Technical Scuba Diving
Background Diving the deeper wrecks in "Iron Bottom Sound" has been at the top of my list for a very long time. The biggest barrier is that the resources nowadays for conducting deep technical dives in that area are very limited. Neil Yates is the local expert on the wrecks and he used to run [...]
Background This is a detailed report of my recent trip to Kea Island, Greece to dive the HMHS Britannic and the other great wrecks there. I will be posting detailed write-ups for each of the wrecks following this post. The goal is to provide enough details to aid anybody else planning to visit the island [...]
Intro / Background Hot on the heels of my Bikini Atoll trip, Tyler and I had a big adventure planned closer to home and this one was a long time in the making as well. A long time ago, I had read the first dive report on the USS Moray (SS-300) from 2012 and knew [...]
Intro This trip has been a long time coming. A really long time. A brief history of my journey to dive the historic wrecks in Bikini Atoll: Approx 2014/2015 : Read about the wrecks in Bikini Atoll and commit to myself to dive them Jan 2017 - Booked a trip to Bikini for Jul 2018 [...]
Photo Credit : Becky Kagan Schott Background I spent from Mar 11 - Mar 28, 2023 on a trip to Antarctica on board the M/V Hondius with Becky Kagan Schott from Liquid Productions and Faith Ortins from Blue Green Expeditions. I don't really believe in "bucket lists" but it was definitely a "trip of a [...]
As the saying goes, "when life gives you lemons, make lemonade." The Lemon As I wrote about in my previous post, the plan was to spend 4 days diving the amazing USS Oriskany aircraft carrier off the coast of Pensacola, Florida. I was going to be diving with Ben Lair and Justin Judd and we [...]
Intro I had already booked and paid for my March 2022 to trip to Palau when Aron Arngrimsson from The Dirty Dozen Expeditions reached out to me and said that they were organizing an inaugural expedition to Palau and asked if I wanted to go. I was having troubles getting wreck dives scheduled for my [...]
Background Malta was the third trip in my Spring/Summer trifecta (first was Palau in Mar/Apr and then second was Vis, Croatia in May). I was really looking forward to this trip. I had done quite a bit of research and started planning it about 6-9 months ago. I saw the videos and pictures of the [...]
Background This is a lengthy and detailed report of my recent trip to Vis, Croatia to dive some amazing wrecks. It includes information about travel, Covid, hotels, logistics, dining, etc. It is a long post but offers a lot of details for anybody else considering diving in Vis. Follow-on posts will concentrate on the wrecks [...]
Intro It has been a little over two years since my last big, international dive trip (Grand Cayman for a KISS Crossover Course and some deep wall diving in Feb 2020). I had originally planned to dive only wrecks in Palau but I have the opportunity to return in August for "once-in-a-lifetime" rebreather speciality wreck [...]
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