The PDW Field Team traveled deep into the California wilderness to test prototype gear in a variety of demanding conditions. Equipped with dry bags, amphibious apparel, and multi-day packs the team navigated a river gorge to a metamorphic rock perch which would be home base for the next 48 hours. can·yon·eer·ing noun \ˌkan-yə-ˈnir-iŋ\ : the sport of exploring canyons (as by climbing, rappelling, or rafting)“ Traversing over fallen trees and plunging into chilled water...

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 specialty diver and experienced guide. The primary objective of the expedition was to investigate shallow marine hydro-thermal activity around a group of islands called Las Islas...

Operation Return to Tatooine was a joint event organized by Prometheus Design Werx to gather together a group of friends and peers in our industry and community who shared a love of Star Wars, overlanding, exploration, and possessed a healthy sense of good natured fun. Starting from PDW HQ in San Francisco, we headed to Southern CA to circle up with the rest of our team and continued east to our final destination in...

VITA DULCIS EST Translates as “The Sweet Life“ in Latin, and has been made possible for humans for millennia by the little yet mighty honey bee (Apis mellifera). Our story begins with the bee and the honey this small creature makes. Many scientists believe that honey bees have their center of origin in South and Southeast Asia. The first fossil record of Apis bees actually appears 34 mya at the Eocene-Oligocene boundary in European...