Had recreational diving been an option when Charles Darwin set out aboard ‘HMS Beagle’ on his ground-breaking scientific voyage of discovery, then there’s a very real possibility that he may have scrapped the whole notion of natural selection and the… Read More ›
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“Here there be Monsters.”
The makers of ancient navigational charts had it easy: whenever they ran out of information on the boundaries of the known world they just scrawled quick and convenient warnings like, “Here there be Monsters”, around the edges of their maps… Read More ›
Diving & The Media: A Survival Guide – 7
Continuing with abridged extracts from the ‘Diving & The Media: A Survival Guide’: “WE HAVE A PROBLEM.” All sectors of the diving industry have a different interpretation of what constitutes a crisis. For an Equipment Manufacturer or Distributor, a crisis… Read More ›
“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 ›
What a Guy
First published in 1934 and widely regarded as the first book to popularise recreational snorkelling and scuba diving, Guy Gilpatric’s, “The Compleat Goggler”, concludes with, “Man, we reflected, has polluted the rivers, destroyed the forests, pitted the fields with high… Read More ›
Deep thoughts
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 ›