Articles & Musings

I almost died today. Or so I was told by former Space Shuttle Commander “Hoot” Gibson after it was all over. Somehow looking through a view finder on a camera makes everything less real. But let me back up — I’m getting ahead of myself. You see, I’ve been here at the Reno Air Races … Read more

The adventure trip you can’t buy — four days packed with adventure with innovators that are nearly impossible to meet. I was the connector and exploration consultant on this incredible four day journey. I got to introduce two of my very favorite things: sea & space exploration to about 60 very high net-worth folks. I … Read more

Boundaries are created by our beliefs. They aren’t meant to keep us in, but to serve as starting points to see how much further out we can go.

We joined Scott Cassell and the Undersea Voyager Project during their kickoff expedition near Lake Tahoe. The team was exploring Lake Tahoe and Fallen Leaf Lake for one month in the SEAMobile submersible. The mission included training and orientation with the submersibles and conducting underwater surveys of the lake bottom. I’d worked on plenty of … Read more

Sea Launch is one of the coolest things I’ve ever encountered. The whole concept is something I would have thought only existed in movies, not twenty miles down the freeway from me. “Think cool as in a James Bond kind of cool.” Imagine a derelict oil platform from the North Sea rescued by a Norwegian … Read more