Español Subgravity Skills Bootcamp Divers Alert Network (DAN) was my next stop on this journey, but before getting there I paid a visit to last year’s North American Rolex Scholar Leah Potts and her Subgravity team! Subgravity specializes in providing the diving community with very technical gear for more specific diving, such as caves, wrecks, […]
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An Arctic Education
An institution centered around sustainability and safety, The University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS) is an innovative place where students and scientists alike come for polar education and research. During my stay in Longyearbyen, Norway, I was lucky enough to receive a tour of UNIS facilities from Arctic Biology Department Head Professor Børge Damsgård. UNIS was established in […]
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 […]
The Silent Side of Diving
Breathe in, breathe out…no bubbles, just silence. Whoa. Magic? Maybe. A whole new world? Definitely. You know your scholarship year is going to be incredible when just the first experience alters your entire perspective on diving…and that is exactly what happened during my Subgravity Defender TDI Air Diluent course with Jon and Lauren Kieren in the […]