A Diving Pioneer: Recollections & Training – We Compare with Today’s Training
Above L–R: Bill Young, Ivor Howitt and Ted Eldred. Bill with a Siebe Gorman unit with a side-hung oxygen bottle; Ivor with a Siebe Gorman unit that could …
Fighting Divers
Fighting Divers by Roger Meecham Images Pete Mesley During the summer of 1842 an incident occurred at Spithead that was to be the first and possibly the only …
An Interview with Ross McDonald
Ross McDonald (Nelson, New Zealand) by Sue Farley Ross is a dear old chap, forever smiling and full of stories. Heâ’s a big fellow tall, lean and …
Jeff Clay: A dive in the 1950’s
They say itâs a sure sign of old age when you start writing your memoirs! I catch up with Dive New Zealand occasionally, and with the plethora of new dive …
NZ Dive Pioneers
Interviewed by Ross Armstrong E. J. McCaffery, known to his friends as Mac, learned to dive in the late 1960s at the tender age of 52. Since then Mac has made …
Pioneers: Ivor Howitt- Memories of an Aberdeen Amphibian (pt2)
Pioneers: Ivor Howitt – Part 2 Australia 1950-1954 I arrived in Melbourne in December, and early in 1951 was able to christen my Siebe-Gorman unit in …
Pioneers: Ivor Howitt- Memories of an Aberdeen Amphibian
Pioneers: Ivor Howitt Part 1 In March 1914, off Watling Island in the Bahamas, John E. Williamson took the first ever underwater motion pictures. He achieved …