This week I’m hunkering down at Captain Slate’s Atlantis Dive Center among a mountain of scuba books and manuals.  I’m taking the big professional plunge and becoming an Open Water Scuba Instructor!   Long time OW-USS supporter, Captain Spencer Slate owns the Florida Key’s longest running scuba, snorkel and glass bottom boat tour company, in […]

The OWUSS family gets bigger and bigger each year with new scholars, interns, hosts and friends. This network and these connections are what make the experience so incredible. While in Key Largo, Florida I had the opportunity to meet former REEF Intern Stephanie Roach and work with her on her new project. Since finishing her […]

Former Scholar, OWUSS Board Member and photographer-extraordinaire Sara Shoemaker Lind invited me to San Francisco to kick off the year getting to know my camera system. Photography has interested me for years, but my greatest shots have been more chance than calculation. With an opportunity like this one to see so many amazing parts of […]

When watching underwater films it’s easy to be swept up into the amazing beauty of the images on the screen. I am not sure I ever fully appreciated the expertise of the world’s best professionals whose craft and skill bring us these images. Truth is, every bit of it is way harder than it looks! […]

If you have been following this blog through my year-long journey then you have probably seen a pattern emerging– cave diving!  I fell in love with cave diving on my very first dive with Jill Heinerth in Ginnie Springs and have since made it a point to visit Jill in North Florida as often as […]