The Canadian Association for Underwater Science annual Scientific Diving Symposium was hosted in St. John’s Newfoundland this year with perfect timing. Our team put in a good performance. Neal Pollock gave a seminar on Physical Fitness for Scientific Diving. Rick Stanley and Phil Short gave an excellent talk on our project and surprised us will a 3-minute video clip edited by our extremely talented cameraman Cecil Johnson. He stayed up to the wee hours of the morning to prep a fabulous preview of our project. I ended the day with the Keynote talk on Operational Dive Safety. After a meal at Yellow Belly’s…
The world came to Bell Island today or vice versa I suppose. Today we created an amazing global collaboration with the help of TED. TED Ed has over 2000 clubs in...
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This morning the team traveled to Villa Nova School in Conception Bay South and had an assembly with the sixth grade students. We brought lots of cave diving equipment and...
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Exploration diver/underwater photographer Cas Dobbin is an engineer in the oil and gas industry. After many dives, he was able to piece together a concept of how the mine might...
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Our team had an afternoon hike around St. John's to get the blood flowing in the fresh winter air. We were able to see several Canadian Historical Sites and then...
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In 2004, the Department of Natural Resources, Mines Branch for Newfoundland and Labrador produced a report that described some of the history and geography of the Bell Island Mine. The...
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One of the most beautiful aspects of expedition life is the amount of pure living that you can pack into a single day. We've always said that we would be successful if...
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Today we arrived at the mine to discover a major river running down the slope. With the intense rain and snow melt on the island, all the water had to...
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We awoke to screaming winds and were worried about getting across The Tickle to Bell Island. We packed everything we could and rushed to the ferry. At the dock, the...
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