The Wandering Honeybadger, Red Sea, Egypt, 2018
I was certified back in 1976 over here in Victoria, BC, Canada. I have been diving continuously since 1976, and in addition to putting more than 5000 hours underwater in a wide variety of situations, both sport diving and commercial. I have also dove in a variety of locations around the world.
I hit 100 dives in 1977, my first year of diving. I worked for the local aquarium for a few years, during which I also had the opportunity to dive with the captive juvenile Orca named Miracle on two occasions with UW camera equipment. I shifted to more commercial diving, for two years working as a Geoduck diver, and sea urchin harvesting, via hookah rig, up in Clayoquot Sound, Barkley Sound, and down in Victoria around the Gulf Islands.
I have been sport diving around the world at:
Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
Similan Islands, Thailand
Knights Islands, New Zealand
Koronati Islands, Croatia
Vietnam,
Myanmar
Marshall Islands (spent a month on a 65′ sailboat there, scuba diving every day on various atolls)
Bali
Since I retired in 2014, I have done the following dives:
Blue Hole Belize
Roatan, Honduras
Boca Del Torres, Panama
Sri Lanka
Maldives
Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
Australia Great Barrier Reef
Australia (shark cage)
Philippines Coron (WW2 Japanese wrecks) see video on Youtube – Deep Deep Inside the Wrecks of Coron
Philippines El Nido & Moalboal
Philippines Oslob (1 dive with whale sharks) video on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Cozumel, Mexico
The Red Sea, Egypt
Komodo Islands, Indonesia – See photo slideshow (mostly underwater)
In my diving experience I have been a primary, secondary, and witness to recovery of: a dead body (my last dive of my course, we found and recovered), a stolen vehicle, and a gun that was used as evidence as a weapon in a successful prosecution of murder.