Lightning Juices My Body

September 18, 2015 Lightning electrical skies… addicting…  charged…  electricity in the air… lime rock insomnia… The summer was dry and the rainy season late this year. But the afternoon and evening thunderstorms came back toward the end of August and for most...

“Be Riding Our Bike and a Crocodile Try to Eat Our Wheels”

Monday, September 20, 2015 Nothing stops an athlete. Haven’t been able to get anybody to ride the 15 mile Everglades loop trail with me yet so yesterday I finally asked James Baldwin and he said #cool. Go Tell it on the Mountain. You can even do ab hold-crunches while...

The Wind Stopped Blowing After 2 Weeks Straight

October 29, 2015 The wind stopped blowing I can’t wait to dive at night When I get more pro. Since that first cold front of the season hit the East Coast the wind has been blowing hard, some days up to 30 mph, with higher gusts. Several times we had scheduled dives...

I Could(n’t) be a Martian

November 5, 2015 You know, when you go underwater, you either have to hold your last one breath (free diving), or be attached to a pressurized life-support breathing system (scuba diving). Either way, as long as you are underwater you will never draw a free breath...

I Pray for Paris; I Pray for Baga, Nigeria on Lake Chad too

15 November 2015 Pray for Paris, ‪#‎wagepeace, fight strategically with direct, thoughtful force, intervene for the minds of young impressionable males before they are poisoned by those who salivate with evil, torture and murder, and don’t forget others who have been...

Dive Log 7: Sleeping with a Nurse Shark

New Year’s Day, 1 January 2016 Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, FL Dive Log 7 (snorkel shore dive, destination ¼ mile out) Encountered: Nurse shark, trumpetfish, a school of ballyhoo halfbeaks, plus some other fish I couldn’t identify yet Depth: 20 feet Elevation above sea...