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An Economic Reality

By Travis Marshall • Dec 25th, 2008 • Category: Blog

I had taken the day off, but when the email came through on my phone alerting me to an “important meeting” the following day, I knew the dread I felt was shared by my coworkers back at the office. We had all watched the media landscape over the past couple months and seen magazines bigger [...]



Cross-Platform Productivity

By Travis Marshall • Nov 24th, 2008 • Category: Blog

I’m not much for unbridled product endorsement, but a recent addition to my productivity suite has provided me such pleasure that I feel inclined to make mention of it. Evernote goes beyond simple list making, though it performs that task quite well, offering easy note taking via text, email, voice record and camera phone. It [...]



Crossing the Line: Commercial Diver Training

By Travis Marshall • Oct 12th, 2008 • Category: Features, Portfolio

Scuba Diving Magazine, Dec. 2008
For one weekend, recreational divers can see the world through commercial diving hats at the Ocean Corporation’s Commercial Diving Experience.



Hawg Huntin’

By Travis Marshall • Oct 11th, 2008 • Category: Features, Portfolio

Walking on the wild side in Savannah, GA. I had never shot anything more ferocious than a soda can until I took this assignment over the summer. I met up with a pair of young, born-and-raised Georgia boys on the outskirts of town, and armed with a knife, a .357 revolver and one muscle-bound pit bull for back-up I followed them into a patch of Lowcountry swampland in search of feral hogs.



Welcome!

By Travis Marshall • Oct 1st, 2008 • Category: Blog

Well, many long days of deciphering code later and I’ve created my online magazine-format portfolio site. And if I do say so myself, it looks pretty good. Please take a look around, post comments or send me an email, and definitely check back because the content will change often.



Disaster Proof Your Dive Vacation

By Travis Marshall • Sep 28th, 2008 • Category: Portfolio, Travel

Scuba Diving Magazine, Oct. 2008 Ten tips for trouble-free dive travel. Download full article



Cozumel: Where Easy is an Institution

By Travis Marshall • Sep 28th, 2008 • Category: Features, Portfolio

Scuba Diving Magazine, Aug 2008 Ripping drift dives along lush reefs and dramatic walls draw more divers to Cozumel than any other location in the Caribbean. I took a look at the varied reef environments here and gave a service-heavy breakdown of Cozumel’s best dives, along with insiders’ tips from on-island diving experts that help readers [...]



Travis Marshall

By Travis Marshall • Sep 28th, 2008 • Category: About

A professional writer and editor specializing in adventure-travel and watersports coverage, Travis’ print work includes front-of-the-book news stories and adventure-travel content in Scuba Diving, Sport Diver and Men’s Journal magazines. He also contributes adventure-travel features, travel guides and resort reviews online at Away.com.



Secrets of the Bay Islands

By Travis Marshall • Sep 28th, 2008 • Category: Features, Portfolio

Scuba Diving Magazine, June 2008 When I stepped off the plane in the Bay Islands’ central hub of Roatan, two distinct faces of the dive tourism experience here immediately presented themselves. Outside the arrivals gate, taxi drivers jockeyed for fares for the 25-minute drive to West Bay, where the crowd is young, a variety of languages fills the air and [...]



Great Whites Off Limits at Guadalupe?

By Travis Marshall • Sep 1st, 2008 • Category: News, Portfolio

Scuba Diving Magazine, Sept. 2008 Guadalupe shark diving operators may lose access to one of the world’s hottest spots for white shark cage diving. Download full article



Alligator vs. Diver

By Travis Marshall • Aug 6th, 2008 • Category: News, Portfolio

Scuba Diving Magazine, Aug. 2008 Know what to do when an alligator attacks underwater? Ike Monreal survived, and you can too. Download Full Article



Nintendo Dives into Endless Oceans

By Travis Marshall • May 28th, 2008 • Category: News, Portfolio

Scuba Diving Magazine, May 2008 A new “diving simulator” for Nintendo Wii lets gamers get wet from their living rooms. Download full article



10 Tips For Healthy Travel

By Travis Marshall • Apr 6th, 2008 • Category: Portfolio, Travel

Scuba Diving Magazine, Apr. 2008 From the planning stages to post-trip symptoms, here’s how to stay safe abroad. Download Full Article



Holy *&^#! Killer Squid!

By Travis Marshall • Mar 30th, 2008 • Category: News, Portfolio

Scuba Diving Magazine, Mar. 2008 Meet the Humboldt squid: Length; up to eight feet. Arms; eight, plus two grasping tentacles. Vitals; an inquisative, calculating brain and three hearts pumping cold, blue blood. Defenses; 40,000 teeth embedded in 1,200 suction discs–and one razor sharp beak. Food; anything it can get its suckers on. Download full article



Ready to Get Tank’d?

By Travis Marshall • Mar 6th, 2008 • Category: News, Portfolio

Scuba Diving Magazine, Mar. 2008 Two dive instructors serve up a double shot of underwater action in a new dive travel and adventure TV series. Download full article