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!!!

While in the Bahamas with the Living Oceans Foundation I had the opportunity to go ashore on Little Inagua and explore!  The Inaguas are littered with sinkholes due to their karst topography and because of their remoteness they have barely been explored.  One night while at Little Inagua, researcher Bernard Riegel found one of these […]