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  • Terry Cummins – Dive Educator

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    Some years ago, I interviewed, Terry Cummins – then still involved with PADI – on his thoughts about diving, and, more particularly, the diving industry.  Since then, he has added to his academic qualifications with a PhD. A person who… Read More ›

  • P.L.U.T.O. Pups

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    Operation PLUTO (Pipe Line Under The Ocean) was to supply petrol from storage tanks in southern England to the advancing Allied armies in France in the weeks and months following D-Day during the latter stages of WWII. Constructing flexible yet… Read More ›

  • Taking Solace From The Quantum

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    uAccording to one of my many dismal school reports, and, in part, thanks to a Physics teacher’s comments, I, “lacked an imagination”. That particular physics teacher could have truthfully also added that I always appeared to be bored by the… Read More ›

  • A Load of ‘Old Cobblers’.

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    It was almost dusk on one of those perfect days in late Summer.  Krabmann, our host, eased his bulk out of the sturdy Planters chair and set about freshening our drinks, pausing occasionally to listen to the muffled sounds of… Read More ›

  • Raising the ‘Vasa’

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    Launched in 1627, the Swedish warship, ‘Vasa’, capsized and sank in Stockholm harbour in 1628 while setting out on her maiden voyage. Although most of her cannons were recovered in 1664, the warship remained largely undisturbed until its rediscovery in… Read More ›

  • “Hazardous And Arduous Service” – Part 2

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    X-Craft   Developed by the Royal Navy, in 1942 during WWII, as a more potent undersea weapon than the ‘Chariots’, the X-craft were midget submarines manned by a crew of four – one of whom was the designated diver. Embodying… Read More ›