I’ve been in South Africa for a few weeks and I love it here!  My first stop upon arriving was Gansbaai/Kleinbaai to visit the people of Marine Dynamics and the Dyer Island Conservation Trust.  Having put white sharks on the top of my priority list I was pretty excited to finally see one for myself. […]

After finishing my research cruise to the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands I quickly found myself on a flight to Kailua-Kona on the Big Island to help out on a National Geographic TV shoot!  The project was a huge NatGeo production exploring the Big Island from the top of the volcanoes all the way to the deep […]

(Note: This is the first of 2 posts about the NW Hawaiian Islands research cruise. If they are posted in the wrong order, please read this one first.) After narrowly missing Hurricane Irene in the Bahamas, I managed to make it in time to Hawaii to push off on a research cruise with the National […]

Day two at Pearl and Hermes Atoll marked the northernmost point of this expedition and was the first opportunity to catch and tag some of Papahanaumokuakea Monument’s charismatic reef predators.   The day was a mix of bottom-set long-line deployments, deep hand lining, and surface trolling with the aim of tagging Ulua (Giant Trevally) and Galapagos […]

Aloha, get to working on your 2012 Internship and Scholarship applications! Here is an awesome piece Sport Diver Magazine  recently ran summarizing what’s going on!  Also, check out the fresh new look for the Our World – Underwater Scholarship Society website!!!