After finishing up at Aquarius, I spent a few days in the Keys diving with friends and catching up on sleep!  I met with our Florida Coordinator Captain Slate for lunch and checked out his Atlantis Dive center.  After what felt like a very, very short weekend, I was on my way North to Fort […]

Scuba diving allows us to explore a world that is entirely different from our terrestrial, everyday lives. For most of us, this means one-hour forays into a strange habitat, which is entirely inhospitable to human life.  For even such a brief visit, complex life-support equipment is required to keep us breathing; as the original novelty […]

Just got permission to post some photos from the Australian Geographic Awards Ceremony!  Better late than never.

After a few days of rest we flew to Las Vegas for an eventful few days at DEMA.  As always it was… insane.  It’s almost as though they manage each year to construct a small city dedicated to all-things-scuba-diving.  My first DEMA was in Orlando last year, which was a pale shadow of this year’s […]

After the DR, Will and I stopped into NYC for a few days to catch up on paperwork and enjoy the fall foliage (which I was in serious danger of missing altogether thanks to tropical climates).  We stopped into a few museums, including the Natural History Museum’s famous whale room, perhaps my favorite childhood haunt, […]