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• A Message From M2

  By Strike on October 11, 2025

  

  From 1996 – when, following the collapse of his beloved, aquaCORP Magazine, Michael turned his back on the diving industry – until his eventual return at the OZTeK2011 event, Michael Menduno and I remained firm friends maintaining regular communications with… Read More ›

• The Navy Comes to Town – HMS Invincible

  By Strike on October 6, 2025

  

  A forgotten South Atlantic ‘outpost’ of the former British Empire, the Falkland Islands came to public gaze when, on 20th April, 1982, Argentina’s ruling Junta asserted their claim to the islands by seizing military control.  Their actions elicited a military… Read More ›

• Paradise in P.N.G.

  By Strike on September 16, 2025

  

  The article that follows relates to a dive trip to Papua New Guinea in early 1996. —————— Papua New Guinea.  Land of Adventure and Excitement.  It’s everything that the travel brochures claim for it.  And then some!  Ragged mountain ranges… Read More ›

• Leaving Laos – 1989

  By Strike on August 27, 2025

  

  I have enormously fond memories of the time that I spent in what was then a quiet and forgotten backwater of Indo-China; a small Asian country that had had more bombs dropped on it during the course of the Vietnam… Read More ›

• “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 ›

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