OceanDoctor’s blog Vox 2007-07-31T03:24:37Z OceanDoctor http://oceandoctor.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom tag:vox.com,2006:6p00d414434f546a47/ The Journey West, North, West, North... tag:vox.com,2007-07-31:asset-6a00d414434f546a4700e39899081e0005 2007-07-27T20:17:35Z 2007-07-31T03:24:37Z OceanDoctor http://oceandoctor.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Esperanza at Dutch Harbor The Esperanza at Dutch Harbor

At 5:15 am, the rear suspension of the taxi to Washington, DC's National Airport groaned alarmingly under the weight of my five heavy pieces of luggage: A duffel of dive gear, a pelican case with an underwater video housing, a duffel of warm cl...

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NOAA Diver Wearing a Drysuit Divers at Millbrook Quarry (Haymarket, Virginia) Adventure Scuba Company Technical Instructor Brian E. McMillan Jeff McManus, NAUI Dive Master, at Adventure Scuba Company

As a young teenager, I finally got my wish: Scuba lessons for my 15th birthday! My lessons were in a moldy YMCA pool in suburban Philadelphia, and my first open water dive -- my checkout dive -- was in a quarry in Reading, Pennsylvania in the balm...

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]]> Ginormous is a Word, and Just in Time tag:vox.com,2007-07-16:asset-6a00d414434f546a4700d414486c05685e 2007-07-16T16:15:37Z 2007-07-17T03:58:34Z OceanDoctor http://oceandoctor.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Alaska: The Ginormous State Alaska Would Stretch from Jacksonville, Florida to San Francisco, California EEZ-Map

Last week, Mirriam-Webster' announced that it was adding the word, "ginormous," to its 2007 update of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition. This is great news and comes as a great relief, just in time for next week's kickoff ...

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]]> The Sub Pilot Diet tag:vox.com,2007-07-10:asset-6a00d414434f546a4700d4144cd5ce3c7f 2007-07-10T13:28:15Z 2007-07-10T13:50:18Z OceanDoctor http://oceandoctor.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Shopping in the Name of Science Motion Sickness Desensitivity Training The Sub Pilot Diet Stresses Pleasure

In the 100-degree heat here in Washington, DC, the daily weather reports from Dutch Harbor, Alaska showing highs of 50 degrees seem surreal, yet in just over two weeks, that's where I'll be as we kick off the Bering Sea Expedition aboard Greenp...

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]]> Beneath a British Columbian Waterfall... tag:vox.com,2007-06-29:asset-6a00d414434f546a4700d41442641b685e 2007-06-13T00:33:34Z 2007-07-08T05:15:59Z OceanDoctor http://oceandoctor.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Greenpeace Vessel M/V Esperanza Sub Pilots for Bering Sea Expedition

Greetings from aboard the Greenpeace ship, M/V "Esperanza"! We're anchored beneath a beautiful waterfall in one of British Columbia's magnificent "fjords" to prepare for this summer's intensive expedition to the Bering Sea. Greenpeace's largest...

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OceanDoctors Like to Make Housecalls

During our long road trip to the university where my daughter would soon begin her first year, I was recounting that same period of my life and the fact that my parents had really wanted me to be a doctor....an M.D., that is. I hated to disappoin...

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