
When we first met in Dolphin Offshore’s Belapur office, saturation diver Arjun Shetty’s T-shirt declared: “I’m sotally tober.” At our next meeting at his Dombivli home, his red tee said: “I fear no beer.” His favourite one, though, reads: “I’m not drunk, I’m chemically off balance.”
This 24-year-old has had this for five years, almost as [...]
March 26, 2008 | Posted in
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Hopes are fading for 18 Ukrainian sailors trapped underwater since their boat sank off Hong Kong after colliding with a Chinese cargo ship on Saturday. Hong Kong officials said the seamen could be alive if they had found an air pocket inside the upturned vesse
But divers who knocked on the hull of the tug, the [...]
March 26, 2008 | Posted in
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“Read an edited excerpt from Raising the Dead by Philip Finch” Don Shirley’s dive went smoothly at first. He headed down quickly. About five minutes in, he reached 120m. He knew that Dave Shaw should now be returning to the shot line, beginning his long return to the surface, with or without the body. During [...]

Australia – A RESCUE operation is underway off Stradbroke Island after a boat drifted away from three divers this morning. There is concern for the safety of the divers, one of whom is the boat’s skipper, who are trapped in heavy seas off the coast of Point Lookout.
The boat, which has two people on board, [...]
March 1, 2008 | Posted in
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