Technical Scuba Diving
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 [...]
Background One of my favorite rectilinear lenses for underwater wreck photos is the Tamron 17-28mm. It isn't that I don't like fisheye lenses, but for wreck photography (which is 90+% of my photos) I really prefer the straight lines from a rectilinear lens. Given the outside diameter of the Tamron 10-17 lens and the N100 [...]
Introduction First, no, we didn't dive this wreck -- it is just a bit too deep 🙂 The Orca Maritime team found this Skyradier wreck while searching for the XP5Y for the Expedition Unknown Series 12 Episode 8 TV show we filmed a couple years ago. It is briefly shown & discussed during the episode. [...]
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 [...]
Intro After spending four days diving in the MJ cave, we headed to a nearby mine to do a couple dives. I think it was Ben Lair that said something like "a mine is like what would happen if a cave dive and a wreck dive had a baby." 🙂 I'd say I have to [...]
Intro As I mentioned in my overall Trip Report, I don't consider myself a cave diver but I do enjoy diving them occasionally and find the geological history and the underwater formations of different caves in different regions very interesting. We spent four days diving the " MJ" Cave and did a total of 5 [...]
Background Quite a few years ago, I posted about the DIY dual cam band brackets that I had acquired through Mike Hall. I've had numerous people reach out to me to get more details and to build their own version of these. The last time this happened, the person offered to build me a new [...]
Background I sometimes dive caves but I'm not what I would consider a "cave diver." I have plenty of friends who are "real" cave divers so I know enough to know the difference. 🙂 This trip was a bit different from my typical dive trips where it is diving all day, every day. I had [...]
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 This will be my fifth "Top 10 Dive & Project" list since I started the tradition in 2020. I don't think I will ever top 2023 which included diving in some of the most remote places on the planet (Antartica and Bikini Atoll) and also the pinnacle of wreck diving, the HMHS Britannic. However, [...]
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