When it comes to teamwork there is a point of diminishing returns. While I was organizing dives at the Aquarium I tried to keep the teams...

I talk a lot of shit. Most instructors do. Most divers do. Hell, I suppose most all people do. We all find our little corner of the world...

Same ocean diving. That is frequently what I feel up against for the first few days of technical classes, the fact that very nearly...

I have been thinking about a conversation I had with a friend some years ago. Before becoming a marine biologist he had spent many years...

Galileo. Chapman. Caravaggio. Mapplethorpe. Einstein. Rushdie. Persecuted geniuses. We'd all like to think we're geniuses; that we...

**Reprinted from The Dive Bum 1/16/17** “Usually we don't do this dive with students.” “Just stick with me.  You'll be fine.” “Now, I...