Just got permission to post some photos from the Australian Geographic Awards Ceremony!  Better late than never.

After a few days of rest we flew to Las Vegas for an eventful few days at DEMA.  As always it was… insane.  It’s almost as though they manage each year to construct a small city dedicated to all-things-scuba-diving.  My first DEMA was in Orlando last year, which was a pale shadow of this year’s […]

After the DR, Will and I stopped into NYC for a few days to catch up on paperwork and enjoy the fall foliage (which I was in serious danger of missing altogether thanks to tropical climates).  We stopped into a few museums, including the Natural History Museum’s famous whale room, perhaps my favorite childhood haunt, […]

I’ve probably been to the Dominican Republic nine or ten times with the Indiana University Office of Underwater Science, but it just never seems to get old.  The diversity of field projects that are currently happening in the country, and the treasure-trove of new work waiting to be done make it one of the most […]

I’m inside Divers Alert Network HQ: center of the diving accident management world.  Thousands of phone calls come through this building every year, some of which require fast action in order to save lives.  Medics are on call 24 hours a day to address diving accidents all over the world and perhaps the most knowledgeable […]