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 […]

When most people think of Sunny Key Largo, Florida, visions of key lime pie, and spicy conch chowder come to mind, fewer people think of the underwater habitat Aquarius. However this was precisely why I had come to visit the sunny state. The Aquarius habitat is a home to scientists as a means to conduct […]

I’m sitting aboard the Delfino, a traditional Maltese fishing boat converted into a dive vessel, Jace the captain calls out to cast off the mooring lines and we lazily drift away from the dock. Moving along slowly we pass by the high walls of the city of Valletta, the impressive skyline dwarfs our tiny boat […]

Stocking up on chocolate I said goodbye to Norway and opened my arms to welcome the United Kingdom. I was here to try something that I had been looking forward to from day 1 of the scholarship; Rebreather diving. Throughout my scholarship year I have been fortunate enough to meet, train, and be involved in […]

I was fortunate to spend a week in what has to be one of the most beautiful areas I’ve ever visited. Gulen, Norway is the site for the Nordic Photo Event run by UK photographer Alexander Mustard, OW-USS Scandinavian coordinator Lars Stenholt-Kirkegaard and Christian Skauge, the Editor of the Norwegian diving magazine Dykking. During the […]