I was born in NH in 1942 but moved to VT. I was always interested in the water. My father and I built several wooden boats in our basement, one of which we water skiied behind for years. I had my Amateur Radio License at the age 14. I obtained my EE degree at UVM, graduating in 1964, and did further graduate study back in NH at UNH. During this time I also got involved with cave exploring, rock climbing, mountaineering, motorcycling, and scuba diving. I got a good taste of the ocean with a summer job at Wood's Hole Oceanographic Institute and traveled out west by car several times.
In 1966 I started work at what was then the Navy Underwater Sound Lab, in New London, CT, working with antennas and communications for submarines. As part of my work I traveled all over the world, from the Arctic Pack ice to Antarctica. I added canoing, sailing, cross-country skiing, and winter mountaineering to my hobbies, but also started toying with inductive "cave radios" for locating specific points in caves on the earth's surface. I had my first working device in 1977 which slowly evolved into the equipment being used on this expedition. Access to the Lab's test equipment really helped. I finally got married. My wife Bonnie understood what she was in for as her father was also an engineer! I retired early from the Lab in 1996 but continue to consult part time.
I currently split my time (when not consulting) between sailing, ham radio, motorcycling, mountain biking, caving, climbing the high points of each state (2 easy ones to go!), crosscountry skiing, Mexican cave expeditions, and radiolocations in caves.
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