Paddle Steamer News
A Dive Into Oblivion
Friday May 31, 1996
The death at sea of Pat Bowring, an experienced diver, has baffled those who knew him. Rachel Gibson reports. SOME CALL it the Everest of diving. The Koputai, a paddle steamer wrecked three nautical miles off Bondi beach in the 1920s, is a dangerous deep-sea dive for which few are qualified. P