Light and Motion is one of many generous sponsors of the Our World Underwater Scholarship Society. I visited the factory and offices in Monterey Bay where they supply the world with some of the best dive lights and video housings in the industry. Blaise Douros was kind enough to give me a tour of the […]

Catalina Hyperbaric Chamber is run through the University of Southern California. Karl Huggins, a long time supporter of the scholarship, is the Director of the Chamber and invited me to learn more about his work. I arrived in Avalon, one of two towns on the island, after a long day travelling. The beautiful ‘casino’ building […]

In the small Puerto Coyote, on the Nicoya Peninsular of Costa Rica, fishermen head out past the breakers each evening. They lay their line which is held by buoys at either end and consists of many hooks that hang down to the sea floor. For the following 5 or so hours they check the line, […]

After a dusty bus ride from the capital of Costa Rica to San Francisco de Coyote, I was picked up by Erick Lopez of Pretoma. Pretoma is a non-profit that was set up in 1997 with the aim to preserve Costa Rica’s marine wildlife through research and conservation. Pretoma also works to promote sustainable fishing in Costa […]

Arriving in Durham, North Carolina, I was welcomed into the Diver’s Alert Network family – Patty Seery organised my entire visit; coordinating all the departments and made North American Scholar, Christian, and I feel incredibly welcome. Dan and Betty Orr, fantastic long-term supporters of the scholarship, were more generous than I could ever imagine. Divers […]