My Dive Experience

I grew up in Boston, near the sea, spent summers by the sea, and was always entranced by the ocean.  When traveling in the Caribbean, I learned to dive in the 70s using the double hose regulators, and twin tanks as seen in the Cousteau movies on untouched reefs.  When I went to study physics at the University of Washington, I enrolled in a semester class in SCUBA diving with Instructor John Eggers, a NOAA arctic diver.  We learned decompression diving since that was all there was, using Navy tables, and other skills and dove in the chilly gray waters of Puget Sound in wet suits.  I was told that it was 43.5 degrees in the water and it was snowing on the beach, the day that I was certified.  Hot chocolate was good. I dove from time to time always loving it.  We visited Hawaii and dove and then Eilat, Israel and dove reefs in the Red Sea. My son dove with the dolphins there when he as 8.  When my son was certified, we began to take family dive oriented vacations.  SCUBA and rainforest at the Great Barrier Reef; night, wreck, night and navigation diving in the chilly dark Bra d’Or Lake in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia (along with whale watching, golf and touring); dry suit diving, videography and photography in Vancouver (with Terry Hua, Emmy-award winning videographer and wonderful instructor); Gloucester, MA; kelp beds in California; numerous dives in the Florida Keys; caverns and manatees near Crystal River, Florida; and dives in SE Asia, Thailand, Belize, and Bali. We have been studying marine biology and coral reef ecology with the inestimable Prof. Mel Cundiff at the University of Colorado, and taking courses in the Ecology of Fish, Ecosystem Ecology, Oceanography, Sustainable Development, and Environmental Science and Policy.  I have degrees in Physics, Sociology and Law, and Arleen, my wife holds a Ph.D. in Biology.  All trips involve experience and study of marine environments and local ecology and culture.   Currently trips are planned to Africa, Belize, Indonesia and other locations.  Contact me at jonmillerscuba@gmail.com.