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A New Life on FOG!
I am pleased to announce that relevant content from here at ‘A New life in the Sea’ will be published on Stefan Blitz’s www.forcesofgeek.com. As of mid-May, as I review pop culture entertainment, the latest widgets and innovations,conspiracies, new models, and theories related to ocean intervention, the material will be shared with the team at…
Read MoreBahama Blue Holes lecture tonight!
I will be offering a lecture inclusive of slides and video about the Blue Holes of the Bahamas 8PM tonight at Broadway Divers Dive Club that meets at Swim and Scuba, 490 Sunrise Highway, Rockville Centre, NY (about 15 mins from Kennedy Airport). All are welcome to come by to learn more about Broadway Divers,…
Read MoreLEGOLAND® underwater record
G’day mate”…Australian Explorer Lloyd Godson is at it again, making waves in the realm of undersea habitation. In the past 50 or so years since the concept was really addressed from a practical standpoint, Lloyd is among the very few who have taken the incremental approach to ‘living on the edge’ and bringing it to…
Read MoreRegister for National Environmental Education Week!
Ocean Opportunity is please to support and take part in National Environmental Education Week (EE Week), the nation’s largest environmental education event held April 11-17, 2010. EE Week inspires environmental learning and stewardship among K-12 students. EE Week connects educators with environmental resources to promote K-12 students’ understanding of the environment. EE Week is a…
Read Morewhen water bites back
April showers bring May flowers, and floods… Back at home in Rhode Island, the last two days of torrential downpours, coupled with an unusually high water table have caused flooding conditions around the State. RI has been declared to be in a state of emergency, with a significant number of schools, public works and services,…
Read Morehuman journey
This is a borrowed video post from Alex Michael Bonnici, a colleague from the Discovery Enterprise… What particularly caught my attention was the Herman Melville quote from ‘Moby Dick’, “I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote”. This itch is one that cannot be scratched to relief… The torment is what continues to…
Read Morestrong in the water
Perhaps the single most gratifying element of my career in diving is the constant renewed focus and situational awareness refinement; and it doesn’t take much to be reminded of just how important focus and situational awareness are when working in the underwater world Having just returned to the water after a six week medical leave,…
Read MoreMap It! Digital Mapping Resources for the Classroom
This morning, I partook in an interesting professional development workshop entitled ‘Map it! Digital Mapping Resources for the Classroom’, which was put on by Lynn Malone and the Rhode Island Geographic Education Alliance. The program’s participants included teachers of all grade levels, computer resource educators, and non-profit program managers. Topics covered included a wide variety…
Read Morethe Dream Rocket
The Dream Rocket aims to connect art and education through a global collaborative initiative. It will inspire participants to consider, express, and explore their dreams for a better future using Dream Themes such as Energy, Space, Peace, Science, Recycling, etc. This global arts and sciences initiative will be memorialized by wrapping the Saturn V Rocket…
Read MoreRebreather Workshop Proceedings | on DVD
On January 23rd, I organized the ‘2010 Northeast Rebreather & Advanced Diving Technology Workshop’, which was hosted at the University of Rhode Island. The reasons for doing so were partly personal interest, and mostly because we are at a marquee time in advancing human intervention of the sea. In my introductory remarks, I refer to…
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