Inkfish - operation logistics & scientific diving team

At Inkfish (2025), I am involved in both the shoreside logistics team (scientific expedition permitting, web design and playbook guides, sample biosecurity and remote PBQ help), along with being an expedition diver and building our scientific diving operations in teams around the world. See below for images and expeditions:

Inkfish expedition participation

  • Trans-Pacific Transit, Open Ocean Program (2023)

    Scientist on the RV Dagon, with UWA Deep Sea Foundation and the British Geological Society.

    Assisting on the TPT Leg 4 from Honolulu to Ensenada

    Deployment / retrival of landers with crane and zodiac

    Deep-sea Fish ID analysis, amphipod collection, baiting

    eXpendable BathyThermograph deployments

  • Solomon Islands Leg 4, genetic diversity (2025)

    Expedition diver and scientist on the RV Hydra as part of the Inkfish Expedition team in the Solomons.

    Scientific diving for clam tissue sampling and damsel fish collections

    Topside logistics and urchin snorkels

    Lab processing, photographing and disecting of demselfish and specimen preservation

    DSO and DEAP training ft lifting patients into hyperbaric chamber