Hanging on my office wall is a framed copy of The Times newspaper dated Thursday, November 7th 1805, carrying the first reports of the Battle of Trafalgar fought off the Spanish coast on the 21st October of that same year;… Read More ›
cave diving
“Somebody’s Got To Do It.”
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 ›
‘Hear’ today; gone tomorrow.
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 ›
Diving & The Media: A Survival Guide – 5
Continuing with extracts from the Crisis Management section of the Media Survival Guide: ________________ WHAT NOT TO SAY It is a natural reaction for any person involved in a diving incident to try to present themselves and their organisation in… Read More ›
A talk with John Bennett – Deep Diver
“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 ›
“The ‘Beagle’ has stranded.”
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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