i happened to watch my copy of “bridge on the river kwai” a few days ago, and all week long i have been struck by how relevant a quote those two words are to my life of late. last week, after a long bout of diving almost every day, i had a couple of days […]

not really, but this little blog will have some interesting “imagery” in it. the past couple or three days i have gotten out into my sculpture studio and made some real progress. i had mostly finished with the upper “surface” of the “matrix material” that the lower figure is embedded in, and i had visions

i just had a couple of days’ diving with a guy named kadin, a recent graduate open water diver, courtesy of my good friend jordan. kadin and i went out for his first official open water dives, and i wanted to say what a pleasure it was to be able to guide him. our first

well, it finally happened– i had thought that the sortuv platform-like area between the body of the lower figure of the sculpture and the edges of this “matrix-like material” had been finished to a good point, but then as i sometimes do i noodled around with it a little bit, which led to an ENORMOUS

i was actually looking forward as of last week to writing this blog– the gloat factor was gonna be immense!! i had planned on going over to cancun and catching the ferry across to isla mujeres (island of women, but not quite what you’d think), where i would be taking a tour out to see

number four or perhaps dolphin number 3(b)? not sure just how to categorise it, or whether it is important or not, but it was a worthy way to begin this little blog. i finally got to cast this little sucker yesterday, along with parts for another uninflated puffer fish, several links for another eagle ray

the lone star pirates were here this last weekend, a grand slam bunch of ’em– 20+ divers for the two main days. originally we had planned on using two boats, but at the last moment (literally– the anita boat had already sailed and had to be called back) the rental boat had a large scale

at least that is the current count, although perhaps it would be more accurate to say two and a half dolphins, as the third is still “under construction”, as they say. i cut a second dolphin wax and was going to use it– until i woke up the next day and took another gander at

not sure if i have used this photo i put in above, but it certainly loaded quickly. i was out to dive once again a couple of mornings ago– the currents have been a little wacky at times of late. on this particular morning we ended up doing santa rosa wall– but in reverse!! the

“WHO IS NUMBER ONE?” well, i don’t expect many people to get that obscure referrence, but i have so very few times in which to use it, so i grab it when i can. diving a lot this week, full of sharks and turtles and green moray eels, all very good stuff. had one day

lately i have been seeing a lot of tank time– leaving the house extra early to get out to the marina and get the boat in shape to go diving, guiding clients, and it has been seriously reducing my time for doing my stuff. i hear you saying to yourself– “big hairy bum fuzz, he

it had been a week since i had worked on my sculpture, as i had been diving every day, and a head full of nitrogen is not too condusive to working on such a fragile piece– just like a doctor, my motto is– “first, do no harm….” and so it was with some anticipation that

diving day– had some marvellous tankage yesterday. only two clients and easy divers, we went out and did a part of colombia reef known as “la piedra grande”– the big stone. this refers to a large scale seamount, huge areas of wall, rivers of sand in between. the water was very clear and the current