2015 Highlights
One of my favorite shows as a child was the Time Tunnel, in which a pop art striped black and white time » Read more
Underwater
Indonesia’s Forgotten Islands, November 2015: Part 4 (Banda Sea)
Part 4: Banda Sea Saturday, November 7, 2015 Pulau Bui Despite an exceptionally smooth crossing overnight, staying up late AND a gin » Read more
Forgotten Indonesia: November 2015 (Part 3, Triton Bay)
Saturday, October 31, 2015: Pisang Island, Maluku Earlier in the trip, it seemed not at all certain we would make it here. » Read more
Indonesia’s Forgotten Islands: November 2015 (Part 2: Misool)
Monday, October 26-Tuesday, October 27, 2015 Part 2: Misool Most dive trips begin with a fitful mess of lurches and starts, and » Read more
Cuban Crisis: Reflections (Epilogue); July 2015
Cuba continues to reverberate in our thoughts, months after returning to our comfortable cocoon. The embassy reopened while we were underwater, and » Read more
Scuba in Cuba, July 2015: Jardines de la Reina (Part 3)
Saturday, July 18, 2015 Getting to our dive destination was a long wearying travel day, in which we crossed from the north » Read more
Farallons Fiasco
Years ago, I was tightly circled in the water by a great white shark. Repeatedly. I have this on good authority, as » Read more
A wonderful blur: 2014 highlights
We’re not superstitious, but 2013 was not a good year for us, being deeply marked by the deaths of both of Steve’s » Read more
White sharks: Guadalupe Island, Mexico
Rolling, rolling, our boat, the Horizon, tosses us from side to side as though possessed as it plows its way southwest from » Read more
Raja Redux: April 2014
Packing for a dive trip is WORK. Every trip, we make firm resolutions not to procrastinate. We start accumulating piles in the » Read more