How do get into diving and underwater photography?
That is kind of a fun story. I started my diving career actually as a young man growing up in California cleaning swimming pools a long, long time ago. But soon after that I went to Israel. Because of opportunity and faith I ended up opening probably the very first diving center in Sharm El Sheik [Sinai, Egypt] in 1971. Because I was there and many others were not, I had the opportunity to meet some impressive and outstanding people who came to do stories about Sharm. In 1972 a very young underwater photographer by the name of David Doubilet got his first assignment for National Geographic Magazine. Since then he became maybe the most famous underwater photographer in the world. I was his guide in Sharm El Sheik and I took him around. It ended up being a cover story for National Geographic. I did not have a camera then, but he had about ten with him and he said, why don’t you just take a camera and start taking pictures from me. So I had the benefit of learning from a very talented and
