Help celebrate GUE‘s 20th anniversary, with this special edition backplate and wing.
Category: Diving
Why lie about remaining air supply? An interesting anecdote and discussion of the effect of fixed vs growth mindsets on learning.
Happy 20th Anniversary! Some updates from Global Underwater Explorers.
Congratulations to new GUE diver, Gordon Tan, who passed GUE Fundamentals at Perth Scuba, Western Australia. We had a great time in the west, overcoming some challenging conditions for a successful course.
In 2016, I joined the Lipari Acheo Project for Global Underwater Explorers and the Soprintendenza del Mare of Sicily, cataloguing and mapping the “Capistello Bay” wreck, a greek cargo ship from around 300 BC. An amazing experience. I’m excited to rejoin the project this week.
Boo! Ze Frank narrates a True Facts nature documentary on Frog Fish.
How should I frame this? Selecting better video frames for photogrammetry
Sometimes my spheres of interest overlap. Meeting Matt Carter at OzTek a couple of years ago, and working with Pim Bongaerts on mesophotic.org introduced me to photogrammetry, and over the past few weeks I’ve been processing some models using 4K video. Selecting useable still frames is tedious at best: manual selection is a non starter, and basic selection with ffmpeg often produces blurred frames. […]
I finally got around to moving my site from Tumblr to WordPress. It seemed like the thing to do. Perhaps I’ll write more, and perhaps not. We’ll see…
Gas Manager
I’ve finally released my new gas management program for iPhone & iPod touch. Gas Manager helps you choose and blend custom gas mixes for diving. It includes partial pressure blending (with fudge factors), top off and best mix, as well as MOD, END and EAD calculations. Check it out!
The Thresher Shark Research And Conservation Project, Quest Magazine
An article I wrote (with fellow GUE diver Nathalie Udo) about our experience with TSRCP in the Philippines has finally been published in the latest issue (12.3) of GUE’s Quest Magazine (available with GUE membership).