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  • The men from Snowy River

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    Australia’s most ambitious civil engineering project teetered on the brink of disaster when, in 1961, sluice gates governing the flow of water from Lake Eucumbene – a key element in the Snowy Mountains hydro-electric scheme to divert the course of… Read More ›

  • “The wongs of a dive …”

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    Everyone who’s been privileged to hear me sing – usually after I’ve had several pints of Old Cobblers in the front bar of The Sozzled Cod – claims disbelief when I tell them that, as a young sprog, I was… Read More ›

  • The things we do for love

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    According to a recent statistical survey, forty percent of the world’s adult population are, at any one time, actively engaged in the search for a suitable partner while another forty percent are anxiously trying to remove themselves from a relationship… Read More ›

  • Bill Fitzgerald – Navy diver

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    The following interview was first published in Scuba Diver Magazine in December 1998. —————– A member of the original group selected, in 1955, for the Royal Australian Navy’s first Clearance Diver Course, Bill Fitzgerald’s life has encompassed all aspects of… Read More ›

  • Wings Stocks – wreck hunter

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    The following interview – one of a series profiling influential and often little known diving personalities – first appeared in the December/January 2002 of Asian Diver Magazine. —————— A veteran of diving’s ‘technical revolution’, Wings Stocks is an accomplished exploration… Read More ›

  • A Lesson in Lunacy

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    I always enjoyed reading the, ‘I-Learned-About-Diving-From-That’ articles that once appeared in the pages of diving magazines: dramatic tales of being caught in the “invisible death grip” of a down current; becoming trapped inside the compartment of a wreck; being left… Read More ›