Oceans of Opportunity

Tag: #lifeaquatic

Classroom Under the Sea | Diving In

It’s rare that I take to any degree of advocacy for others’ projects – not because they aren’t worth supporting, but rather in the competitive little world we live in, it just gets harder and harder to stand out on your own, let alone when spreading the attention thin. In this case however, ‘Classroom Under…

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our counterpart, the sharks

On the eve of yet another ‘Shark Week‘, it goes without saying that our toothy counterparts deserve a bit of mention here on ‘A New Life’. I picked up the following graphic via Facebook, courtesy the Florida Museum of Natural History, which provides some useful data regarding the geographic distribution of shark attacks in recently…

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CNN the Sixties | the Space Race

While I’m not much of a television buff, I’ve been taken by CNN’s ‘The Sixties’, particularly the recent release of Episode 7: the Space Race. Two elements were particularly captivating: 1. The real ‘race’ in the effort with Russia, and the sense of American pride that was attached to various space program propaganda to drive…

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see ya latah, alligatah

Diving isn’t always pristine coral reefs, calm seas, and a relaxing day at the beach. In fact, most days – for those of us living the life aquatic – it’s anything but. From sewers to koi ponds, there are and forever will be the need for people to get down and dirty to unclog pipes,…

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extended range extensions

While it seems like only yesterday, the pursuit of ‘extended range diving’ as it was then defined about two decades ago was very basically understood as the technique used to dive just a bit deeper than conventional recreational diving. It meant strapping on a set of double cylinders, pushing the limits of using air as…

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another ‘S’ word – streamlining

There’s something inherent in diving, and technical diving in particular, that draws us to a degree of obsession about equipment. Even those who prefer the more organic aquatic intervention of freediving, particular attention is always paid to the best fitting suits, masks, and so on. In the end, we all rely on at least the most…

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Atlantis is Rising

Surely that post title caught your attention – and no, its not some propagandist hoax from the back of a tabloid. This is the real deal. The site, www.spiritscience.net recently released a piece describing 5 beautiful underwater cities – and these do indeed exist, or at least what remains of these cities that were once swallowed…

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6 months of decompression

With the blink of an eye, it had been six months since I had last been in the water. The last time I had been dry for that long was over a decade ago, but under very similar circumstances – that is taking the necessary time to incubate a new idea and take steps towards…

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the consumer machine, mass conformity, and a new lfie in the sea

My weekend started with a task not too foreign to me in recent years – filling a 10 yard dumpster outside of my middle-class suburban home as we get the ball rolling with a basement renovation project. I asked myself, yet again, “where does all the garbage go?” Now, I certainly do not pretend to have…

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a ‘flood’ of insight about our past, and our future

There are a few stories that make us all stop for  a moment and contemplate the realities of the world we live in. One of them is the flood, as in THE flood. Recent archaeological finds in Iraq revealed a cuneiform tablet that references what may likely be a 4000 year old version of the…

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