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 […]

After finishing my CCR training in the USVI, I hopped on a plane to Australia. My adventures in this part of the world started in Sydney where I spent some time with Jayne Jenkins. Upon receiving a call about the excellent conditions at Nelson Bay, we packed up our gear and headed up the coast. At […]

I didn’t really think it could be possible to make a recreational dive on a day with great visibility and zero swell any more peaceful than it already is, but it turns out it is – do it in complete silence on a rebreather! Last week I did my closed-circuit rebreather certification course on the […]