Good trip to Mexico, did some touring about and then several days of serious cave diving finishing up with the exploration of several hundred feet of new tunnel in cenote Zapote near Puerto Morelos.

Back working again, probably heading to the east coast in a couple of months.

Peru is still on, just not sure when now.

Looks like I might be on my way to Peru in late March immediately followed by Mexico. I now have a boatload of training to do and not much time...

Finally got off my butt and moved myself and the clan out of the mountains. New place, more compact, way less expensive and I can still get to skiing and climbing in 30-40 minutes.

Bit of a detour, as dad had emergency quintuple bypass surgery two days after I got to Florida. I ended up staying here and will be here through early next week, nearly a month. On the upside, some friends came up from Mexico and we did some cave diving.

Confronting my parent's mortality has been very difficult. My mother died this year at 82. She had a very full life and by many measures a successful one. I have always had a close relationship with my parents, and losing my mother and watching my father's decline have been hard for me.

RIP Mom

Time for another two week tour, this time through Florida and then on to Akumal, MX for some diving!

Well I released a new iPhone application in collaboration with Bettina called Black Jack Bettina.
You can grab it here:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/black-jack-bettina/id416362201?mt=8

Other than that I am getting ready for some ice diving next weekend and then a trip to Mexico for some cave diving/exploration.


It's incredibly bloody fucking cold here right now.

We got some great shots of this eagle at weekend in New Mexico.



The diving was really good and we got our survey project started. I got to dive with most of my crew and they all made contributions to the survey.

Projects, I have so many...
Design new rebreather electronics based on a concept of 'minimal sufficiency'
Write seminar materials for in-water recompression treatments
Finish pin-up card game for iPhone
Organize dive expedition to Antarctica for 2013
Organize formal survey of a deep sink hole in New Mexico
Port gas blending software from iPhone to Android

I may need to hire some help.... or tap dance a little harder.

Did a tremendous deep exploration dive in Florida while I was there in November. We dove the second deepest underwater cave in the US, Diepolder II. It was a longish dive-3.5 hours, with a little excitement in the deep tunnel when a chunk of the ceiling fell on me at a depth of 325ft. Had a good laugh about it passing notes back and forth in the spring basin during our hour long stop there at 20ft.

Wow, I've been in Colorado like, two whole weeks. I am actually working at software development again for a bit. End of November is the next journey, Florida again in January, then Mexico in February and Cayman next August. I guess when I die, the little jar of ashes will continue to travel.

Having just got back from 14 days on the road in California, training, diving and climbing, I am on my way to New Mexico for the selfsame. I am looking forward to merely visiting Florida for a week at the end of November. Fall is definitely here, we have had some snow already and it's gotten chilly.