Five kilometres off-shore from Long Reef, on Sydney’s northern beaches, a handful of wrecks scuttled in 50-plus metres attract large numbers of recreational divers. For two technical divers attempting one of the deeper wrecks, a carefully planned dive turned to… Read More ›
Hailed as a prophetic masterpiece of science-fiction when it was first published in 1869, Jules Verne’s, “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea”, overlooked the earlier achievements of Augustus Siebe and his diving helmet and standard flexible dress. A diving breakthrough… Read More ›
“It’s easy for a diver to be a coward and difficult to be brave because he usually works alone, unseen, uncriticised and unpraised … most of the foes are within himself and the victories unobserved.” On this day in 1972,… Read More ›
Salvage diving has always been an aspect of diving that I’ve considered getting my teeth into. ———– A fly-speck on the map, Addu Atoll and the island of Gan are located just below the equator at the southernmost tip of… Read More ›
Strategically located at the tip of the Arabian Peninsula close to the eastern approaches to the Red Sea (and the Suez Canal’s sea-route connection between Europe and Asia) Aden was, in 1965, still a British protectorate; one that, two years… Read More ›
The problem with leaving my radio-alarm volume turned down to a gentle background drone is that while I’m slowly waking up to another day, I often confuse the tail end of dreams with news reports; a state of affairs that,… Read More ›
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