To understand the scout knife is to understand the origin of the multi-tool and the enduring value of distilled versatility: every essential tool required for the field, without the encumbrance of the excessive. At first pass, "scout knife" suggests a knife used by scouts or the Boy Scouts of America. And indeed the BSA does use a multi-bladed pocket knife by that name. But apart from its namesake, what defines a scout knife, and...

Operation Sea Gate, represented a collaborative effort between the Underwater Exploration Team component of the Prometheus Design Werx (PDW) Field Team, Dr. Matthew Forest, from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Saruhén Avila Moreno of Comisión Nacional de Áreas Naturales Protegidas from the Mexican Government, and Dale Pearson, a speciality diver and experienced guide. The primary objective of the expedition was to investigate shallow marine hydrothermal activity around a group of islands called Las Islas...

Operation Aqua Terra is an annual trip that we go on to fully immerse ourselves in the environment. We use the trip as a way to test and use gear in a number of different conditions including hiking, climbing, swimming and more in one river canyon area by the Central Californian Coast. One of the requirements of this particular outing is that all of our gear has to be kept dry while immersed in...

Operation Aqua Terra is an annual trip that we go on to fully immerse ourselves in the environment. We use the trip as a way to test and use gear in a number of different conditions including hiking, climbing, swimming and more in one river canyon area by the Central Californian Coast. One of the requirements of this particular outing is that all of our gear has to be kept dry while immersed in...