My First Cavern Dive : )

I was on a plane and on my way to Costa Rica. I had been sponsored aboard the Undersea Hunter group’s dive live-aboard, the Sea Hunter, to Cocos Island by Steve Drogin and Ernie Brooks. After the 36-hour trip to the island was complete, we woke up early the next morning and immediately hit the…

After I got back from the Shootout, Sea Rovers Dave Caldwell and his wife Heather Knowles invited me to join their charter boat, the Gauntlet, to dive the famous Chester Poling wreck on the Fourth of July! I drove up to Beverly bright and early to meet Dave, Heather, and the rest of the folks…

I started my summer working for Rick Simon. The first day I was there Rick and his crew took me out to inspect morings at the Noank shipyard. I found it very exciting at the time since it was a door opening for new opportunities. My second day with Shoreline I helped pull props off…

As the Wildkat pulled up to the mooring on the Sport I was very surprised, I could see the wreck from the surface. It was amazing that while looking up from the bottom I could see Jim and Pat’s boat. I got the overwhelming urge to call my father and joke about the horrible visibility…

On Wednesday we departed at about 8 o’clock for the National Archives Northeast Reagion, which is located in Waltham. This is about an hour’s drive from Farihaven, so on the ride over, Eric described our objective. The plan was to search for evidence supporting the tentative naming of an unidentified shipwreck. The steam lighter that…

After getting sick so much on the boat dives I decided to do shore diving through the rest of the week. The shore diving was just as amazing as the reefs we went to on the boat, and I had more time to spend with the marine life without worrying about getting back to the…