I am a diver. Diving is and has been a singular passion of mine since my childhood in the 1960s when I would watch Jacques Cousteau explore the world’s oceans aboard his famous research vessel Calypso and Lloyd Bridges starring as the scuba diving Florida detective Mike Nelson on Sea Hunt. The first time I saw a live diver was when my mother took 8-year-old me and my siblings to the aquarium outside of Boston in 1969. There was a large tank with no fish as it was probably undergoing maintenance but there was a diver in that tank working and that was what I could not stop looking at for what seemed like forever…
 
I did get certified to dive at my local YMCA on December 7, 1980 and in the summer of 1981 I started diving the cold waters of the Gulf of Maine and the Bay of Fundy which continues to this day and will for the foreseeable future…
 
I had the great fortune to join PADI when I earned my Advanced Open Water Diver certification on Roatan in Honduras in 2001 and very shortly thereafter I met a young Chris Donnelly at the dive shop where he worked in South Philadelphia and my real diving adventure got turbocharged. I became a divemaster in 2003 and an instructor in 2004. I traveled the world diving and became a technical deep diver in 2007 and was fortunate enough to dive the nuclear wrecks at the Bikini Atoll in the remote South Pacific Marshall Islands in what was one of the adventures of a lifetime with PADI Course Director Nick Jenny.

I look forward to continuing my adventure and re-learning the joy of introducing more of humanity to the underwater environment every time I see the look on a student’s face as they take their first breath underwater.