It is incredible having an engineer on the team. Cas Dobbin is able to look at the equipment within the mine and help us all understand how operations might have...
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We had a very productive morning with efficient deployment of the dive teams. Cas Dobbin and I did a 2-hour dive with the goal of reaching major targets in the...
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Good friends will share a toothbrush when they need to. Even better friends trudge through the snow to buy one for each friend unable to make it home in the snow squall. (Thanks...
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Our first order of business was to take a ferry across to Bell Island and then dig the entrance of the mine out of the snow. Fortunately in Newfoundland, every...
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Newfoundland is known for kitchen parties. They usually involve friendship, music and home cooking. We've transformed the kitchen into something even bigger. Dive team members are subjecting their bodies to scientific...
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We had some warm up dives at Conception Harbour in the morning to shake out the final bugs in the rebreathers and cameras. Robert Osborne and Rick Stanley tweaked their...
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I like to arrive on an expedition with plenty of time to assemble gear and work out the kinks before a project begins. I'm really pleased I kept to that plan, since today...
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Our project has had a bit of a setback this morning. Newfoundland has been experiencing record breaking rainfall and with unseasonal warmth, all the winter snow melted. The flood of...
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Team member Sabine Kerkau was recently recognized with a DIWA Award (Diving Instructor World Association) at the Boot Show in Dusseldorf, Germany. The award recognizes her work in exploration and diving journalism, most notably for feature stories on technical diving projects. Kerkau will be writing articles about the Bell Island project in her native German language for several media outlets in Europe.