In OWUSS history, it is not that common to find scholars crossing paths – not usually long enough to get a dive in together anyway! So I was pretty stoked to be able to spend a full day diving with the 2018 North American Scholar Yann Herrera-Fuchs on Catalina Island after we had attended DEMA […]

I had landed in one of the most famous cities in the world for film and the television industry – Los Angeles. I would spend the next week undertaking an STO (Set-up, Test and Operate) course with the team at Gates Underwater Products and a colour-grading course in the film editing software program Davinci Resolve, […]

After a month of intense diving in the Philippines, it was time to get back into study! This time I was extremely fortunate to be hosted by Dive Centre Manly in Sydney, where I would be undertaking my PADI Instructor Development Course (IDC). This was a week of intense training, where my course director Richard […]

Unbelievably it had already reached that point in my scholarship year – the half-way mark! This would see me heading to DEMA, one of the largest diving shows in the world, in a place as far away from the ocean as you could imagine, Las Vegas. DEMA presented a perfect opportunity to meet many new […]

My next scholarship experience would take me to a remote island in the Philippines, Ticao Island, where I would be working alongside scientists and researchers from the Large Marine Vertebrate Research Institute Philippines, also known as LAMAVE. Here I would spend the next month working as a research assistant with the diving team, a group […]