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• Softly Tread The Brave

  By Strike on November 7, 2023

  

  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

  By Strike on November 3, 2023

  

  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

  By Strike on November 3, 2023

  

  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

  By Strike on October 21, 2023

  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 ›

• A Chat with ‘Scuba Diver UK’ – David Strike

  By Strike on September 16, 2023

  

  Mark Evans – Editorial Director of ‘Scuba Diver UK’ – recently invited me to join him in a Q&A session; one that (thanks to my verbosity) he ran over two issues of the magazine. While omitting many of the images… Read More ›

• Bubbles, Booze, Bombs and Bastards

  By Strike on July 9, 2023

  

  A speaker at the very first OZTeK – held at Sydney’s National Maritime Museum in April 1999 – former Royal Australian Navy Clearance Diver, Larry Digney’s, recently published memoir, , is a riveting account of a career spent in –… Read More ›

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