Technical Scuba Diving
Introduction After I finished the USS Emmons photogrammetry model, I sent a 6 foot long panorama poster of the model to Tom Hoffman who is on the Board of Directors for the USS Emmons Association. They have an annual reunion for the families and relatives of those who served on the USS Emmons and Tom [...]
Tyler and I will be presenting at the Long Beach Scuba Show on some of the new wrecks in Southern California that we have located and identified in the past few years. We are also planning to have some very special guests join us. 🙂 We will talk about the methods we use to locate [...]
Intro Steve Lawson belongs to the Adventurers' Club in Los Angeles and asked me to give a talk about my expedition to dive the HMHS Britannic in Kea, Greece in October 2023. It was a lot of fun and was done in an "interview style" and I was fortunate to have my wife attend with [...]
(Mis)Adventures in Wreck Diving I was honored to be asked by Steve Lawson to give the keynote speech at the 53rd Annual California Wreck Divers Banquet on March 2nd, 2024. I had just returned from some serious wreck diving in the Solomon Islands so I was a little jet-lagged and sick, but it was fun [...]
I've been pretty busy and haven't posted much lately but I have a ton of updates I'll be working on getting posted. The first is a quick announcement that I will be co-presenting at the annual Dive Equipment & Marketing Association (DEMA) show this year in New Orleans. This presentation should be quite interesting.... The [...]
I recently gave a presentation about some of the new wrecks that Tyler Stalter and I have located and identified. I also discuss how we find them and how we identify them along with some of the tools like photogrammetry. Below is a PDF of the presentation (I've removed two slides that were animations of [...]
I recently gave a presentation on the Zoom Seekers series. It was focussed on Southern California Wrecks and coves some of the tools we use to find and identify new wrecks. It provides details on how photogrammetry can be used for multiple purposes in wreck identification. I hope this presentation provides a peek into what [...]
I recently posted about a presentation I gave to the Orange County Underwater Photographic Society on Deep Wreck Photography. Part of the presentation described the benefits of photogrammetry but didn't provide any information about it. I returned and gave the presentation below which is more of a primer on the basics of photogrammetry, how it [...]
I was contacted earlier this year and asked to give a presentation to the Orange County Underwater Photographic Society on some of the shipwrecks and airplane wrecks in Southern California. Since it was a group of photographers, I developed a presentation about some of the challenges of taking photos on Southern California wreck dives that [...]
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