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• The Deep Scattering Layer

  By Strike on August 1, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  First noticed during the latter stages of the Second World War when hydro-graphic survey ships equipped with echo sounders showed a ‘phantom seabed’ appearing on the graphs, the Deep Scattering Layer (DSL) often appeared many hundreds of fathoms above that… Read More ›

• Face To Face: Up Close With Mother Nature – by Al Hornsby

  By Strike on June 27, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  I first met Al Hornsby in July 1993 when, as a key-note speaker at Sydney’s Scuba Expo event, he combined his poetry, music and photographic images into a memorable audio-visual presentation, ‘Indigo Dreams’; a production that highlighted the need for… Read More ›

• Scuba Fundamental: Start Diving the Right Way – By Simon Pridmore

  By Strike on June 21, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  The third volume in a trilogy that, collectively, spans the spectrum of diving proficiency, author and respected dive industry professional, Simon Pridmore’s latest offering, ‘Scuba Fundamental: Start Diving the Right Way’, goes back to basics with a book aimed at… Read More ›

• Ghosts Of The Deep: Diving the Shipwrecks of Sri Lanka – By Dharshana Jayawardena

  By Strike on June 14, 2016 • ( 2 )

  

  “Where there are ships, there will be wrecks.”  Rebuilding itself after the rigours of a lengthy civil war, the island nation of Sri Lanka is rapidly becoming recognised as an emerging tourism hot-spot and a major drawcard in the global… Read More ›

• A Chain Reaction

  By Strike on June 8, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  Putting the bite on sharks may not be good for our health.  There are distinct advantages in being at the top of the food chain.  Not least the fact that with so many choices between the lower end of the… Read More ›

• Sky Divers

  By Strike on March 28, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  Five kilometres off-shore from Long Reef, on Sydney’s northern beaches, a handful of wrecks scuttled in 50-plus metres attract large numbers of recreational divers.  For two technical divers attempting one of the deeper wrecks, a carefully planned dive turned to… Read More ›

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