Archives for the ‘Portfolio’ Category

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 [...]



Bullet Train

By Travis Marshall • Sep 28th, 2009 • Category: Travel

Sport Diver, Oct. 2009
A thrilling account of diving with spinner dolphins off Lanai, Hawaii, from Sport Diver’s roundup of the world’s best big-animal adventures.





Worldwide Scuba Diving Travel Guide

By Travis Marshall • Sep 24th, 2009 • Category: Web Projects

Check out my ongoing project at Away.com, where I contribute as a “scuba diving travel expert,” building a comprehensive travel guide to the world’s best scuba diving destinations.



Into the Labyrinth: Missouri’s Bonne Terre Mine

By Travis Marshall • May 13th, 2009 • Category: Portfolio, Travel

Scuba Diving, Jun. 2009
Scuba diving into the far, flooded corners of the world’s largest abandoned lead mine.





Cracking the Coral Triangle

By Travis Marshall • May 1st, 2009 • Category: Portfolio, Travel

Scuba Diving, Nov. 2008
From the Philippines to the Solomon Islands, the Coral Triangle is the world’s hottest region for on-the-fringe diving.



Swimming With (Whale) Sharks

By Travis Marshall • Apr 2nd, 2009 • Category: Portfolio, Travel

Men’s Journal, Apr. 2009
Got some time off and a desire to dive alongside a creature the size of a school bus? Follow this route.



Go Before It’s Gone: Isla Guadalupe

By Travis Marshall • Apr 1st, 2009 • Category: News, Portfolio

Men’s Journal, Mar. 2009
A ban on chumming around this remote Mexican Island may cut off divers’ access to one of the world’s best shark diving hotspots.



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.



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 [...]



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