Dive into my world.

Three weeks before a Caribbean trip is a bad time to lose a strobe. My YS-D2 had been showing signs of trouble at Hakai — locking up on full power, no middle ground, no negotiation. If you’ve shot with Sea&Sea long enough, you already know this failure mode. The TTL circuitry checks out and the strobe commits to one setting: maximum blast, every single frame. My YS-D1, sitting in the same rig for just as long, is still running perfectly. Of course it is. With La Romana on the

The dive had already tested us before we even hit the water. Our entry at Edward Passage in Hakai was brutal — 75cm swells hammering the site, current shoving us sideways toward a rock wall the moment we surfaced. Getting down was a relief. At least underwater, the chaos had rules. At 23m the viz opened up to a moody but workable 7m, a real improvement over the murk above 12m. A lingcod rocketed past like a shadow with an attitude, and tucked into the walls were clusters of p

Some work trips feel routine. Others feel like stepping into another world. My trip to Hakai Lodge on Calvert Island definitely belongs in the second category. For anyone who hasn’t been there, Hakai Passage sits along the remote central coast of British Columbia — a place where the rainforest drops straight into the Pacific, where the tides move with real force, and where the wildlife feels raw and untamed. Hakai Lodge itself is perched on the edge of Calvert Island, surroun

Before I ever trusted my Sony a7R IV to the Seafrogs SF10009 housing, I wanted to know exactly what it could handle. It’s one thing to read specs and watch promo videos — it’s another to take a brand‑new piece of gear into a truly unforgiving environment. And where I live, there’s no better place to push equipment to its limits than under the ice. This wasn’t a photo dive. This was a stress test. I brought only the housing and 230mm dome port. The goal was simple: find out h

When I decided to take underwater photography seriously, I knew I needed a camera that felt familiar — something I could operate instinctively, even in a place where everything is harder: buoyancy, lighting, movement, and the simple act of pressing a button. Underwater, you don’t have time to think about where a setting is buried in a menu. You need muscle memory. That’s what led me to the Sony a7R IV. I’d already been using the Sony a6600 for work, and I knew the Sony ecosys

If you’re reading this, welcome — and thanks for being here at the beginning of something I’ve been quietly building toward for most of my life. My fascination with the underwater world started long before I ever put on a tank. As a kid, I was glued to the TV whenever a James Bond movie featured those dramatic underwater scenes. Something about the silence, the mystery, the sense of another world just below the surface — it stuck with me. Years later, diving became part of my