Martin Cridge, Captain of the Truk Master and stalwart of Dirty Dozen Expeditions, has handed away.
Cridge, with out a doubt one of many ideal characters in Truk Lagoon, and the damage and tech diving community as a entire, died all right away on Friday June 18th while in the Marshall Islands.
Mik Jennings, exchange and business manager at Master Liveaboards, stated about Cridge:
“His passing is incredibly surprising and elegant to every person who knew him and labored with him.
“There are only a pair of of us that knew extra, or be pleased been extra smitten by the wrecks and the diving in Chuuk and Bikini. Any individual who dived with him would perchance be pleased felt his infectious enthusiasm. Every person who dealt at as soon as with him at Master Liveaboards and The Dirty Dozen felt it too. Martin change into totally pivotal in us developing Bikini Atoll as a destination for Master Liveaboards as well to constructing the reputation of Truk Master as a extremely respected technical diving operation. No longer most attention-grabbing this however he change into instrumental in the discipline up and success of The Dirty Dozen Expeditions in Truk and Bikini.”
Jennings persisted:
“The diving world as a entire has lost an effectively-known captain, cruise director, technical guru, passionate damage historian, chamber operator, and factual as importantly, perchance essentially the most attention-grabbing Huddersfield Metropolis AFC fan in Micronesia. Master Liveaboards and The Dirty Dozen be pleased lost with out a doubt one of their family and his passing will hobble away a large gap in their lives.”
Cridge is survived by his wife Elaine and younger son Tyke. A crowdfunding internet page has been created, with the proceeds helping toward repatriating Cridge to his adopted dwelling and supporting his family by this time.
To donate, hobble to gofundme.com.
John Lianghttps://www.deeperblue.com/
John Liang is the News Editor at DeeperBlue.com. He first got the diving computer virus while in High College in Cairo, Egypt, where he earned his PADI Open Water Diver certification in the Crimson Sea off the Sinai Peninsula. Since then, John has dived in a volcanic lake in Guatemala, amongst white-tipped sharks off the Pacific Wing of Costa Rica, and diversified locations along with a pool in Las Vegas helping to spoil the field anecdote for the ideal underwater press conference.
