoming a leading pioneer in self-contained diving exploration in cave and open ocean) was appointed Commander of the French Navy’s newly-formed, Undersea Research Group, whose members included Jacques Cousteau and Frederic Dumas. Earlier, in… Read More ›

  • Tekkies or Terrorists?

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    The following snippet, copied from an Australian newspaper, appeared in an online magazine – Nekton – that I produced and edited for several years in the early 2000’s. Today, given the widespread acceptance and use of CCR’s by recreational divers,… Read More ›

  • Counterstrike And Other Musings

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    Drawing on six decades spent in a variety of diving roles, my personal misadventures and occasional lapses in good judgement provided me with more than enough material for a regular magazine column; one that ran for many years in Asian… Read More ›