Diving suits: growing up with the URG: Denise Lawler, current Secretary and past President of the Underwater Research Group of NSW (URG), remembers growing up with URG and explains how diving has eventually become a part of her life. Denise was born in 1963 and can still remember the smells associated with her father’s (Clarrie Lawler) diving; the fishy smell, the smell of the neoprene diving gear that was washed out afterwards. While Denise didn’t start diving until she was 40, it has become an important part of her life. Compared with diving in the tropics or in lakes. Sydney diving is more challenging in terms of visibility out at sea and there is swell and chop and colder water, factors that add a level of anxiety to the dive. Denise is more interested in pretty fish and especially likes animals with personality like the giant cuttlefish and the eastern blue groper that hangs around divers. She has become a keen underwater photographer. While a late starter, it seems that, for Denise Lawler, diving suits.