Hi it's me... Timmy

This is a construction site and is a work in progress.
More to come as I think of it.
I wanted to give my customers a little insight into who I am.

                                                         Owner

                                             Licensed Nature Guide

                         United States Coast Guard, Licensed Captain

       Surfrider Foundation, Cocoa Beach Chapter, Founding Chair

                       Florida East Coast Aquatic Preserve, Board Member

                                Cave and Cavern Diver, Certified

                                           NITROX Diver, Certified

                    Hyperbaric Recompression Chamber, Certified

                                                CPR Certification

                                                  Fully insured

I am a 5th generation Floridian.

I know Old Florida and take you there during our expeditions.

My childhood and adult life has been spent exploring the lagoon and ocean world.

I have explored every aspect of the Florida marine environment.

From diving with large whales in the mid Atlantic

to deep wreck diving with 12' Manta Rays off the Florida coast.

GOTO>"Minke"

I have explored the underwater cave systems that are part of the Florida aquifer.

Exploring the 1715 and 1733 Spanish Ship wreck sites off of Florida's coast was my main interest for many years.

GOTO>Early Spanish Explorer Ship Wreck story)

I have to admit,

Horseshoe crabs

give me the

    heebie jeebies...

(ever since I was a little boy).

Whoa... I think I just got a goose bump thinking about it !

Why would you trust me to take your loved ones and place them into kayaks and then paddle into the wild with all those creatures of the lagoon ?

 Recovering Space Shuttle Rockets

      For many years I was a recovery diver on NASA's
Space Shuttle.

GOTO> Nasa Rocket Recovery Operations Link

    This is the

"Most Dangerous Job" in the space program

next to the astronaut flights
It is pretty cool to see this in the IMAX theater at the
Kennedy Space Center.
After the Solid Rocket Boosters have done their job. My job was to recover the boosters in the Atlantic Ocean.
This is a shot of us installing a 1200 lbs plug into the
booster rocket nozzle at 120' depth.
We have done this in seas approaching 30' in height.
You can't call in sick on this job !

Sinking large artificial fishing reefs by setting explosive charges was just one of the many things I have done in the deep ocean.

GOTO> Nasa Artificial Reef

  Worlds Largest Parachutes

      The Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Boosters (SRB) after flight to near orbit are splashed down in the ocean using the worlds largest parachutes. Prior to recovery and towing back to the Kennedy Space Center we had to cut away the chutes and reel them onto the recovery ships.

        The above shows the parachute risers that needed cutting prior

        to the reeling in of the parachutes. The red floats are used to keep the million dollar chutes from sinking when we cut the risers free.

The riser group on the left has been cut. Center and to the right the risers still have the parachute attached.
Look how the floats are pulled down.

You had to be alert.

If you cut the wrong riser a very expensive chute would sink into 3000' feet of water.
I used to worry of getting entangled.

Cool stuff.

                           Very cool video of a Shuttle SRB Flight.

                                           GOTO> Space Shuttle Flight

              Space Shuttle Challenger OV-099

A unpleasant aspect of my career was the ocean recovery.

9 months at sea.

GOTO> Space Shuttle Challenger OV-099

  Space Shuttle Columbia  OV-102

GOTO> Space Shuttle Columbia OV-102

Roll out.

    Orbiter Processing Facility #2.
January 2003

That's me lower right with the white shirt.

I had the honor to prepare this historic vehicle for her last flight.

She was a beautiful bird.

                                               Go explore !