Immediately following the Inaugural weekend in the big Apple, Kim- The 2019 European Scholar, and I flew to Durham, North Carolina where we were received by the incredible Patty Seery, Director of Training at Divers Alert Network (DAN). DAN is a vital organization, providing safety infrastructure to divers globally, as well as carrying out research […]

Back in 2015, I was spending my summer studying at the amazing Bamfield Marine Sciences Center on the west coast of Vancouver Island. I was a freshly certified Scientific Diver, still wet behind the ears (salt water obviously), and was eager to use my skills. I reached out to their DSO, and somehow convinced them […]

Español Governance is an integral part of any human-based conservation project. Strictly speaking, there are rules that make human activities oscillate between realms of legality, giving our natural resources a jurisdictional nature. But for the law of the sea, policies are not created to put people in jail, rather express, in writing, the best possible […]

Español The human potential will always be a source of extreme amazement for me. Last year Alexey Molchanov dove down to 130 m and back on a single breath. And in 2013 Natalia Molchanova held her breath underwater for 9 minutes. The combination of depth and breath-hold constitute today’s world of competitive freediving. But the […]

Español Rarely does one get the chance to experience the underwater world in a setting that is bubble-free and almost silent. The invention of the closed-circuit rebreather (CCR), an apparatus that allows you to recycle the air you breathe, has definitely revolutionized the extent of diving. Having heard many things about rebreathers, I decided it […]