Scuba divers have kept Bonaire a secret for decades. They’ve long considered this Dutch municipality in the southern Caribbean a veritable home away from home, and happily allowed the rest of world to think its highly protected reef park is the only thing going for it. But today Bonaire is on the rise, and non-divers [...]

A new liveaboard scuba diving boat in Papua New Guinea’s Milne Bay offers open-ocean pinnacles and world-class muck diving at the heart of the Coral Triangle. Published in Scuba Diving magazine.

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 [...]

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 [...]

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

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