Talofa! 14°15’16″S, 170°41’41″W marks the location of the United State’s southernmost National Park (in fact, the only US National Park in the Southern Hemisphere), the National Park of American Samoa. Tutuila, the main island of American Samoa, is a beautiful island with striking steep green mountains and a scattering of cliffs and beaches along its shoreline. […]

After leaving the Pacific Northwest I traveled east to spend a couple of weeks in Massachusetts with the Malkoski family enjoying the beautiful colors of fall and getting a proper taste of the area that included lobster, Dunkin’ Donuts, and a visit to Plymouth Rock (not all at the same time, of course). My first stop […]

These first few weeks of September marked my stay in the fairly wild Pacific Northwest.  I started in British Columbia, Canada, where I visited John deBoeck, the owner and operator at the Browning Pass HideAway Dive Resort. The HideAway is an array of floating cabins tucked into Clam Cove (google Nigei Island to see where […]

After my time in Southern California I shot up north to my old stomping grounds in the Bay Area. My first stop was Monterey, where I visited Light & Motion in Marina where I learned all about their assembly process and the different types of lights and housings they make! After Marina I went up […]

Without the amazing sponsorships, the OWUSS Rolex Scholarship year would not be possible and these past weeks I was lucky to visit some of these sponsors. My first stop was Santa Ana, where I visited Ocean Technology Systems and got the grand tour from Renee Pelissier. I got to learn about all their different full-face […]