My Adventures

I have started this blog to showcase some of photography from my dive trips and other excursions around the globe. I wanted to also share some of the stories about these trips and whatever else I decide to write up here. Feel free to comment however spamming and inappropriate posts will not be tolerated. Most of the picture and videos here were shot with standard point and shoot digital cameras, would love to get a SLR and underwater kit, but just don’t have $5000 – $7000 laying around to get the camera, housing, and lights. Maybe someday. My current camera I use underwater is a Canon PowerShot A630 with the matching Canon Housing rated to 140 FSW. Almost all of the pictures were taken by me personally, however there a some from friends that were on the same trips.

I started diving in 2004 through my local dive shop, “The Scuba Center”. I quickly fell in love with the sport and obtained as many training courses and certifications as I financially could .  I got the Advanced Open Water, Wreck Diving, Nitrox, Stress and Rescue, Deep Diving, Navigation, Night and Limited Visibility Diving, Boat Diving, Search and Recovery,Master Diver, Extended Range Diver, and Decompression Procedures Diver.

I love all types of Scuba Diving but my passion is Wreck Diving.  I have dove many times on dozens of wrecks around the eastern United States and throughout the Caribbean. Unfortunately I do not have too many pictures of the Wreck Diving as there is too much safety to be concerned with and the Camera is not on my top priorities list on those dives.  Task management and survival are the top concerns.   When diving in any overhead environment there are numerous risks involved that can cost you your life if you do not do it properly with the proper training and gear.  I have “Silted” myself out on only once on a wreck and hope never to do it again because no matter how comfortable you are diving, when you cannot see where you are, it is very scary.  In my one incident I had a momentary feeling of falling (even though i was perfectly neutral in bouyancy) and reached out to grab what looked like a crusty old pipe on the ships bulkhead only to reach into a cylindrical pile of silt as fine as talcum powder.  Within seconds I could not see my hands in front of my mask.  Fortunatly, I had run a wreck reel line, but did not want to go back yet, I also did not turn or spazz out, I just froze where I was and new that straight ahead in approx 20ft was the door out of that room.  I slowly headed in that direction and a few minutes later I could see light down at the end of the corridor. I you have never dove before it would be hard to understand why what seems like a simple task is so difficult and unerving, so think of it like this;  You are floating in Zero Gravity and its pitch black, which way is up, down, forward, or backwards, it is almost impossible to tell, so if you heading in what you think is the up direction, you may just as well be going down, you senses just cannot tell.  We use visual cues to tell what positions our bodies are in along with your inner ear balance, but all of that is thrown out of whack when you and floating in darkness.  So that little story being told is a warning to all prospective divers, get the proper training and paractice before attempting any penetrations into overhead or cave environments because that training may very well be what keeps you alive when you are in a stressful situation .