Stav Dimitropoulos

Author bio

Stav Dimitropoulos’s science writing has appeared online or in print for the BBC, Discover, Scientific American, Nature, Science, Runner’s World, The Daily Beast, and others. Dimitropoulos disrupted an athletic and academic career to become a journalist and get to know the world.

Stav Dimitropoulos’s Contributions:

Saturation diver Jadon Anderson works on an oil rig in Malaysia.

Coastal Job: Saturation Diver

A few times a year, Jadon Anderson spends about a month living in a large metal tube with eight other people and diving deep in the ocean to work on oil platforms.

May 29, 2020 | 550 words, about 2 minutes

Going Fishing for Ghost Gear

Scientists are developing tracking tags to help catch lost fishing gear.

Aug 12, 2019 | 750 words, about 3 minutes

unmanned surface vehicle used in the XPRIZE competition

How a Far-Flung Group of Scientists Claimed the Ocean Discovery XPRIZE

Advances made to win XPRIZE will help with the quest to map the seafloor—an effort with scientific and industrial appeal.

Jun 5, 2019 | 1,000 words, about 5 minutes

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