Posts Tagged ‘diving’

Corals and Critters at the Edge of the World

By • Sep 5th, 2011 • Category: Features, Portfolio

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.



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

By • Jan 11th, 2010 • Category: Features, Portfolio

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 [...]



Bullet Train

By • Sep 28th, 2009 • Category: Portfolio, Travel Articles

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.





Advanced Adventure: S.S. Thistlegorm

By • Sep 24th, 2009 • Category: Features, Portfolio

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



Into the Labyrinth: Missouri’s Bonne Terre Mine

By • May 13th, 2009 • Category: Portfolio, Travel Articles

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





Cracking the Coral Triangle

By • May 1st, 2009 • Category: Portfolio, Travel Articles

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.



Crossing the Line: Commercial Diver Training

By • 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.



Disaster Proof Your Dive Vacation

By • Sep 28th, 2008 • Category: Portfolio, Travel Articles

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



Cozumel: Where Easy is an Institution

By • 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 • 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 [...]



Alligator vs. Diver

By • 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



Holy *&^#! Killer Squid!

By • 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