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• “Some Like It Hot” – The ‘Simplex Mk 1′ S.W.D.

  By Strike on August 14, 2025

  

  Never believe folks who tell you that there’s no future in nostalgia; there’s much to be learned from a study of the past. And diving is no exception.  Riding a growing global wave of interest in diving’s rich and sometimes… Read More ›

• “… and this year’s FUBAR Diving Award goes to …. “ – Part One

  By Strike on July 12, 2025

  

  It’s a simple fact of life that, buried deep within the psyche of some – but much closer to the surface in others – is the desire to be recognised as a person whose life and accomplishments have made a… Read More ›

• Scuttling the ‘PERTH’

  By Strike on June 24, 2025

  

  At a few minutes past 08.00 on Saturday, 24th November 2001, the former Guided Missile Destroyer, HMAS PERTH, briefly lifted its bow to the sky before succumbing to the ocean waters invading its hull.  Quickly settling upright on the seabed… Read More ›

• TEK:ASIA 2026 Launch at ADEX2025

  By Strike on April 5, 2025

  

  For those who don’t know me, my name is David Strike and I’m sorry to not be there with you at ADEX2025, an event that has now firmly established itself as one of the world’s great dive shows. My own… Read More ›

• Quality Vs Quantity

  By Strike on December 13, 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  Having spent a considerable portion of my life either organising, or helping to organise, dive-related events and activities, I was, until recently, rather proud to have had a hand in the development and growth of both the ADEX and the… Read More ›

• “Oggie! Oggie! Oggie! Oy! Oy! Oy!”

  By Strike on December 3, 2024

  

  Several years ago, I was asked why my then dog was called, “Oggie”? An ‘Oggie’ is another term for a Cornish pastie; a lunch-time meal for the Cornish tin-miners of old whose wives would, apparently, inform the miners that lunch… Read More ›

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