Photography Speaker (2018)

Andrew is a long time diver, photographer and writer.  Originally from the USA he found the ocean while working in the world of financial derivatives.  After a move to Guam he devoted himself full time to the ocean, helping many new divers fall in love with the water while working as an instructor and enthusiastic underwater photographer.  After much encouragement from his friends and students, he devoted himself full time to taking and sharing his images and writing about diving.  

His first professional success came when he won first place in every category he entered in the Asia Pacific Photo Challenge.  Following this he was asked to provide photos for magazine work, and shortly after was writing the articles to go along with them.  He has since written over twenty articles for six different dive and travel magazines.  He has had a number of cover shots in these magazines, the most published being the cover of the May 2017 issue of Chinese National Geographic.  Along with the magazine work came invitations to speak at major dive shows across Asia.  To this day Andrew is a regular speaker at major dive events; having spoken at many shows from Beijing to Singapore and pretty much everywhere in between.

The next logical step for him was to write books on diving and adventure travel.  The first of these was Legends Beneath the Waves Vol. 1:  Truk Lagoon. This book was very well received and its success has led to an additional six books in that series being committed to.  Aside from the shipwreck books, Andrew began to also write dive guides.  His guides focus on small areas and seek to take the reader diving in that location in their mind.  The first of these is Let’s Go Dive Guide to Anilao.  Between books he still can still be found teaching around the Pacific, as he is a much in demand coach for underwater photography.  Currently he is working on the next books in these two series while living in Beijing with his awesome wife Dalice and two daughters Elly and EJ “Doomy”.