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• Is It Dark In There? By Steve Lewis

  By Strike on January 20, 2024

  

  Reviewing a book is made so much easier when the reviewer has, at the very least, a smidgeon of insider knowledge regarding the topic.  Regrettably, pride often stands in the way when it comes to confessing one’s ignorance.  Which is… Read More ›

• The ‘Perfumed Harbour’ and the Cannon

  By Strike on January 11, 2024

  

  I’ve told the story before, but looking through an early diving log book, I see that it’s now almost 59-years since I made the entry, “Search for ceremonial brass cannon, basin, HMS Tamar, Hong Kong. Search unsuccessful. Poor visibility.” It… Read More ›

• A Chat with Bret Gilliam

  By Strike on January 5, 2024

  

  The 2019 impact of Covid, with its subsequent lockdowns and event cancelations, encouraged on-line ‘catch-ups’ and Zoom presentations and talks. One of those so affected, was Singapore’s annual ADEX Show – a regional dive event that, since its inception in… Read More ›

• Midget sinks the Mighty: XE-3 and the ‘Takao’

  By Strike on December 18, 2023

  

  Britain’s highest military honour, the Victoria Cross, was well deserved by people like Able Seaman Magennis, the diver aboard the midget submarine, XE-3, and it’s skipper, Lt. Ian Fraser, during the successful mission to sink the Japanese cruiser, ‘Takao’, at… Read More ›

• USS Lagarto – On Eternal Patrol

  By Strike on December 13, 2023

  

  In 2005, Thai diving veteran, the late, Jamie Macleod (owner and Instructor Trainer of a leading technical diving facility on the island of Koh Tao, in the Gulf of Thailand) together with Stewart Oehl, located one of the US Navy’s… Read More ›

• Rules to Live By

  By Strike on November 24, 2023

  

  I wrote the following to our daughter on the occasion of her 21st Birthday …. ————— The years have gone by so quickly since you were born, and in that time, I have been remiss in advising, counselling and guiding… Read More ›

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