Recent Posts - page 6

  • USS Lagarto – On Eternal Patrol

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    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

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    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 ›

  • Softly Tread The Brave

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    A member of Melbourne’s ‘establishment’ and an executive in the family-owned newspaper, ‘The Melbourne Age’, Hugh Randall Syme was a highly decorated Royal Australian Naval Reserve officer who, during the Second World War, volunteered for hazardous duty in the ‘Rendering… Read More ›

  • For Whom The Bell Tolls

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    In 1799, HMS Lutine, a British frigate carrying 1,000 bars of gold and 500 bars of silver insured for £900,000 ( at least £80 million at today’s value) sank in a storm in just 40 feet of water within sight… Read More ›

  • A Simple Swap

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    Harry Wardle – later becoming the Royal Navy’s Deputy Superintendent of Diving, but, in 1947,  the Officer in Charge of the Royal Navy Diving School – recalls his meeting with Cousteau and the R.N.’s first – brief – flirtation with… Read More ›

  • Off Gassing Podcast – David Strike Interview

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    Having thoroughly enjoyed listening to Nick Ramsay Hogle’s series of, “Off Gassing Scuba Podcasts”, it was both an honour and an absolute pleasure to spend time chatting with Nick about all things diving. Hopefully, you enjoy listening to my sometimes… Read More ›