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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I love scuba diving, and I've been up and down the Amazon.
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 remember going to my school careers advisor and asked about jobs that required scuba divers. It was a phase.
I've been a scuba diver since I was 16 and I think that was one of the reasons they chose me.
Belize suits me because I'm active and I like diving. I learnt when I was 18, in Thailand, and I have dived in Vietnam, which wasn't great, the Red Sea, which was incredible and reasonably priced, and then the Maldives, which is like being submerged in an aquarium.
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 finally became a scuba diver at age 15 or so, and a couple of years after that, I attended a dive show that is held every year in Boston. It's the oldest one in the world and it's still going on - it's called the Sea Rovers.
Growing up in Alaska, they don't really teach you to swim there. I learned to swim just a few summers ago with Olympic gold medalist Amanda Beard. She did great, and right after that I went to get scuba certified. I had fun with it. I didn't really get scared, but some people thought that was a risk.
I was training more learning how to scuba dive which I'd never done which was really, really, really cool.
I'm a scuba diver but not certified.