There are old divers and bold divers, but there are no old bold divers...Public Lecture | Updated 1 decade ago TUCF Hard Suit Ray Farrier, Managing Director, Unitech Subsea Australia; Society for Underwater Technology – Perth Committee6.00pm, Friday 18 NovemberNWS Shipping TheatreSaturation divers live, eat and breathe (sometimes weeks at a time) under pressure in a pressurized steel tube they call home. Going to work in a pressurized diving bell and working hundreds of feet below some of the roughest oceans in the world, in a world inhabited by creatures that live in the dark...not a job for the faint hearted!Ray was a former member of the elite British Commando Brigade based in Plymouth-UK. In 1974 and looking for even bigger adventures Ray ventured offshore into the (then fledgling) North Sea oil & gas industry as a commercial diver. In 2004 Ray hung up his diving boots but over his 30 years of diving had spent collectively over 1500 days encapsulated in a saturation diving chamber living in a twilight world, a world where survival was completely dependant on others. Come and hear the perils and pit falls of what it takes to be a commercial deep sea diver.This lecture celebrates the major new exhibition launching at Western Australian Museum – Maritime Immerse: Exploring the Deep (3 September 2011 – 2 March 2012).COST: $12 per person. Includes refreshments after the lectureBOOKINGS: Essential on 9431 8455. Please RSVP by 5.00pm, Wednesday 16 November WA Maritime Museum Fri 18 Nov 2011 6:00pm – 7:00pm