Last March at the Beneath the Sea Dive Show, I met Mike Fowler, President of a company called Silent Diving. Silent Diving sells three different types of rebreathers: the Inspiration, the Evolution and the Evolution +. A rebreather is a piece of scuba equipment that is able to recirculate the diver’s breath by scrubbing out […]

Does anyone else find the Red Bull commercials incredibly compelling? I’m sure some of you in the audience are unfamiliar with what I am talking about so here’s a link to one. And no, Red Bull is not a sponsor for this scholarship, although they would probably be a useful one. This is free advertising […]

50 years ago, a diver by the name of Richard Long founded a company called Diving Unlimited International – or DUI. DUI has become famous for their top-of-the-line drysuits but unbeknownst to me, they do a lot more than that. They provide equipment for recreational weekend divers, technical divers, public safety divers, commercial divers, military […]

In the winter of 1942, two French men by the names of Jacques Cousteau and Emile Gagnan invented something that would drastically alter the interactions between humans and our watery planet. This invention was deemed the Aqua-Lung. It allowed those gill-less people to peer into the depths and observe an alien world, the underwater world. Previous […]

What a journey I’m about to embark upon! I was notified in March that I was selected to be the next North American Rolex Scholar for the Our World-Underwater Scholarship Society (quite the mouthful!). I have been dreaming of this incredible opportunity ever since I heard about it during a scientific diving internship at the […]