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I've been a scuba diver since I was 16 and I think that was one of the reasons they chose me.

I remember going to my school careers advisor and asked about jobs that required scuba divers. It was a phase.

I look really good in a scuba suit.

I love scuba diving, and I've been up and down the Amazon.

I made that decision back in 1985. I was out here getting certified in SCUBA with Garcia in Kona and I thought to myself, this is a place to wake up in in the morning.

I know it's odd. But when I was getting scuba certified, it was explained very early on that you never get to just strap on a tank and jump into the ocean. You have to know how deep you're going, and the deeper you go, the less amount of time you stay down there - and it takes longer to get to the surface.

I do an awful lot of scuba diving. I love to be on the ocean, under the ocean. I live next to the ocean.

I'm a big diver. I like to dive when I travel, and my last dive was in the Galapagos. I used to live in San Francisco and I would dive all the time in Monterey.

I think being a competitive diver for years helps you focus and dedicate yourself to what's needed.

So many of the pleasures of recreational scuba diving don't exist for the deep wreck diver. It's not beautiful scenery for the most part; in fact, it's usually very dark. It's physically burdensome. These guys carry almost two hundred pounds of equipment, and should any of that equipment fail, they risk death.