Our World – Underwater Scholarship Society in North America

Hi all,
I’m here in Monterey, CA, volunteering with the National Marine Sanctuaries to help a bit with the SIMON online photo database, which is an incredible free service, and I encourage you to browse the volumes and volumes of incredible images that are available to anyone every day of the year.
I’ll be diving a little [...]

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Lake Mead – Day 6.
Final day of diving – I buddied Andres Diaz and together we took down the baseline and collected all of the basetags and markers we could find.   After we finished our one dive, I returned back to the hotel with Filip, Jeff, and Evan, and we cleaned and packed up the [...]

Sami had tasked Filip and I with mapping the Ferry, another mercifully symmetrical feature of the site.  We completed two more dives with the goal of finishing up our last measurements on the ferry.  Although we took very detailed measurements, it was more difficult than I had thought it would be to translate them to [...]

The Bozanic Team arrived on the site around 9:30am, and promptly dove right in, or at least would have if I hadn’t decided to try diving with Joe Hoyt’s dry gloves.  Swapping the zip seals on my drysuit took awhile, and after doing a surface test on both gloves and determining that the right one [...]

Today was Filip and my first foray into mapping an underwater feature.  Sami mercifully (and smartly) gave us a giant triangular metal feature to map, tucked at one end of the baseline.  It’s a relatively simple shape, and a very good starting feature for us.
Once under the surface, the first thing I noticed was how [...]

First day of diving!  We were able to do three dives on the Gold Dredge today: all were done with the goal of familiarizing ourselves with the site and helping Jeff Bozanic to get some grab shots of the National Park Submerged Resources divers working on the Dredge.  I’m still getting used to diving on [...]

I arrived at Lake Mohave at about 9pm with Jeff Bozanic (our fearless Rebreather Instructor), and my European Our World-Underwater Scholar counterpart, Filip Wolski.  For the sake of simplicity, we’ll be referred to as the Bozanic team from now on.
We met Sami Seeb, Principal Investigator for the Lake Mead Gold Dredge project (LAME Gold Dredge), [...]