The Red Sea, calm, beautiful, tranquil….? Well, the calm and beautiful aspect was not exactly true for the first journey out of Hurghada aboard the MY Whirlwind. My cabin was at the front of the liveaboard and at 3 am in the morning, as the captain set off for the first crossing of the Gulf of […]
Category: Scholar Journeys
A Jam-packed June; Regs, Cameras & Deep Sea Science
I like to live by the phrase “Fail to prepare, prepare to fail”. It describes quite well how I prefer to be well organised and not get caught off guard. I’ve developed a tentative plan for the first few months of the scholarship, which should prepare me for the year of adventure ahead. The first […]
Floating in the Ambience
Opening the delivery box, I’m faced with the yellow shell of a complex looking machine, the AP evolution rebreather unit. This was to be my first challenge of the scholarship, learning how to dive again. The difference between closed circuit rebreathers and the more commonly used open circuit set up is that exhaled air in […]
Memoires of a Mermaid
South Atlantic Environmental Baseline Survey
From Florida, I headed to the Falklands, the furthest south and possibly remotest place that I have travelled to so far. The landscape across the islands is reminiscent of the Scottish Lowlands and Highlands. However, the underwater life is as different as a cold-temperate environment could be. There is a wild mix of species […]