Prometheus Design Werx

Dispatches

09
/16

Operation: Sea Gate

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...
Posted by: Patrick Ma
09
/16

Operation: Return to Tatoonie

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...
Posted by: Patrick Ma
09
/16

Operation: Vita Dulcis Est

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...
Posted by: Patrick Ma
09
/16

Operation: Poseidon Clear

Operation Poseidon Clear saw a return of the Prometheus Design Werx Field Team to the Sea of Cortez in Baja, Mexico. As guests of the Comisión Nacional de Áreas Naturales Protegidas (National Commission of Natural Protected Areas) with the Mexican government, the PDW UET was tasked to work with locals in the area to identify, locate and clear illegal fishing nets and trolling lines used by cartel-poachers that had been left behind in the...
Posted by: Patrick Ma
02
/16

The Scout Knife: A Definitive Study in Distilled Utility

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...
Posted by: Patrick Ma
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