When someone asks you “What do you do for a living” and your response is “I’m a commercial diver” the odds of getting a blank stare are about 9 out of 10 times. That being said, it makes a great conversation starter on a first date! So what is commercial …
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by Rebecca Ziegler It’s almost ten years ago that I woke up at four in the morning, tossed my dive gear in the back of my dad’s car, and headed to the marina in Long Beach to hop aboard the boat that would take us to our check-out dives at …
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by Alexandra Rose of BlueRing.blue Getting ready to travel to the most remote atoll in the world, I thought I knew what to expect. On calm seas, Clipperton is a 96-hour commute from land. It is a ring-shaped coral reef formed by an extinct volcano with a lagoon in the …
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Have you ever had a debilitating case of post-adventure come-down, departure depression, or as I’ve started calling it, the “Being Back Blues”? I got back from an amazing trip to Guatemala a few days ago and thanks to a dodgy helping of aeroplane grub I’ve been in bed ever since …
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Do you keep drifting off at work to dream about far-off places, adventures yet to be had, and friends just waiting to be met? Me too. And as I’ve been doing so, articles form a continuous, tantalizing stream across my screen depicting the myriad of places in this world just …
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You’ve got a passion for the outdoors. You love animals. You like getting your hands dirty and appreciate physical exercise. You have a driver’s license. If these things sound like some kind of job requirements, they might well be. There definitely are jobs that involve these characteristics and skills. But …
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I’ve experienced a lot of things, but every now and again an opportunity comes along that makes me sit up – or rather, jump up and down while going “squeeee!” – and take notice. As happened when my dear friend Kerry from Over and Above Africa invited me on a …
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One of my favorite places in the entire world is Mount Rainier National Park (MORA). I was fortunate to receive an internship through the Geological Society of America’s GeoCorps program and worked on a water quality project monitoring backcountry alpine lakes. This was a time in my life where every …
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I spend Monday through Friday land-locked between the 101 and the 10. At the strike of 2:45 beckoning the weekend – my mind races straight to her. She spends the week baiting me with her forecast, promising frozen precipitation, bluebird skies, and a chai latte upon my arrival. No matter …
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I recently celebrated a milestone birthday…I turned 30. Yikes! It’s a big number with lots of – or so I felt – ‘life weight’. I had to do something special on November 10th, 2016. Perched atop my Bucket List for far too long has been scuba diving in a cenoté. The deep, …
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