Recent Posts - page 12

  • “The Silent Enemy”

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    Lionel “Buster” Crabb achieved fame for his wartime exploits in Gibraltar as a member of the Royal Navy’s, ‘Underwater Working Party’ – a team of volunteer divers that could be speedily deployed to search ships hulls for explosive devices. (Named… Read More ›

  • A Breath-Taking Experience

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    The 1996 Tek.Asia Conference – supported by its own magazine, ‘tec asia’, distributed to subscribers of Asian Diver Magazine – re-introduced rebreathers to the Asian market. While interest in rebreathers and their capabilities was high, only three machines were realistically… Read More ›

  • The Fundamentals Of Better Diving

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    Hopefully everybody who dives has—at some point in their training—pored over the pages of a “How To” manual in an attempt to better understand the underlying physics and physiology governing their safe enjoyment of diving, and the techniques that, when… Read More ›

  • Stuff and Nonsense

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    Not many people realise that the idea of stuffing olives was hit upon by an obscure sect of Spanish nuns who, when there was a seasonal glut of the things, came up with the idea of removing the pit and… Read More ›

  • Where There’s Smoke there’s ‘Salvus’.

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    An early self-contained oxygen rebreather that, in the early part of the 20th century, was originally intended for land-based use in underground mines and other confined spaces containing poisonous atmospheres (including being used during WWI to protect machine gunners serving… Read More ›

  • Diving The ‘Titanic’

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    On the 1st September, 1985, an expedition organised by Robert Ballard finally discovered the wreck of the RMS Titanic (sunk in the North Atlantic on the 15th April 1912 after colliding with an iceberg) lying at a depth of about… Read More ›