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  • Vale Michael Menduno

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    On the 3rd October 2025, Michael Menduno – one of modern diving’s most enigmatic personalities – died following a stroke.  Despite a public persona as the person whose name will, forever, be synonymous with the advent of ‘Technical Diving’ (as… Read More ›

  • Selling Diving

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    Tarnished by an image that’s become associated with the high-pressure techniques of a used-car sales-person or the indifference of a poorly trained ‘phone-blower’, selling is often considered to be nothing more than a stop-gap vocation for people who happen to… Read More ›

  • The North Sea Bus

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    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 ›

  • The Mother Lodge – by Rudyard Kipling

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    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

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    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

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    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 ›