My First Cavern Dive : )

I had the opportunity to do a day of fun diving with Ricky on Saturday July 6th. We met at Cape Ann Divers in Gloucester at 7am and headed out on the water shortly thereafter. Our first dive was on the Chester Polling. The polling is a beautiful wreck whose deck sits in about 80-90ft…

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…

6/15/11 Another bright and early day, but that was fine with me! Today I got to do all of my cavern dives! Steve, our instructor, and I met at Blue Spring (my favorite spring that we worked at with the Cambrian Foundation). Once we got there we walked around and did a site check, then…

My DUI drysuit came in handy again today as the male members of the Frank Scalli Interns — Rick Simon, Ryan Hunter, and myself — met up at Cape Ann Divers to dive one of the most popular Gloucester wrecks, the Chester Polling. We were the only divers that day, so we had the entire…

I flew in from England on Thursday night before the weekend  of the Sea Rovers Conference.  I got up early for the COMS (Career Opportunities in Marine Science) day.  I really enjoyed the broad variety of speakers at this event.  I was always interested in marine biology as a child, and the school groups that…

Sea Rover Dave Caldwell works at the Harborcenter in Beverly, Massachusetts, and graciously invited me to come in to work with him for a few days! I learned that on top of enforcing harbor regulations and managing boat traffic, Harbormasters respond to all kinds of emergencies on the water as well. Thankfully, both my days…