The Bozanic Team arrived on the site around 9:30am, and promptly dove right in, or at least would have if I hadn’t decided to try diving with Joe Hoyt’s dry gloves.  Swapping the zip seals on my drysuit took awhile, and after doing a surface test on both gloves and determining that the right one […]

Today was Filip and my first foray into mapping an underwater feature.  Sami mercifully (and smartly) gave us a giant triangular metal feature to map, tucked at one end of the baseline.  It’s a relatively simple shape, and a very good starting feature for us. Once under the surface, the first thing I noticed was […]

First day of diving!  We were able to do three dives on the Gold Dredge today: all were done with the goal of familiarizing ourselves with the site and helping Jeff Bozanic to get some grab shots of the National Park Submerged Resources divers working on the Dredge.  I’m still getting used to diving on […]

I arrived at Lake Mohave at about 9pm with Jeff Bozanic (our fearless Rebreather Instructor), and my European Our World-Underwater Scholar counterpart, Filip Wolski.  For the sake of simplicity, we’ll be referred to as the Bozanic team from now on. We met Sami Seeb, Principal Investigator for the Lake Mead Gold Dredge project (LAME Gold […]

I’m going to do some back-logged posts to catch y’all up on what’s been going on at this historic gathering, but for now, here is a link to Cristina Mittermeier discussing why photography is so important to conservation. http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/2505654