I arrived in Sydney still feeling the effects of the weekend in New York however, any remaining jetlag was soon forgotten upon visiting Sue Crowe at TUSA Australia.As one of the many perks of the scholarship TUSA outfits the Australasian scholar with a complete set of dive gear which includes not only all the standard […]
Category: 2009 Scholar Journey
A Kiwi loose in the Big Apple
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 […]
Operation OZTek
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 […]
Who me? A year travelling and scuba diving…OK!!
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 […]