Seldom receiving the recognition they deserve, the following article about the New South Wales Police Diving Unit was first published in ‘Professional Diver Journal’ in early 1996, shortly after the Unit celebrated their Diamond Jubilee as one of the World’s… Read More ›
Diving without some sort of cutting implement is like eating fish and chips without the salt and vinegar. You can do without. But why try? An equipment item that usually receives low priority both in its selection and its maintenance… Read More ›
With so much emphasis placed on sleek equipment design and technology, it’s hardly surprising that divers tend to give greater priority to things like face masks and fins than they do to their more important biological bits and pieces. Take… Read More ›
If Archimedes had been taking a shower instead of a bath then it might have been centuries before somebody else came along and defined the principles of buoyancy. It was a random thought that popped into my head while I… Read More ›
“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.” – Sir Isaac Newton, 1676. The nature of technical diving is to push back the boundaries of knowledge, not through reckless bravado, but rather through… Read More ›
Without doubt one of the best-remembered events of the last century will be that moment, in July 1969, when Neil Armstrong announced to a waiting audience back on Earth, “The Eagle has landed”. Climbing down from the lunar landing module… Read More ›
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