On Tuesday, 13th April, 1999, John Lippmann, the late, Bob Ramsay, Grahame Weir and myself settled down in the former Billiard Room at Raffles Hotel, Singapore, for a quiet little drink as a prelude to the start of the following… Read More ›
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Vale Michael Menduno
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 ›
Selling Diving
Tarnished by an image that’s become associated with the high-pressure techniques of a used-car sales-person or the indifference of a poorly trained ‘phone-blower’, selling is often considered to be nothing more than a stop-gap vocation for people who happen to… Read More ›
A Message From M2
From 1996 – when, following the collapse of his beloved, aquaCORP Magazine, Michael turned his back on the diving industry – until his eventual return at the OZTeK2011 event, Michael Menduno and I remained firm friends maintaining regular communications with… Read More ›
The Navy Comes to Town – HMS Invincible
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 ›
Paradise in P.N.G.
The article that follows relates to a dive trip to Papua New Guinea in early 1996. —————— Papua New Guinea. Land of Adventure and Excitement. It’s everything that the travel brochures claim for it. And then some! Ragged mountain ranges… Read More ›
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