East Coast, West Coast

From Kenya I flew straight to snowy Boston, where I switched gears to take a Human Factors in Diving course with Gareth Lock.  This course is designed to unlock high performance in teams and I took it with several other dedicated rebreather and technical divers.  Throughout the course you learn about why mistakes are made, […]

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Land of the Midnight Sun

When I stepped off the plane in Longyearbyen, Norway, the world’s northernmost settlement at 78 deg N, the sun was shining brightly and I was surrounded by water and arctic snow-capped mountains.  Not too unusual for mid-June, right?  Right…except that the local time was 2am. Welcome to the land of the midnight sun. So how […]

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New York to Pennsylvania to Denmark to…the Arctic?!

Hello from the North Pole!  Well…almost.  I’m writing from Longyearbyen, which is located in the Svalbard archipelago, halfway between Norway and the North Pole.  It also happens to be the world’s northernmost settlement. It has been quite the journey over the past month to get here.  I started off diving with National Geographic photographer Keith […]

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