Recent Posts - page 23

  • Trapped

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    “It’s easy for a diver to be a coward and difficult to be brave because he usually works alone, unseen, uncriticised and unpraised … most of the foes are within himself and the victories unobserved.” On this day in 1972,… Read More ›

  • Viewing the ‘Eclipse’

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    Back in 1964, the ‘cold war’ – with its politically complex uncertainties – was in full swing; the sun was setting rapidly on what remained of the former British Empire’s outposts; Dr Timothy Leary preached the use of psychedelic drugs… Read More ›

  • Fighting The Cold War

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    Many divers are familiar with the abrupt temperature change that occurs at the thermocline, a natural boundary that’s often seen as a thin, shimmering layer marking the interface between warmer surface waters and the deeper and colder waters below. Because… Read More ›

  • The Naval Uniform

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    “ Heart of oak are our ships, Jolly Tars are our men …” Since earliest times differences have always existed between members of the ‘Senior Service’ and their counterparts in other branches of the military: Not least in the adoption… Read More ›

  • “Carpe Profundum? Carpe Dentium!”

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    Salvage diving has always been an aspect of diving that I’ve considered getting my teeth into. ———– A fly-speck on the map, Addu Atoll and the island of Gan are located just below the equator at the southernmost tip of… Read More ›

  • “Ain’t nobody here but us chickens.”

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    Strategically located at the tip of the Arabian Peninsula close to the eastern approaches to the Red Sea (and the Suez Canal’s sea-route connection between Europe and Asia) Aden was, in 1965, still a British protectorate; one that, two years… Read More ›