To top off my tour of grand North American fresh water diving that I wrote about recently, I headed from Northern Florida caves to Freeport, Grand Bahama Island. There, ocean conservationist, cave explorer and shark diving expert Cristina Zenato welcomed me to UNEXSO dive centre. In the week that followed I learned so much from […]

For my most recent trip, I picked some of the finest freshwater diving destinations in Canada and the United States. Ironically, I was diving in the dessert of Nevada, snowy Ontario and Florida Springs within the space of three weeks. Initially oblivious to the amazing quality of freshwater diving, I quickly realized that this was […]

My latest trip as the European Rolex Scholar opened the gates to the underworld. I travelled to Tulum, the Mecca of underwater caves on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. There, Lanny and Claire Vogel welcomed me at Underworld, a brand new and purpose built dive centre. Their place turned into the venue of Cave Camp, drawing together […]

Vancouver The next stop on my journey to the Pacific Northwest was Vancouver, where I visited the Vancouver Aquarium and Nuytco Research. The Vancouver Aquarium is one of the oldest in North America, pursuing education, conservation and research to further marine science for sixty years. Jeremy Heywood gave me a behind-the-scenes tour to this spectacular […]

Landing at Victoria International Airport, in the capital of British Columbia, felt like returning to my second home. It was at Pearson College, near Victoria, where I completed school and first learned how to scuba dive six years ago. On my recent trip to the Pacific Northwest I thus had the opportunity to revisit the […]