On the 3rd October 2025, Michael Menduno – one of modern diving’s most enigmatic personalities – died following a stroke. Despite a public persona as the person whose name will, forever, be synonymous with the advent of ‘Technical Diving’ (as… Read More ›
In the early ‘Seventies, the work-horse helicopter of choice for North Sea operations was the Westland Wessex – usually flown by former Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm pilots – with the pilot sitting higher than the cabin. Obliged to always… Read More ›
A forgotten South Atlantic ‘outpost’ of the former British Empire, the Falkland Islands came to public gaze when, on 20th April, 1982, Argentina’s ruling Junta asserted their claim to the islands by seizing military control. Their actions elicited a military… Read More ›
I have enormously fond memories of the time that I spent in what was then a quiet and forgotten backwater of Indo-China; a small Asian country that had had more bombs dropped on it during the course of the Vietnam… Read More ›
Having spent a considerable portion of my life either organising, or helping to organise, dive-related events and activities, I was, until recently, rather proud to have had a hand in the development and growth of both the ADEX and the… Read More ›
Born and raised in Auckland, New Zealand, Peter Fields’ early ambitions to be a military aircraft pilot were thwarted when, after taking flying training with the Royal New Zealand Air Force, he was grounded for spurious reasons by an Army… Read More ›
