NAVY clearance diver Troy Miles gropes blindly through murky water to search for Iraqi mines. He emerges from the Persian Gulf to hear the rattle and boom of the war above him. Back home in Cairns, his wife Ali Miles hears all Troy's horror stories over the telephone. "He said the dust storms are like cyclones and the water he is diving in is so dark he can hardly see in front of him," Mrs Miles said after speaking to her husband on Thursday. "He can hear the battle overhead. He said it was full on, pretty mad. He said...