In the winter of 1942, two French men by the names of Jacques Cousteau and Emile Gagnan invented something that would drastically alter the interactions between humans and our watery planet. This invention was deemed the Aqua-Lung. It allowed those gill-less people to peer into the depths and observe an alien world, the underwater world. Previous […]

What a journey I’m about to embark upon! I was notified in March that I was selected to be the next North American Rolex Scholar for the Our World-Underwater Scholarship Society (quite the mouthful!). I have been dreaming of this incredible opportunity ever since I heard about it during a scientific diving internship at the […]