Every year the Our World – Underwater Scholarship Society holds its Annual Awards Dinner and Meeting in April in New York City. The only challenge with this was that I was in Christchurch, New Zealand and to get there I had to travel 26,000 kilometres across the globe. I left Christchurch airport on Wednesday the […]

The 19th of March saw me crossing the ditch from Christchurch to Sydney to attend OZTek ’09 the Australian diving convention and exhibition. This was my first opportunity to meet the Australasian scholarship family and I was fortunate enough to meet Mat Kertesz the 2007 (and first) Australasian scholar, Steve Lindfield the 2008 Australasian scholar […]

Kia ora, and welcome, to what promises to be the journey of a lifetime. My name is Matt Carter and before the 21st of February 2009 I was just a regular student stressing over getting my Masters finished. However, this all changed when I was fortunate enough to be named the Our World – Underwater […]

Well this is going to be my last post as the Rolex Australasian Scholar for 2008/09. It has been a tremendous year and it all came to an end on the 25th April 2009. It was off to the bright lights of New York City for my final destination as the scholar. Finishing the scholarship […]