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 […]

After some great cold-water diving in Reykjavík, I flew to England to pack my rebreather and then took the train and ferry up to the Shetlands. There, Bob Anderson hosted me on the MV Halton, one of the only liveaboards to offer dive charters around Scotland’s northernmost islands. The diving continued the trend of fascinating […]

After the wildlife-cruise to Greenland’s east and west coast, I stopped-over on Iceland to dive the world’s most famous freshwater dive site: Silfra. This geological fissure lies at the margin between the European and North American continental plates.  This is among the most exhilarating  places I have dived in my life thus far, not only […]

At the beginning of last month, I spent two weeks with Lindblad Expeditions on-board the National Geographic Explorer. We voyaged from Iceland to the wild east of Greenland, and then hugged the coast to the more populated west of the world’s largest island. I struggle to capture the beauty of Greenland in words, the landscape, […]