As the new year began, I wanted to challenge myself by building on my diving skillset. I headed to North Carolina to complete my scientific dive training in Morehead, a coastal town that is home to the marine science campus of Duke University.  There I worked with Janelle Flemming, a scientific diver, who among her […]

There are times in your life when new worlds are opened. New worlds you didn’t even know you would love and yet there they are, waiting to be discovered. When I first dove in the ocean, that was one of them. When I first entered a cave, there it was again. That sense of magic […]

When I started my scholarship year, it had been one of my dreams to be able to work with natural history productions and in particular the Blue Planet team. This seemed like a far-fetched dream but I wrote I brought it up anyway. Little did I know that one of the former OWUSS scholars now […]

I had the joy of attending DEMA at the midway point of my scholarship year, to present my mid-year video, to meet so many of the scholarship’s incredible community of sponsors, hosts and family  and to network and learn more about the dive industry.  When I arrived, Robin MacFadden Parish, the Vice President of North […]