South Pacific

After our first trip to Antarctica in 2016 the continent kept calling to us. Before COVID we gave in and booked an adventure different from our first. While our 2016 trip was purely to the Antarctic peninsula and early in the season this trip was to be at the very end of the season and … Read more

At the 2018 Long Beach SCUBA show we always enter in most drawings for giveaways. This time one hit and I won a week long dive trip on the French Polynesia Master live aboard courtesy of the Bluewater Dive Travel booth. Given we had a week on the boat but it was a long journey … Read more

I was able to do a repeat of the CCR only trip diving Galapagos that I enjoyed in 2013. As always it was awesome! Jorge Mahauad, owner of Galapagos Rebreathers, and Andy Philips put on a great trip. We had tremendous hammerhead and whale shark action including a massive pregnant female on a 360 fly by during … Read more

If you haven’t guessed we love animals and the bigger and/or more exotic the better! So swimming with humpback whales and their newborns was high on the to-do list. There are two primary places to do this in the world, the silver banks north of The Dominican Republic and The Kingdom of Tonga in the … Read more

Many people no longer remember the events of 1946 in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. At the time it was big news, so big in fact that a fashion designer who created a new bathing suit for women named that new creation the bikini because the name … Read more