My trip to the Dominican Republic (DR) started at 2 am the morning of my flight by a phone call stating that my airport shuttle was ready for me (even though it wasn’t supposed to pick me up until 2:45 am!) That got me up and going at a much faster pace than originally planned […]

This past week was a hectic one – after flying back home from DAN, I had 3-4 days to prepare and pack for a month of adventures. I spent Sunday resting and mentally preparing myself for the month ahead.   Monday I woke up incredibly early to go to NASA’s Sony Carter Training Facility (also […]

My first official trip as the scholar, after the awards ceremony in New York City, was a week-long trip to visit the Divers Alert Network (DAN) headquarters in Durham, North Carolina. I have been a member of DAN for as long as I’ve been a diver, but luckily have never needed to use the organization […]

I have spent the last 6 years of my life in what I like to think of as “controlled uncertainty” mixed with “comfortable adventure” .  Throughout my undergraduate education at the University of Southern California (USC) I had a perfect combination of adventure, exploration, and going into the unknown with regiment, scheduling, and sureness. Every […]

Continuing my Australia adventures, I continued on to Sydney to represent the Our World-Underwater Scholarship Society at OZTek, a tech diving conference that is Australia’s biggest dive show.       OZTek was a great way to catch up with people I had previously met, as well as meet a lot of interesting people in the diving industry! After […]