My first experience with scuba was as a kid in Redondo Beach, CA.  I used to sneak down to the beach after school and hike down the beach to the Palos Verdes area.  Along the way I would do what most kids would be doing on an unauthorized outing, I would explore the cliffs and play in the surf, all to my poor sainted mother’s chagrin.  She was working two jobs to keep the food on the table and the roof overhead and I was nine, wanting to explore the world.  She would ask with admonition, “Did you sneak down to the beach today?”  To which I would reply, “No.”  “Then why is there sand in the tub?” she would demand.  “I don’t know.” was my best reply.

I remember seeing the scuba divers walking up onto the beach after their dives on occasion and saying to myself that someday I would do that.  Well that someday didn’t come for me for another thirty years.  Fortunately, scuba is something I managed to find the time for.

I became a scuba enthusiast as I knew I would and couldn’t get enough of it, so I did what many of us have done and left the manufacturing world to open a dive center.  I became an instructor and have logged about a thousand dives.  Also, like many of us I have had to leave the dive business to return to the world of high wages.

This site is dedicated to promoting the sport that I love, the people who are in it, the areas that I know (we may add more) and providing all of that is a way that the diving public will find useful.  Hopefully, along the way I will be able to promote myself as an instructor, photographer and writer.