Technical Scuba Diving
Background We are relatively confident that we have located and identified the wreck of the Mercator in Santa Monica Bay. At this point, we believe that we are the first people to dive and identify the wreck. After I did an initial dive to investigate and document the wreck and a second dive with Tyler [...]
Background It was my second dive of the day aboard the Sundiver Express with Kyaa (more on the first dive -- which will be a whopper -- in another post). I had heard about the "Rigger 1" or "Rigger" or "Rigger One" a few times but didn't really know much about it so I wasn't [...]
Intro / The Crash I'm not sure what string of expletives test pilot Leo J. "Pete" Colapietro yelled when he bailed out of his F4D at 650mph over the ocean -- but I do know what he said from his hospital bed during his recovery: "It was one climax after another, after that." Leo J. [...]
