Technical Scuba Diving
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 [...]
Intro The Apogon (SS-308) seemed like a natural first post on the wrecks of Bikini Atoll after my initial overall Bikini Atoll Trip Report. I had recently dove and documented and built a photogrammetry model of another Balao-class submarine : the USS Moray which sunk during torpedo target practice in 1970 off San Clemente Island, [...]
Intro When we asked for permission / sponsorship from the Naval History & Heritage Command (NHHC) to dive the USS Moray, we indicated that our primary goal was to build a photogrammetry model. I knew it would take more than one dive to build a high-resolution model -- but I wasn't sure how many. The [...]
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 [...]
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