I have loved the ocean from the moment I set foot in the surf as a five-year-old in Southern California. I learned to bodysurf and boogie board in La Jolla California, where I spent long unsupervised days surfing the waves. I walked on the beach at sunrise looking for mysterious sea creatures that often washed up on shore. By the time I was 21, I had spent time surfing in Capitola, windsurfing on the San Francisco Bay and scuba diving in Monterey California. I took, then returned to teach a scientific diving class at U.C. Berkeley. I was fortunate to work for local diving pioneer Lloyd Austin who supervised the research diving class as Diving Safety Officer and Chair of the Division of Diving Control.

Diving around the world, I often shared the ocean with sharks, whales, dolphins, rays and have explored the interiors of WWII Japanese shipwrecks in Truk Lagoon of Micronesia and the cenotes of Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula. My passion for diving and photographing sea creatures has drawn me to Southern California, Palau, Truk, Fiji, Tonga, Bail, Thailand, Indonesia, Baja California, Bonaire, Curacao, Turks and Caicos, the Bahamas, Grand Cayman, Belize, Honduras, Panama, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Ecuador (the Galapagos).

In 2015, I began assisting researchers on shark tagging trips to Cocos Island 340 Southwest of Costa Rica in the Pacific. There I learned to tag sharks and spent time photographing sharks, rays and sea life of all kinds. I have assisted reseachers on three trips to Cocos Island and one trip to Revillagigedo (aka Socorro).

Using my photography, this Web site and articles published through other media, I hope to highlight incredible places in the ocean and the work of people who have dedicated their lives to protecting marine life from extinction and protecting the oceans from the worst of human impacts.