Tag: Rhode Island
Dive #4000 this Sidemount Saturday
My technical beach excursions have gained some attention the last few weeks, and I suppose with reasons to be understood as I schlep a diver propulsion vehicle and a few sidemount bottles to the beach of our most popular local dive site where openwater training is the norm. Over the winter, I had the place…
Read MoreA Big Splash in the Ocean State
Yesterday’s news of a humpback while sighting well within the margins of Narragansett Bay is certainly news- and noteworthy. It seems that there have been more and more of these big splashes and sightings in recent years here in the Ocean State, and that’s a great thing. Last year, there were the beluga whales. The…
Read Moresidemount saturday
Well, it’s officially that time of year again – chilly up top and still balmy down below, at least from the New England perspective. That means ever improving visibility as the water temp continues to drop, and time to hit the beach for a next round of ambitious extended range runs. On Saturday, I broke…
Read More6 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…
Read MoreExpedition Announced | first Exosuit ADS mission for science @oceanopp #exosuitproject
Correction: this mission has been reschedule for summer 2015 following technical difficulties in 2014. Stay tuned! The first scientific exploration mission utilizing the Exosuit ADS is taking place this summer (2014), approximately 100 miles off of the Rhode Island Coast at a location called the Canyons, while working in the mesopelagic environment (depths of 200…
Read MoreExpedition Announced | First Mission for Exosuit ADS @amnh @oceanopp #exosuitproject
Correction: this mission has been rescheduled for summer 2015 following technical difficulties in 2014. Stay tuned! The first scientific exploration mission utilizing the Exosuit ADS is taking place this summer (2014), approximately 100 miles off of the Rhode Island Coast at a location called the Canyons, while working in the mesopelagic environment (depths of 200…
Read Moreit’s a ‘sign’
I can’t even begin to recount the innumerable times I’ve been reassured of my direction with ‘signs’. Now of course, it could all very well be pure circumstance, or manifestations of our own psychology in drawing connections between what is immediately in focus with the space around you in some deep effort to attain self-satisfaction…
Read Moreanother birthday
Another birthday. It is certainly funny how time passes, and of how our perception of time passing changes through various stages of life. Some birthdays are highly anticipated with excitement (turning 18 or 21 for example), and others can be a blow to morale (40, 70, etc). In the end, it seems as though celebrating a birthday…
Read Morethe lion’s mane
Just as the excitement of milder, but stll very clear, New England waters kickstarts the spring diving season (yes, finally wet suit time!), we’re faced with yet another hazard – lion’s mane jellyfish. Over a decade ago, I believe in 1999 or 2000, Rhode Island waters were heavily infested with these jellies. They were here by…
Read MoreReflections on the Narragansett Bay Bottom
Springtime here in the Ocean State means getting ready for the busy boating season. As a marine contractor, part of that includes servicing moorings. I’ve been diving on moorings for more than 15 years at this point. It can be a monotonous task, with upwards of twenty ups and downs made every day, though of…
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