After completing a successful underwater archeology project in the Dominican Republic (see blog) I headed to North Carolina with Megan Cook to visit Divers Alert Network (DAN). DAN has been operating for the last 30 years and is the diving industry’s largest association dedicated to Scuba diving safety. As you can see we Scholars travel light!   […]

Okay just before I launch into my epic submersible adventures, I wanted to just let people know that Megan Cook (USA Scholar) and Oscar Svensson (EU Scholar) have written some awesome blogs about our time at the DEMA awards party and also in the Dominican Republic. If you would like to have a read of […]

I would like to start this blog by saying something that I know prior recipients, hosts, and committee members of the Our World – Underwater Scholarship Society already know. The Scholarship, which I have had the incredible privilege to receive this year, is one of the most unbelievable, remarkable and wild experience one could ever […]

Oscar and I reunited in the USA in November and started our US tour by visiting past American scholar Josh Stewart and his girlfriend Madeline in San Diego. The trip began with an 8 hour bus from Las Vegas to San Diego after we decided against hiring a car (a good plan on our behalf […]

For a marine biologist Kimbe Bay in Papua New Guinea is an overwhelming delight. Delightful, because of its marvelous beauty and overwhelming, because of its sheer diversity. This small bay is home to 76 % of the world’s coral species and 820 species of coral reef fish!   Kimbe Bay sits on the north coast […]