I guess you can say that I always had a desire to write. As a busy professional with a brutal travel schedule it always seemed too hard to find the time to sit down and write. Several years ago after we had been running our dive shop – Scuba Shack in Rocky Hill, CT, I decided to start writing a weekly blog for our dive center website. I called that blog Scuba Shack Weekly. My intention was to keep our customers and potential clients informed of all that was happening around the dive shop and also pass along some other interesting items.
After about a year of writing Scuba Shack Weekly, I decided to start a podcast. That podcast is Scuba Shack Radio, a bi-weekly podcast in support of Scuba Shack’s mission to empower individuals with knowledge, ability and experience to venture underwater in pursuit of their aspirations and to advocate for ocean health and sustainability. I had also produced a number of YouTube videos titled – The Fish and Things I’ve Found Underwater. I was keeping busy with the weekly blog, marketing newsletters, and the podcast.
Against this backdrop, I decided to begin my journey as an author. I had been doing a segment on the podcast called Your Next Dive. I would talk about the places I had been diving and give the listeners a little bit of information about these destinations. A six minute to eight minute segment on a podcast couldn’t do justice to the incredible diving experiences I was fortunate to have had. So Your Next Dive – My Adventures in Scuba Diving is coming soon.