Archives for the ‘Features’ Category

Down In the Devil’s Georgia: Paddling the Land of the Trembling Earth

By Travis Marshall • Jun 18th, 2010 • Category: Features

The word “lost” deserves some deference. It tends to upset people, and therefore should only be uttered once all other adjectives regarding one’s position have been carefully reviewed and rejected. As the de facto leader of a modest flotilla of canoes plowing through the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge in southern Georgia, I tried to maintain [...]



Photo Gallery: The Islands of Samoa

By Travis Marshall • Apr 24th, 2010 • Category: Features

Photos of people and places from the beautiful, unspoiled and incredibly friendly islands of Samoa.



Top Ten Papua New Guinea Adventures

By Travis Marshall • Jan 19th, 2010 • Category: Features, Portfolio

Away.com, Dec. 2009 Calling Papua New Guinea a diverse country doesn’t even begin to describe the variations on culture, language, landscape, and wildlife that perpetually bombard the senses when traveling here. This island nation, which sits just north of Australia in the South Pacific, is comprised of more than 1,000 distinct cultures and 860 native [...]



Beneath the Jungle: Journey to the Depths of the Mayan Underworld

By Travis Marshall • Jan 11th, 2010 • Category: Features

Scuba Diving Magazine, Jan./Feb. 2010 Belted into the passenger seat of a four-door pickup — the bed full of dive gear — I’m rolling down a narrow stretch of paved road that cuts through a buzzing swath of Yucatan jungle listening to my dive guide, Nat Wilson, explain the mythology behind the freshwater-filled caverns we’ve [...]



Advanced Adventure: S.S. Thistlegorm

By Travis Marshall • Sep 24th, 2009 • Category: Features

Uncover the secrets of the Red Sea’s greatest wreck, the S.S. Thistlegorm.



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.



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 [...]



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 [...]