Technical Scuba Diving
I was recently on guest on "Off Gassing : A Scuba Podcast" which is hosted and published by Nick Hogle. Nick got in touch with me after I published the "Close Call on the IJN Sata" article and wanted to talk about my diving journey and about the incident on the Sata. Nick and I [...]
Background One of the challenges of sharing photogrammetry models on-line is that there aren't a lot of sites that allow viewing and uploading of very high definition models. Most of the time, this doesn't really matter. Viewers just want to get a sense of the wreck, move it around, zoom in a few different areas, [...]
Intro I've been on the A.C.E. wreck out of Dana Point quite a few times. The last time I dove it was December 2022 and I built a photogrammetry model of the wreck. For a single dive, the model came out pretty good and involved a 90 minute dive (60 minutes bottom, 30 minutes deco) [...]
Summary Tyler "the magician" Stalter has done it once again - we found another airplane wreck based on his bathymetric research. Danny Graham operates the Triton out of Channel Islands Harbor in Oxnard and we've been trying for quite some time to do some diving on his boat to go look for new wrecks. We [...]
Intro Tyler Stalter has, once again, located a new wreck and we have a high probability identification. This discovery was part of the Expedition Unknown TV show so we had to keep it under wraps for a little while. The wreck is down near Imperial Beach in relatively shallow water which means that visibility is [...]
Intro [NB: I want to set the record straight: Tyler Stalter was the person who came up with the whole idea for this episode and he also found and identified the Bearcat target that we dove during filming. The filming date got moved around and Tyler couldn't participate due to work commitments. We filmed multiple [...]
Intro This will be my fourth Top 10 Dive list since I started the tradition in 2020. I honestly thought I would never top 2022 which included wreck diving trips to Croatia & Malta and discovering numerous new wrecks here in Southern California. Happily, I was wrong. 🙂 I'll say it again this year: I [...]
Intro Tyler and I had a few targets that were deep that we wanted to check out and we had a weather window recently to go look at them. We headed out on Dec 11, 2023 on the Marissa with Lora, Chris, Captain & Scout. Tyler had a friend who had located an airplane during [...]
Intro On my flights home from Bikini, United Airlines had a "meltdown" as documented in my Trip Report and I couldn't get from HNL to LAX after flying KWA-MAJ and MAJ-HNL and arriving (2+ hours late) at some crazy hour like 4am. As a result, I ended up spending a long layover in Honolulu and [...]
(NB: This post is an in-depth look at the process I have developed for building "textures" using different photo sets and might be a little too in-depth for the casual reader). Background In most of my photogrammetry models, I'm not trying to make them "artistic" and I use the JPG files straight of the camera [...]
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