It has been a while since I have been diving for science, so I was so excited that my next opportunity entailed this in the White Continent at the bottom of the world. For the past three weeks, I have been with researchers from the Universidad Mayor de Santiago at the Chilean Navy Base Arturo […]

Cage diving with great white sharks is the ultimate dream trip for many people. Diving in a cage was actually conceptualized, and actualized here in South Australia by the one and only Rodney Fox. Though today, Rodney is a sweet 79 year old man, he has lived a crazy life full of adventure. In 1963 […]

At the beginning of the year when I received the scholarship, I wrote out a list of goals I wanted to achieve by the end of the year. However, as the year has progressed, many of those goals have changed or new ones have been added. Becoming a scuba instructor was not on this original […]

I have retired the tank for the last couple of weeks to plunge into the realm of freediving. I flew into Kona, Hawaii to join Ryan Reed of Performance Freediving Academy for 20 intense days of training. Performance Freediving Academy, started in 2000, is one of the leading freediving schools globally. Their founder Kirk Krack […]

As the recipient of the Rolex scholarship, one of the questions I was often asked was “Where in the world do you want to dive the most?” For me, it was hands down the Revillagigedo Archipelago. This group of four islands 230 miles southwest of Cabo San Lucas is a site of aggregation and cleaning […]