Technical Scuba Diving
On a whim, I entered the Marissa 2020 Photo Contest and I recently found out that I was the runner-up! https://www.facebook.com/MarissaCharters/photos/a.230572168441/10159356247963442/ I submitted three photos to the contest: Tyler @ Corsair Engine TBM Avenger USS Hogan Drew Wilson, who I've done a lot of diving with in the past year, won the contest (Congrats, Drew!). [...]
In my mind, the Corsair is one of the "symbols" of US air supremacy in WW2. It is a beautiful airplane that struck a balance between power, weight, maneuverability, east of maintenance, etc. The pilot sits very far back in the plane behind the engine, wings and a large fuel tank and so it has [...]
I stand on the shoulders of giants. Tyler and I were in search of new dive sites. Our first dive of the day on an unknown site ended up being some kind of barge. We had two other targets to investigate that day and spent some time metering both. Tyler felt one was better so [...]
Tyler and I dove a cool Corsair wreck last week (I'll post photos & the story soon) and I didn't shoot pictures for a photogrammetry model but figured I had enough of them to see what it would look like if I massaged them and put them into the software. It worked out pretty well! [...]
UPDATE: Tyler and I were apparently witnessing a scorpionfish orgy of epic proportions and I need to update my LinkedIn profile to include experience as a "fish porn" director. 🙂 I've had a couple different people say that these fish are known to congregate and mate during specific seasons but this is apparently a very [...]
After diving the USS Hogan, we decided to investigate a potential new site that Tyler had coordinates for. The depth sonar showed a blip so Tyler put on his doubles for a quick look. It turns out it was a large "mushroom" anchor. Oh well. We then motored to a site where a Corsair was [...]
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