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, […]
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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 […]
Hello Houston!
After a stay at home over the holidays, I set off for Houston in January to visit with longtime OWUSS regional coordinator Bob Straight and his wife Margie. The Houston area has lots to offer in the diving realm, such as NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Lab, Oceaneering International, Texas A&M at Galveston, and the offices for […]