In 1975 the entry level diving course that we taught was of four weeks duration and included two evening theory sessions per week with the Saturdays and Sundays given over to practical diving instruction. A standard part of the course… Read More ›
salvage 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 ›
Diving Knives
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 ›
A Corkhead’s Chronicle
A Corkhead’s Chronicle: Experiences of a Royal Navy Clearance Diver 1955 – 76 By: David J Lott BEM A riveting page-turner, ‘A Corkhead’s Chronicle’ is an enthralling, warts-and-all account of one man’s life and experiences as a Royal Navy Clearance… Read More ›
Full Buoyancy Jacket – Diving in Vietnam
“I love the smell of neoprene in the morning. It smells like” … disaster? Surfacing from the first dive of the day we watched our boat slide across the South China Sea toward the distant horizon, the Vietnamese skipper blissfully… Read More ›
Send down a diver – Part Two
Throughout the second half of the nineteenth and into the early years of the twentieth centuries, the pace in successful deep diving had been set by civilian divers such as Lambert and his contemporaries. Relying more on guts than on… Read More ›
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