Kursk Submarine Disaster and My Friend

kursk underwater hole photo

  ”It’s immense,” Degener said of the Kursk, which was photographed in the Barents Sea. Updated June 24, 2023 I met my best friend Don Degener when we were in first grade at Graden School in Parkville, Missouri in 1958.  We crossed paths occasionally for some years after that playing together at school and in … Read more

Back to the Philippines

Subic Bay Seascape

June 29, 2018:  For the last 10 years I’ve lived in China and in South Korea for a year just prior to that.  The mission was to teach the local high school students planning to study overseas various subject matter including ESL, English Literature, Academic English, Psychology, Philosophy, Economics, Business Studies, and Humanities.  Fortunately, the … Read more

About Joe

Massive School of Fish

Hi everyone. Welcome to my diving website.   As a boy, I loved the water and spent all my spare time during the summer at the pool and was on my high school and college swimming teams. Living in the American Midwest I did a bit of lake snorkeling, but at that time scuba diving was … Read more