In recent years, Robbie’s work has been recognized by multiple international media sources.

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC: Adventurers of the Year 2007

GoPro Searching the Mayan Underworld Series

GoPro: Cave Explorer’s Near Death Experience

DIVE MAGAZINE: Breakthrough to Discover the World’s Longest Flooded Cave

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC: World’s Largest Underwater Cave Discovered

SMITHSONIAN MAG: World’s Largest Underwater Cave System Discovered in Mexico

MEXICO NEWS DAILY: Underwater Cave is the World’s Biggest

UN WORLD OCEAN’S DAY: A life of exploration: Diving the caves of the Yucatán Peninsula 

Robbie has also been recognized by the following institutions for the headway his exploration of the underwater cave systems has made in recent years.

National Geographic Adventurers of the Year 2007 Recipient

2008 NSS Certificate of Merit Recipient

New York Explorer’s Club Member (2018- Current)