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Trapped Under the Sea | a review

With my recent travel schedules I’ve managed to do some much needed catch up  on my reading list, and just turned the last page of Neil Swidey’s ‘Trapped Under the Sea’. The book recounts the tragic event involving the loss of two divers during the Deer Island outfall tunnel project in Boston several years ago.…

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the chronic tinkering disease

Well, I played hookie this Monday morning and went for a dive. Guilty? Heck no…I call it good strategy in that I worked through the weekend so was due for a break and skipped the weekend dive site crowds in favor of the very still and quiet Monday morning. Not a soul in sight. For…

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saved by slivers of a cent

For sanity’s sake and practice of good form, I’ve been doing my absolute best to commit a half a day each weekend to going diving. Call it ‘my time’ to decompress from terra firma while striving to maintain all of the acute senses and perceptions that are needed to push this life aquatic just a…

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beneath city streets

I found it rather fitting today to find myself fielding emails about celebrating Earth Day using an iPhone and while doing ‘fieldwork’ in the heart of the city of Boston. I was forced to find some appreciation of the gray and brown, rather than green, and came to realize that he world around us is…

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Waves from Atlantis

For unknown reasons, waves from the Atlantis story have been crashing on my desk the last few days. First, a colleague forwarded me an excerpt from Mark Adams recent book ‘Meet me in Atlantis‘ describing an interview with Greek geophysicist and Atlantean expert Stavros Papamarinopoulos which shed light on a few rather matter of fact…

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global warming – at least in Antarctica

I never thought I would read this headline…63 degrees in Antarctica. Meanwhile here in Rhode Island I woke up to the twenties…still (ugghh). Despite all the griping and groaning about ‘global warming’ which has been hard to swallow given the winter we’ve had here in New England, it is certainly fair to say that ‘climate…

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Living Small

Flipping through Netflix for a Saturday night distraction we came upon the movie ‘Tiny: a story about living small‘. The film chronicles the journey of building a ‘tiny house‘ of not much more than 100 square feet as a permanent residence. I’ve been aware of this tiny house movement over the past several years, so…

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Exploring the Titanic of the Ancient World | History | Smithsonian

Thank you Smithsonian Magazine for highlighting our #exosuitproject at #Antikythera last fall. History itself marks the repeat cycle of time, and it is the cycle of time, perhaps, that has kept our focus on and at #Antikythera. Much more work to be done, and secrets will be unveiled… read the article. Donate today using Google…

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the best of both worlds

Gotta love it – the plan to dive the methane seas of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon – in 2040 nonetheless. That’s right around the corner in space exploration years! Despite being in a bit of a science funding slump in recent years, it seems sights are being set on some very bold horizons; manned missions…

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sunday; snowy sunday…

Talk about the woes of winter – this one can’t come to an end soon enough. With seemingly every weekend being buried with snow, there hasn’t been much time freed up to stay on top of proficiency dives and new experimental techniques which had been the weekend norm for about the last year. This has…

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