Often the unexpected places turn out to be my absolute favorite. In July I headed to Newfoundland, Canada to dive WWII wrecks with Ocean Quest Adventures. There was also snorkeling with humpback whales, kayaking and a cod was kissed. You can read the whole story in X-Ray Magazine.
Mexico
I was a diver for 17 years before I made it to Cozumel. Isn’t that crazy? I heard about how lovely it was for years and finally this summer I started a bit of a Mexico expedition there. Diving with Salty Endeavors I found the reef to be lovely and I liked the constant drift diving which made me feel like I was just lazily taking it all in. I also unknowingly got a photo of baby toadfish and now I will search for them always. My article is in the new X-Ray Magazine issue which you can download for free. Also check out the Contributor’s “Favorite Portraits” I have images of a turtle from Yap being cleaned by scarlet shrimp.
Next up was a few days in Isla Mujeres snorkeling with the whale sharks. The largest fish in the sea congregates in this area from June to September each year. Read how to do it over at Scuba Diving.
Then it was off to cave country where I fell in love with cavern diving and can’t wait to go back and get cave certified. Diver let me go on and on about mystical and mythical these underwater enchanted forests are. I can’t wait to go back.
I also recently did a little piece Truk Lagoon for Asian Pacific Boating Magazine. I still cannot wait to get back there to the M/V Odyssey.
Tech Diving in the Florida Keys
I’m so excited for a new article tech diving some of the Key Largo, Florida wrecks. You can read the whole article over at Scuba Diving Magazine.
I had the absolute pleasure of interviewing Bill and Nadine Beard about starting the dive industry in Costa Rica 50 years ago for the latest issue of DIVER. I think about some of the chaos I've experienced working in places like Chuuk or PNG currently and cannot even imagine the struggles (and amazing rewards) of showing up to a country where you have to bring your own dive tanks 50 years ago. Not to mention I've added more dives to my bucket list - diving during an eclipse and in a volcano crater lake. This was so much fun (and also challenging as I haven't really done many interviews in the past).
Download the whole issue (still available for free):
Galapagos
So excited my Galapagos article is in the June issue of DIVER and my encounter with Godzilla made the cover (okay, it’s really a marine lizard….but you must be able to see the resemblance!) You can download the issue for free here.
Meg Teeth
So this one time…diving for megalodon teeth…in South Carolina….
I managed to sneak in a little diving (if you can call 30ft with zero viz in a river diving)….
Read about it in the August UK Diver Magazine. Click for a free download here.
Dive Log Australasia is also letting readers download the latest issues for free, I have a piece on Truk Lagoon in the August issue.
I have spent the past five years making a yearly pilgrimage to Roatan, Honduras for the Roatan Underwater Photo Fest and there’s something special about returning to a place over and over again. I wrote about it in this month’s UK Diver. You can download this issue for free and find lots of other great stories in it as well.
Roatan
Returning to Roatan in UK Diver, underwater photo techniques at Moziak Underwater Housings, Truk Lagoon on Youtube, Raja Ampat in Australian Dive Log.
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