The multi-coloured wall of the Northern archway moves fluidly with the current as we silently glide past. Moving closer, a cornucopia of encrusting organisms become visible, stipes of kelp brush past my face and I move in for a look at an intricately decorated nudibranch making it’s way across a bright red sponge. Suddenly a […]

During the long DEMA weekend I talked with Karl Huggins who runs the Catalina hyperbaric chamber off the coast of Los Angeles. Karl is such a strong supporter of the scholarship and has been taking on scholars for almost longer than he can remember! After a quick discussion on my interest in diving and hyperbaric […]

When you talk to people about the Our-World Underwater Scholarship and what it entails, they often ask where your next port of call is, in recent weeks when I replied Las Vegas, I was met with some quizzical looks. “Not much diving in the desert!” people would reply. While the large pool outside Caesars palace […]

I first met Charlie Beeker at the annual OWU scholarship reception in New York. He mentioned he wanted to get the current scholars down to his field site in the Dominican Republic at some point during the scholarship year on an archaeological fieldwork trip. Naturally my eyes proceeded to bulge out of my head with […]

Landing at Durham airport North Carolina at noon on a Tuesday, I walked into the airports main foyer and was greeted by a smiling Dan and Betty Orr, my hosts and figureheads of the Divers Alert Network (DAN). A non-profit organisation dedicated to providing advice, insurance, and safety to the diving world. Dan, Betty, and […]