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My apologies for this being a little out of line with the usual techdiver mail, but the following is probably of interest to the Australian readers only. The Sydney University Speleological Society (of which I'm a member) has arranged for a visit to Australia in October/November by Rob Palmer. For those who don't know of Rob I'll conclude this mail with a brief bio. While in Australia he will be teaching two Cave Diving courses under the IANTD banner at Jenolan Caves in New South Wales. We have also arranged for a lecture night presentation from him at 7.30pm Tuesday 9 November, in the Stephen Roberts Theatre at the University of Sydney. He will be discussing cave diving exploration and technical diving. He also hopes to be able to bring along one of the Carmellan rebreathers under development. Sharing the bill on that night, by way of contrast, will be Ben Nurse with a presentation on the early cave diving at Jenolan. These dives were made in the '50's using military surplus and home made gear. The first dives were conducted using hand pumped air. Tickets for the lecture night are $10. Mail me if anyone wants any more details. Greg Ryan gregr@cs*.su*.oz*.au* ---- Rob Palmer is one of Britain's leading cave-divers and one of the world's foremost underwater explorers. He has led multiple expeditions to the Blue Holes of the Bahamas, including the mixed gas explorations of the Andros Project in 1987, and has almost 20 years experience of cave diving exploration. He was active in the underwater exploration of the Wookey Hole complex in the UK, and has explored caves in Europe and the Philippines. A freelance writer, diver and photographer, he has worked on the production of three films on the Blue Holes for the BBC and National Geographic, and has authored two books on the Bahamas expeditions. He is currently a director of IANTD (UK) and is the special projects director of Carmellan Research, which is currently developing the Kraken mixed gas rebreather. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and Explorer's Club and was the first recipient of the Colin McLeod Prize for outstanding contributions to international diving activities from the BSAC.
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