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Conquering the Abyss
‘Spooky’ is the word to describe my forays into the deep, and ‘flattered’ would be the word to describe my reaction to this great News Desk piece released by National Geographic. Curiously, I often ponder the realization that it’s been 40 years since Walter Starck used his first ‘Electrolung’ off the deep reefs of Andros.…
Read Moreone small step for man – 8 years earlier
I wouldn’t have thought twice about today being any more significant than yesterday, though thanks to Google I was reminded otherwise. Today is an incredibly significant day in fact – marking the 50th anniversary of mankind’s first steps beyond Planet Earth. Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin left our atmosphere on April 12, 1961. The event has likely…
Read Morecarbon dioxide and sofnolime | the necessary evil
Well, we’re just weeks away from setting out to uncharted waters yet again as we continue our explorations ‘in Bahama deep’. This next expedition will focus on Exuma Sound, where much like the Tongue of the Ocean on Andros, the Sound is a deep flanking margin dropping precipitously from the shallows to depths of several…
Read Moreon budget crises, and gettin’ $#!T done
I’m generally incredibly hesitant to talk politics here on ‘a New Life’, but we are in a time and space where not one single person in this country can take for granted that the US is a great place to live and everything will be just fine…unfortunately we are as prone to the realities of life, injustice,…
Read Moreswim like a fish, eat like a pig, sleep like a rock
‘Sixty-four’ (64) is the number of hours I spent underwater in the month of March 2011. Sounds like a lot – and it is – but it represents normalcy for many of us involved with inshore marine construction. Here in New England, January and February are traditionally on the slow side given weather delays, and…
Read Moreplan your dive, dive your plan
From the seemingly simple, to utterly complex of underwater operations, the statement ‘plan your dive, dive your plan’ offers a critical piece of advice. In the early days, I was taught about the 7 P’s – Proper Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance – and that has proved true time and time again. Most of…
Read Morea bit more pressure
While the winter has been quite productive despite the convention of a seasonal low in contract diving, the recent break in the weather has ramped things up significantly. More work means more and more time underwater, and ‘under pressure‘. I’ve written about pressure numerous times before, and the topic is certain to continually surface as we continue on…
Read Moreso, they say Atlantis has been found
Now this is not an everyday headline by any means. MSNBC recently released a piece highlighting University of Hartford’s Richard Freund’s work in Spain, which claims to have uncovered the Lost City of Atlantis. According to Freund, his team has discovered remnants of an ancient city some 60 miles inland from the coast that would…
Read MoreThe Pacific Rim | the Ring is under Fire
Sounds like a scary place, and after the events of last night and this morning, it unarguably is. This morning I woke up to the news being flooded with information about a massive 8.9 magnitude earthquake that devastatingly struck Japan. Following the quake, a 30 foot wall of water ripped through the country, washing away…
Read MoreBoston Sea Rovers | March 5 & 6
For those of you in the Boston area, I will be presenting the exciting results of our 2010 ‘in TOTO deep’ expedition at the Boston Sea Rovers clinic on March 5th at 11AM. This expedition is one in a series that focuses on ‘mesophotic coral ecosystems’, or MCEs. The term mesophotic, or middle/medium light, refers…
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