Trip Reports

Trip Report | Socorro | Dec 2019

Less than five hours on a plane? Tons of pelagics? Amazing Liveaboards? Yes, yes, and yes! Socorro has been added to our list of places we can't wai...

Trip Report | Solomons | Sep 2018

The Solomon Islands are one of the last truly remote locations.  We've spent a good deal of time in the Solomons over the last several years and are looking fo...

Trip Report | Forgotten Islands | Nov 2017

Banda Sea blue.  It should be in the color wheel somewhere.  Our back-to-back trips aboard the Blue Manta took us to some of our favorite spots like Gili Manuk as well as some new places (you'll just have to join us next time to find out what they ...

Trip Report | Cocos | Aug 2017

The diving at Cocos Island, Costa Rica is about as different from that in Indonesia as you can get (short of adding ice to the equation).  Yet, the bleak under...

Trip Report | Komodo | June 2017

Five years ago our good friends and amazing underwater photographers Andrew Sallmon and Allison Vitsky Sallmon got married at the amazing Ayana Resort in Bali....

Digital Shootout | Bonaire | 2017

Well, after almost 11 years we made it back to the Caribbean.  For the 2017 Digital Shootout in Bonaire I was the Nauticam rep.  In addition to getting demo gear into people's hands I was also invited to participate in the nightly critique panel, g...

Trip Report | Raja and Triton | Apr 2017

Well, after a total of 22 flights between February and May we returned to a sunny Portland with terabytes of 8K RED Weapon Helium footage and lots of amazing Ol...

Trip Report | Raja Ampat | Jan 2017

We rang in the New Year aboard the Pindito with roman candles, expired flares, and amazing diving.  This year (and part of last year too?) we decided to do som...

Trip Report | Fiji | Oct 2016

Fiji. So many of the places we lead trips to are not really known to those who don’t partake in diving. Not Fiji. The word rolls off your tongue and you can feel yourself relax as you say it. To most it brings up a mental slideshow of bucolic tropi...

Trip Report | Komodo | Aug 2016

I look back at all the trips we’ve done and realize that we’ve had the stars align just right so many times. From our manta madness in Hanifaru Bay (the onl...