“Why did you learn to dive and where did your adventure take you?” This is the question Shearwater Research, a Canadian company who designs and manufactures technical dive computers and electronic control systems for rebreather manufacturers, asked several well-known figures from the international scuba diving community and the Shearwater team. Video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erBakhvAADo...
Canadian Geographic Magazine’s Big Picture!
Big Picture Feature! Our image of a red eye medusa jellyfish is the “Big Picture” featured in a double-page spread of the July/August 2020 issue of Canadian Geographic, a magazine of The Royal Canadian Geographical Society. Canadian Geographic has been making Canada better known to Canadians and the world since is was first published...
Gearing up for a Polar Expedition Cruise
Editor’s Picks “Gearing Up For A Polar Expedition Cruise” is our latest Luxe Beat Third Age Expeditions column has just been published. And we have another “Editor’s Picks” feature! “The time to prepare for your next expedition is when you have just returned from a successful trip.” Robert Peary, Polar Explorer. For many people,...
Napoleons Tomb: Last Tango in Paris
Luxe Beat Magazine has today published our latest Third Age Expeditions column called “Last Tango in Paris: Napoléon’s Tomb.” It has earned us another “Editor’s Picks.” Here is a link to the story: Here
Underwater Playground
Underwater Photo Feature I just received a PDF of a photo feature about my underwater photography which was published in the “Lens Flare” section of “Ocean: The World of Luxury Yachting” magazine which is published in the land down under. You know, that place where women glow and men plunder. Yes, indeed, I’m talking...
Tobermory’s Shipwrecks: Graveyard of the Great Lakes
We have another Tobermory story to be released soon elsewhere, but in the meantime, here is our latest Third Age Expeditions column for LuxeBeat Magazine called “Graveyard of the Great Lakes: Tobermory’s Shipwrecks.” The editor said… “Perfect article for October.” and we have also been awarded another “editor’s pick.” The quaint village of Tobermory,...
Raptures of the Deep: Beneath British Columbia’s Emerald Sea
“Raptures of the Deep: Beneath British Columbia’s Emerald Sea”, our latest Third Age Expeditions column for Luxe Beat Magazine, has just been published. Raptures of the Deep In his best-selling book, “The Silent World”, Captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau waxed poetically about his intrepid 50-fathom dives into the zone of rapture, that precarious depth where… “divers...
The Ultimate Undersea Skill: Fish Photography
Luxe Beat Magazine. has published our latest Third Age Expeditions column called, “Fish Photography: The Ultimate Undersea Skill.” This article was also selected an Editors Pick Feature. Stalk, don’t chase It’s futile to chase any fish, as they are constantly alert to predatory behavior. When frightened, either by sight, sound or vibration, they’ll flee,...
Luxe Beat Magazine: Realm of the Giant Pacific Octopus
Luxe Beat Magazine has published our latest Third Age Expeditions column: Realm of the Giant Pacific Octopus. Beguiling Cephalopods The largest giant Pacific octopus ever found reportedly weighed 600 pounds and measured 31 feet (9.5 meters) from tentacle to tentacle. Though disproportionately strong for their size, as demonstrated by one enterprising 40-pound octopus at...
Fear and Loathing of Sharks
Shearwater Research Inc (manufacturers of rugged dive computers for technical divers) has published our story, Fear and Loathing of Sharks, on their website. It’s more of a love story, really. I have both admired and studied sharks for the past 55 years. Kathryn learned to overcome her fear of sharks after diving into my...