Technical Scuba Diving
I will be presenting the keynote at the 55th Annual California Wreck Divers Banquet on 16 May 2026 at Dive 'N Surf in Redondo Beach. I presented two years ago and it was a lot of fun and camaraderie. The topic this year will be "Southern California Tales of Mystery & Aviation" which will cover [...]
I have been included in the speaker line-up at the Long Beach Scuba Show. Details of my presentation date/time and some information are: Sunday, May 31 11:30am - 12:15pm My presentation will be about some of the Southern California airplane wreck mysteries that we recently uncovered (mistaken wreck identities!) while writing my upcoming book. I [...]
I have been asked many times "when are you going to write a book?" I was gently prodded in December 2024 when my wonderful wife "published" a book with some of my diving trips and pictures and gifted it to me as a Christmas present. I've been thinking about what would make a book that [...]
We have a new find! No, it isn't that USS Griswold (DE-7)! This is our very own Griswold (named after Clark Griswold) and not the USS Griswold. He was Launched (born) on 23 Dec 2024 and Commissioned (we took him home) on 7 Mar 2025 and he had a Displacement (weighed) about nine pounds when [...]
Many people have encouraged me to write a book about my wreck diving adventures. I think about it occasionally but haven't committed to it (yet). My wife, for Christmas this year, gave me what is the most thoughtful gift I can imagine : a custom one-of-a-kind book with my dive adventures chronicled! With an amazing [...]
Intro When Covid hit, I started doing a lot of scuba diving locally and met up with Tyler Stalter. We both shared a passion for wreck diving and finding new wrecks. For the past 4 years, we have had a great partnership and have scoured the Southern California coast and found many new wrecks (and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
There is a new wreck in Malta -- the HMS Covid. It sailed into port and "wrecked" my trip. Covid Test Results - 24 June I woke up yesterday morning not feeling quite right but did two deep-ish dives. They went well but I did notice myself breathing harder than usual (not to the point [...]
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