Category: the Life Aquatic | an Evolution
diving is like riding a bike…and falling off
While I’ve been good about maintaining a proficiency regimen for various diving skills and technical equipment, I have not spent much time actually working underwater since my role shifted into program development for recent #exosuitproject efforts. This has been a challenge for me, as I went from literally spending every day underwater for numerous years…
Read MoreNASA’s Ocean Worlds Exploration Program
News of a recent NASA proposed budget to the House Appropriations Committee crossed my desk just this week, and while the vision is exciting, I’m somewhat disturbed. The punchline of the proposed Ocean Worlds Exploration Program includes ambitious life-seeking missions to the watery worlds of Europa, Enceladus, and Titan, with program development tipping well over the…
Read Morethe chronic tinkering disease
Well, I played hookie this Monday morning and went for a dive. Guilty? Heck no…I call it good strategy in that I worked through the weekend so was due for a break and skipped the weekend dive site crowds in favor of the very still and quiet Monday morning. Not a soul in sight. For…
Read Moreglobal warming – at least in Antarctica
I never thought I would read this headline…63 degrees in Antarctica. Meanwhile here in Rhode Island I woke up to the twenties…still (ugghh). Despite all the griping and groaning about ‘global warming’ which has been hard to swallow given the winter we’ve had here in New England, it is certainly fair to say that ‘climate…
Read MoreLiving Small
Flipping through Netflix for a Saturday night distraction we came upon the movie ‘Tiny: a story about living small‘. The film chronicles the journey of building a ‘tiny house‘ of not much more than 100 square feet as a permanent residence. I’ve been aware of this tiny house movement over the past several years, so…
Read Morethe best of both worlds
Gotta love it – the plan to dive the methane seas of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon – in 2040 nonetheless. That’s right around the corner in space exploration years! Despite being in a bit of a science funding slump in recent years, it seems sights are being set on some very bold horizons; manned missions…
Read Moreout of sight, but definitely on my mind
Hmm…every once in a while a news piece shines some light through the darkness that seems to prevail these days and, if nothing else, makes you think about the ever so important big picture. The recent report of fisherman taking up what may be a 200,000 year old hominid jaw bone (from a potentially new…
Read MoreMaslow revisited
Some 15 years ago I was entrenched in studies to become a diving instructor when introduced to ‘Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs‘ by the individual teaching my course. Having just been ever so briefly introduced to this theory, its implications didn’t quite register. I did get the take home message of the day, which was that…
Read More“the poor have it easy”
I’ve had my nose to the ground for all of 2014, and no sooner do I look up to check my direction when 2015 makes its splash. Where did the year go? As I reflect back on what my peers have suggested was an incredibly successful 2014, despite my being a bit hypercritical of ‘progress’,…
Read MoreNow here’s some news…
This excites me and gives me hope for a future life aquatic – Bruce Cantrell and Jessica Fain just recently surfaced from a record-breaking 73 day stay underwater at Jules Undersea Lodge in the Florida Keys. The mission marked an ambitious effort to reach out, engage, and educate, all from an alien world that rests…
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