Español The day finally came for me to confront my fear of putting together my camera equipment. For the past two months I have been dragging a suitcase full of lenses, arms, adaptors, batteries and all sorts of bits and pieces clueless of what I am carrying and scared that if I attempted to assemble […]
Category: Scholar Journeys
To North Carolina – Intro to tech diving and diver medicine
Español Subgravity Skills Bootcamp Divers Alert Network (DAN) was my next stop on this journey, but before getting there I paid a visit to last year’s North American Rolex Scholar Leah Potts and her Subgravity team! Subgravity specializes in providing the diving community with very technical gear for more specific diving, such as caves, wrecks, […]
Ready or not, here I come!
East Coast, West Coast
From Kenya I flew straight to snowy Boston, where I switched gears to take a Human Factors in Diving course with Gareth Lock. This course is designed to unlock high performance in teams and I took it with several other dedicated rebreather and technical divers. Throughout the course you learn about why mistakes are made, […]
Dust and Water
February took me to Laikipia, Kenya, where I lived for most of the month at Mpala Research Centre. Mpala is a research base run by Princeton University that sits on a large ranch filled with wildlife, very close to Mount Kenya and the Equator. Researchers come from all over the world to conduct their fieldwork […]