Scuba Diving

Scuba diving occupied many years of my life, from the moment I visited The Florida Keys in 1976 and was fascinated by the explosion of life under the waters off Marathon Key. By 1980, I had begun diving off the coast of Isla Mujeres, which was then a deserted island and completed my Instructors Certification in January off the coast of Vancouver Island. Since then, I have logged over 3000 dives.

One of my proudest accomplishments was completing my Master Scuba Diver Trainer’s Certificate and leading the World Wildlife Fund‘s Board of Directors on diving tours in Belize in an effort to educate the board and secure funding for offshore moorings. I also partnered with Dr. Andrea Marshall, Co-Founder of the Marine Megafauna Foundation in Mozambique to brand and build their first website and later, helped developed her Queen of the Mantas website, for which she is internationally know in Conservation.

Scuba Diving

Laughing Bird Caye

Laughing Bird Caye National Park is one of the gems in a string of pearls of the Belizean Barrier Reef World Heritage Site. It is a beautiful little island situated 11 miles off the coast from Placencia Village. The…

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Roatan

The first time I visited Anthony’s Key was to purchase their 48 foot Pro Dive boat they had for sale and I had flown over from Belize via Pedro San Sula to Roatan to check the boat out. I’m…

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Seven Barnacles

Twenty-one miles off the southern coast of Belize lies three small islands called The Silk Cayes. Of the three, the northern-most caye is virtually a bump in the ocean. The Silk Caye is large enough to pull a few…

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A Tale of Three Steves…

In 2003, Scuba Diving magazine rep Steve Eisenberg approached me and asked for a couple of days of scuba diving from the dive shop I was operating in southern Belize. Since this included meeting and leading one of the…

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Glovers Atoll

Glover’s Atoll is a partially submerged atoll located off the southern coast of Belize, approximately 45 kilometres from the mainland. It forms part of the outermost boundary of the Belize Barrier Reef, and is one of its three atolls,…

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Grand Cayman Island

On December 30, 1997, I left to go to Grand Cayman Island. A friend of mine had contacted me and wanted someone to house sit her condo for a month while she was visiting Scotland. I had three weeks…

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Blue Grace

Blue Grace was a bit of a dream for me. After returning from an eighteen month project on the island of St. Martin in 1987, where I had been introduced to big open water sailing between the islands of…

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Martinique

Martinique is very much a Caribbean Island, but with a difference. When you touch down at the Aimé Césaire airport, you are officially on French soil. In 1946, this former colony was named an Overseas Department of France, and…