Mobulas and More in Mexico

Rubik’s Cubes, Mobula Aggregations, Spanish, and Drones…what do they all have in common, you might wonder? Well for starters, all of them can be pretty tricky to figure out, but more importantly these are the things l learned more about during my time in the southwestern peninsula that is Baja Mexico. I was invited to […]

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Road to Rhode Island

“Why go anywhere else when everything you need is here in RI?” or so my first host for the 2021 OWUSS scholarship would jokingly say to me while I was there. As the Diving and Safety Officer at the University of Rhode Island and a previous OWUSS Rolex Scholar in 2005, Anya Hanson and her […]

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Ice Cold Sponge Bath

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 […]

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Becoming Master Baiter

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 […]

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Going Full Florida

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 […]

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