My First Cavern Dive : )

A group of graduate students from University of Rhode Island invented a neat new device, a forward mapping sonar system named Farsounder, and have hired Captain Lori for the past several months to test their invention in the harbor. I went out with the three inventors, Matt, Matt, and Evan, along with Captain Lori and…

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…

My next training was at East Coast Divers with Sea Rovers Nick Fazah, Kim Malkoski, and Zach Wahlen, doing my perfect buoyancy class. I learned about changes in buoyancy and how to control it through an entire dive. I had a blast practicing in the pool with free divers and other divers crowding the pool…

To complete my deep dive training I was helped by the dive shop instructor at Coco View. One morning we went out on a shore dive snorkeled out past the Prince Albert and dropped down to 70 fsw, swam along Newman’s wall down to the the edge of the wall which was exactly 103 fsw….

Another spot that I dove at was middle reef. I only did one dive at middle reef for a few reasons. I had trouble finding really good subjects I wanted to shoot and because I kept getting lost in the kelp. I would follow my compass then look up and realize I was needed to…

Before I knew it Amy and Paul where over cooking brekfast for every one. We were all having a good time then 10 a.m. rolled around and I had to leave. It was sad, I had a lot of fun over the last 2 weeks the Cambrian Foundation gang are great people and I know…