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Invitation to Guildford BSAC Speaker Programme
TUESDAY 25th JULY at 9pm GUILDFORD WATERSIDE CENTRE
Deep Diving and Hyperbaric O2 – Lt. Commander Cyril Lafferty RN – Ex Head of Royal Navy Diving Training and Mine-Warfare
In the 1960s and 1970s the Royal Navy was setting new benchmarks for depth and saturation diving, its divers were among the world leaders in the development of new equipment and diving practices and at the forefront was Lt. Commander Cyril Lafferty one of the UK’s pioneers in deep diving technology.
Cyril Lafferty trained with the Royal Navy as a Clearance Diver working in bomb and mine disposal and on a number of major marine incidents including the Sea Gem (1965) and Torrey Canyon (1967). He subsequently joined the Royal Navy’s deep diving research team, taking part in 600ft dives in the early 1960’s and commanded a specialist team diving to 250ft on compressed air for aircraft and nuclear weapon recovery operations. Cyril was invited by the US Navy to take part in the Sealab lll experiments and qualified as a USN Aquanaut together with Phillip Cousteau and the astronaut, Commander Scott Carpenter.
As one of the pioneers of saturation diving, Cyril took part in and ran experimental dives to 300m and was appointed Captain of HMS Reclaim, the navy’s deep diving research and salvage ship and took charge of all naval diving training and mine-warfare training.
Leaving Royal Navy in 1977, Cyril became a submersible pilot and manager of the diver lockout fleet for Vickers Oceanics, worked for both BP and British Gas in their underwater engineering and safety groups and set up a consultancy company to work with offshore oil and diving companies.
In his retirement Cyril has worked extensively with the Multiple Sclerosis Hyperbaric Oxygen facility at the Guildford Waterside Centre and as Senior Training Advisor for the 60 centres that are members of the National MS Therapy Centres group.
Cyril Lafferty will be speaking about his pioneering work in saturation diving and the use of Hyperbaric O2 at the Guildford Waterside Centre on Tuesday 25th July at 9pm. Food will be available from 7:30pm (more info to follow)
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Chris Day
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Social Secretary
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