This makes Phil, like many other motor men, seem like just one of the mob obessed by pistons and power to weight ratios, but there’s more to this man than that.

Any man who dives beneath the sea does so because of a basic sense of wonder and love of beauty, a desire to enter another world.

Most week-ends Phil took his MG TF along the New South Wales’ coast bristling with spear guns and loaded with gas tanks like a B52.