Continuing my Australia adventures, I continued on to Sydney to represent the Our World-Underwater Scholarship Society at OZTek, a tech diving conference that is Australia’s biggest dive show.       OZTek was a great way to catch up with people I had previously met, as well as meet a lot of interesting people in the diving industry! After […]

After finishing my CCR training in the USVI, I hopped on a plane to Australia. My adventures in this part of the world started in Sydney where I spent some time with Jayne Jenkins. Upon receiving a call about the excellent conditions at Nelson Bay, we packed up our gear and headed up the coast. At […]

I didn’t really think it could be possible to make a recreational dive on a day with great visibility and zero swell any more peaceful than it already is, but it turns out it is – do it in complete silence on a rebreather! Last week I did my closed-circuit rebreather certification course on the […]

Happy 2015 everyone! I kicked off the new year by making a quick run down to the Dry Tortugas National Park. About 70 miles west of Key West lie a small group of seven islands that make up the park, and thanks to Jim Nimz, the Park Dive Officer, and the rest of the folks […]

Thanks to the amazing sponsorship by Lindblad Expeditions, I spent three weeks aboard the National Geographic Orion on a fascinating island-hopping trip from Fiji to French Polynesia. On the trip we visited 13 islands and six countries; Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, Kiribati, the Cook Islands (New Zealand), and French Polynesia. This trip was one of the most interesting, […]