Discovery and Exploration
"To explore is to live, for life itself is a journey into the unknown." – Amelia Earhart
As an avid scuba diver, in the past I have helped organise and run one of the world’s largest underwater photography competitions, The Australasian Underwater Photographer of the Year, run by the South Pacific Divers Club of which I was a committee member for 3 years. I have been on teams that have conducted searches for, and discovered, shipwrecks in New South Wales and Tasmania. I have designed and built my own closed circuit mixed gas rebreather and planned and executed deep dives with it, using heliox gas, to explore shipwrecks off the Australian coast. I have been involved in archaeological excavations with international teams run by the Greek Ministry of Antiquities on the islands of Kythera and Antikythera in southern Greece from 2009-2014, and have also been a part of the Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities team excavating the famous Mentor shipwreck on the island of Kythera for three seasons from 2011-2013. A bucket-list adventure was diving with Great White sharks at the Neptune Islands in 2022.
My Fitness Adventures
I’ve tried to keep fit throughout my life. I started going to the gym back in the 80’s, the heyday of bodybuilding, movies like Conan the Barbarian, songs like Physical, and the Life Be In It campaign, really kicked off the 80’s fitness craze I guess. We really had no idea what we were doing but it was fun.
In 2016 I saw a Crossfit competition at the Wollongong Entertainment Center and decided to give it a go. Following on from that I dieted and trained to compete in a number of amateur bodybuilding events, taking out a number of trophies culminating in a 5th place in my age group at the Australian Nationals in Melbourne. I even managed to meet Arnold, surprisingly twice within the same month, once at Gold’s gym in LA and again at the Melbourne Fitness Expo.
While I no longer compete in bodybuilding I still like to keep fit by going to the gym and I’m currently enjoying Brazilian Jiu-jitsu with Life BJJ
