More Videos On Vita Aquatica
New videos on Vita Aquatica, dedicated to the French pioneers of diving and a legend of underwater filming.
The Last Three Hundred Years
These processes filling the last three hundred years have been as follows: (1) A rapid extension of physical science and with it of every other form of acquaintance with demonstrable and measurable things. (2) The rise, chiefly in the new Protestant part of Europe (but spreading thence in part to the Catholic) of what we […]
Pacific Images Is Up
I started a new web page where my underwater pictures can be licensed. It is called Pacific Images. Feel free to browse or search the collection.
The Comfort Of The Dark Ages
In this closed crucible of the Dark Ages crystallized also—by a process which we cannot watch, or of which we have but glimpses—that rich mass of jewels, the local customs of Europe, and even the local dress, which differentiates one place from another, when the communications of a high material civilization break down. In all […]
Be Careful What You Read
“In reading Chesterton, as in reading MacDonald, I did not know what I was letting myself in for. A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere — “Bibles laid open, millions of surprises,” as Herbert says, “fine nets and stratagems.” God is, […]
Let Us Dive Elsewhere
When I tell people I do scuba diving and underwater photography, they usually ask if I have dived Poor Knights, the famous marine reserve of the coast of Tutukaka. I haven’t. Not that I think the diving there is not good. I believe it is great. Just I haven’t found strong enough reason to go […]