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I had an absolutely magical stop over at Crater Lake, Oregon, during Day 1 of my relocation drive to California! Check out these amazing photos from my time driving and hiking around the ancient volcano

I'm moving to California in less than a week! I accepted a super awesome Senior Software Engineering position at Procore in Carpinteria, California. Here's a view from my new workplace: I'll be super busy

I'm riding on a dolphin, doing flips and shit The dolphin's splashing, getting everybody all wet But this ain't Sea World, this is real as it gets @thescubageek is hungover and doesn't have the energy

Damn it feels good to be a gangsta 😜 (Fun fact: This photo is not Photoshopped) I was a Featured Author in today's Curie Author Showcase for my How to Survive a Homemade Submarine series! It's a real

Aliens exist! And they live much closer than you think... Agggh, what the heck is that thing?! That's a Dumbo Octopus, a deep-dwelling species of octopus that "flies" with the two little

"Karl, there's something freakin' huge outside!" --Me (aka @thescubageek) Read Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 The submarine sharply lurches towards starboard, shocking me from my internal reverie.

This is a true story... I believe alien life is quite common in the universe, although intelligent life is less so. Some say it has yet to appear on planet Earth. --Stephen Hawking Read Part 1 and Part

This is a true story... The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever. --Jacques Cousteau Read part 1 here I start becoming convinced that this is a bad idea right as the Pink

This is a true story... “If thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee” -- Friedrich Nietzsche I’m staring into the jagged maw of a prehistoric pillbug as its three-inch mandibles

We all thought our tour guide Deni was a bit crazy when he told us to swim under this tiny crack in the side of a limestone wall! It was a total trust dive. We played an underwater game of follow-the-leader

Wajag Island in Raja Ampat, Indonesia has the best snorkelling I've ever experienced! The coral's coverage and vibrancy are simply unparalleled, and the marine life is out of this world. On this one snorkel

We accidentally got caught between a water buffalo cow and her calf on our way back down from Annapurna Base Camp! While going through the narrow streets of Ghandruk, Nepal, we ran into this mother/baby

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There are precious few moments in life where you see something truly incredible -- where you experience this intense presence of being one with nature and life. The sunrise that greeted us at Annapurna

The Annapurna Sanctuary Trek in the Himalayas of Nepal might as well be renamed the "I Hope You Like Stairs" Trek! Machhapuchre Base Camp (MBC) at 3900m/12800ft is the second-highest base camp

Turtles need naptimes too! After a long hard day of free-diving and munching on sponges, this little green turtle decides to take a nap on a branch of soft coral. The coral provides the turtle with a stable,

Amazing footage of two octopuses trying to mate while a third one watches! Watch as the white male at the beginning of the video goes through a mindblowing amalgamation of colors, shapes, and textures

Monkey Face Rock is a deep massive overhanging coral formation protruding from the reef wall on Roatan, Honduras. In my previous posts about exploring the deep sides of Monkey Face Rock and Pillar Coral,

Rocketing down the coral wall face, the Roatan Tec Team plunges to 45m/150ft to explore a deep massive overhang that I've named "Monkey Face Rock." It's hard to describe the exhilarating rush

Before leaving Roatan, Honduras, I had one last chance do a technical dive on "Monkey Face Rock," a mysterious deep formation just to the north of the Pillar Coral. Back in 2008, I did a deep