My First Cavern Dive : )

We started off the day finishing up a few final things that need cleaning. When we were done Josh Boz  and I went out for lunch. I then sadly started packing up all my cloths and dive gear.   I didn’t remember bringing this much stuff. That night Amy’s parents came home and we celebrated her…

I went to visit Mike and Fred at Backscatter in New Hampshire.  They showed me how to set up the camera systems used by the Sea Rovers Intern.  There is a GoPro system and a still camera set up for me to use during my summer as the intern. Fred also showed me how to…

We started to clean up Amy’s parents house where we have been staying because they are  coming home soon. Our goal is to have the house spotless, not an easy chore to say the least. Next we packed up Terence’s truck with all of our dive gear because he is going to bring it all…

Aug 9-10th The last few days of my internship this summer have been spent in Massachusetts working with Eric Takakjian and NOAA. Eric owns his own business, Quest Marine Services, which does everything form oceanographic surveying to building unique equipment. I learned this part first hand when I helped Eric with his project to build…

On Monday I met Vin in Quincy at 8am to assist him with some private work he was doing for Batelle. Batelle is a large, private engineering company who, in this case, was working for NOAA doing buoy maintenance. The specific buoy we worked on can actual be found here! Basically our job was to  dive on an…

‘Twas the fourth day in Panama, and already a distinct routine had set in place. I arose to the (now expected) 630 knocking on the door, signaling PT time with Terrence–there’s nothing like working out with a former Navy SEAL to give perspective on how out of shape you are. After the vigorous workout, we…