Manta rays are beautiful creatures that are found in most tropical and subtropical waters. During my stay at Palmyra, I am helping with a manta ray project led by Dr. Barbara Block from Stanford University, who is a recipient of the Rolex Award for Enterprise! For the past weeks Robbie Schallert, large pelagic fish tagger […]

Hey everyone! For those interested, here is some of Palmyra Atoll’s history.. Palmyra Atoll National Wildlife Refuge (PANWR), located in the equatorial Northern Pacific, has one of the few remaining near-pristine reefs on our planet. The atoll was first sighted in the late 1700s by Captain Fanning, and officially discovered in 1802 when the ship […]

Hello from Palmyra Atoll! I’ll be here for the next three weeks tagging manta rays! A lot more on this and background on Palmyra later, for now – here is the story of our attempts to get here… Palmyra Atoll is not an easy place to get to by any means. It is 1,000 nautical […]

Towards the end of my stay in Florida, I managed to embark on some great opportunities and brandish my new Aqua Lung gear and OTS Guardian full-face mask! East of Palm Beach, amidst boat channels and what at first appears to be only muck, is where I attended Reef Photo & Video’s  photography class taught […]

      SCUBA Diving technology had advanced significantly since the first compressed air breathing systems developed in the early 1900s, and leading the charge on this constant evolution you can often find technical divers. A few weeks ago I attended TEKDive USA in North Miami, FL. TEKDive is an advanced and technical diving conference where I […]