Spent most of the day at the Sydney Aquarium with Maija Honkavaara, Programme Coordinator for the Sydney Aquarium Conservation Fund.  Maija showed me around and talked about the myriad local conservation programs the Aquarium’s involved in, including seahorse reintroduction, gray nurse shark conservation, and dugong rehabilitation.  I had an amazing day, especially because I got […]

Hi all, I’m here in Monterey, CA, volunteering with the National Marine Sanctuaries to help a bit with the SIMON online photo database, which is an incredible free service, and I encourage you to browse the volumes and volumes of incredible images that are available to anyone every day of the year. I’ll be diving […]

. Lake Mead – Day 6. Final day of diving – I buddied Andres Diaz and together we took down the baseline and collected all of the basetags and markers we could find.   After we finished our one dive, I returned back to the hotel with Filip, Jeff, and Evan, and we cleaned and packed […]

Sami had tasked Filip and I with mapping the Ferry, another mercifully symmetrical feature of the site.  We completed two more dives with the goal of finishing up our last measurements on the ferry.  Although we took very detailed measurements, it was more difficult than I had thought it would be to translate them to […]

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 […]