With five patents and two more pending, I have created a wide array of products used at the highest levels of movie/tv production – including an Emmy and AMPAS “Technical Achievement” award-winning product – plus now the extremely advanced Trion Mask.

I began composing classical style music when 10 years old but got drawn into becoming a successful Hollywood-based songwriter, lyricist and music producer working with brilliant talent there, in London and Tokyo.

My photography during traveling around the world twice, and visiting over 50 countries, lead to a 24-year career shooting travel and underwater photography for the international, #1 stock photo agency, Comstock.

With a Marine Technology A.S. degree I headed to sea aboard the famous Glomar Challenger to begin traveling all over the world; including aboard the Hughes Glomar Explorer’s CIA mission to raise a Russian submarine. I ultimately achieved a Coast Guard rating of Full Able-bodied Seaman, Unlimited Tonnage & Any Waters.

Beginning as a seaman/diver aboard the famous Glomar Challenger, after numerous other commercial clients I completed that career as a Senior Submersible Pilot for Oceaneering International diving the Gulf of Mexico, the Grand Banks off Newfoundland, the coast of then Yugoslavia and offshore of Barcelona, Spain.

Honored to be voted a member of the prestigious L.A. Adventurers Club in 1996, I penned these 7 initial stories for their monthly journal based upon some near-death experiences … with 10 more to come(?!)