Intro This will be my fourth Top 10 Dive list since I started the tradition in 2020. I honestly thought I would never top 2022 which included wreck diving trips to Croatia & Malta and discovering numerous new wrecks here in Southern California. Happily, I was wrong. 🙂 I'll say it again this year: I [...]
Tag: IJN Sata
Close Call on the IJN Sata (Palau — 120 fsw)
Intro The lyrics from the Bob Dylan song All Along the Watchtower -- made famous by Jimi Hendrix -- echoed through my brain as I sat motionless and breathing slowly in between two other divers in a small, cramped, claustrophobic, dark, and completely silted out space deep within the IJN Sata wreck. "There must be [...]
DEMA 2023 Presentation | The Darkest Hours
I've been pretty busy and haven't posted much lately but I have a ton of updates I'll be working on getting posted. The first is a quick announcement that I will be co-presenting at the annual Dive Equipment & Marketing Association (DEMA) show this year in New Orleans. This presentation should be quite interesting.... The [...]
Trip Report : Palau Wrecks with The Dirty Dozen Expeditions (Aug 2022)
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 [...]