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• Diving & The Media: A Survival Guide – 1

  By Strike on June 3, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  In late 1999 – in the wake of a spate of highly publicised diving fatalities – I completed a manual intended to help dive industry professionals deal more effectively with negative media publicity and criticism. Although presently in the throes… Read More ›

• Getting Wrecked In Australia – SS Yongala

  By Strike on June 1, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  The coastlines of Australia and its near Pacific neighbours are littered with ship-wrecks. Victims to the forces of nature, piracy and battle, many have collapsed into the surrounding sea floor, identifiable only through the symmetry of coral encrustations. Others remain… Read More ›

• ‘Uranus’ – The world’s first Nitrox snorkel

  By Strike on May 28, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  The following article was first published in Asian Diver Magazine in 1996 ____________________________ Claimed by its designers, an international consortium of diving technologists, to be the world’s first enriched air snorkel, ‘Uranus’  attracted considerable interest among those in the technical… Read More ›

• Weigh-2-Go: For the traveling diver

  By Strike on May 27, 2014 • ( 4 )

  

  For those divers who, when traveling, prefer the convenience of using their own equipment, Zymurgy Inc., have developed a range of portable weights that won’t put your airline baggage allowance over the top. The brain-child of Zymurgy Inc.’s Junior Design… Read More ›

• Think or thwim

  By Strike on May 20, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  An abstract concept that most divers claim to practice but one that they seldom think about in any depth, the phrase ‘diving safety’ is a classic example of an oxymoron. (For the benefit of those who believe that an oxymoron… Read More ›

• Underwater Navigation (2) – measuring current strength

  By Strike on May 16, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Having an understanding of the problems posed by the environment and a basic knowledge of natural aids to navigation is fundamental to every good dive plan. Measuring current strength From an anchored vessel, the diver drops a small low-profile marker… Read More ›

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