In this video I answer some of questions commonly asked by viewers. BIO (Really need to get a website working...)
Most of my early career was spent in IT. Initially in Mainframe operations (where I met my wife Vicki 28 years ago) and then moving on to TCP/IP and Ethernet networking. After that, a bit of time working as an Unix system administrator and after that a C and Java developer. During this period I loved playing all the old Infocom games so I also developed my own interpreted programming language JACL for creating Interactive Fiction (
Around this time my friend Paul and I did our Open Water and Advanced SCUBA diving tickets with PADI and began our fascination with exploring the underwater world.
I moved to Dangar Island in 1999 which made boating a part of daily life. We moved to the island because it was cheap to buy and it is cheap because there is no way on or off the island without getting in a boat. Commuter boats get a hard life living on the water so keeping them running became a necessity.
After building a couple of houses on the island (including my own) I went on to work as a deckhand on Sydney Harbour to get my hours up to get my Coxswain ticket. After completing the Coxswain course at Newcastle TAFE I started working as a Boating Service Officer (BSO) for NSW Maritime, our local waterways authority. I filled this role on Port Hacking, Botany Bay, Sydney Harbour and the Hawkesbury river for five years. As a BSO you do on-water patrols for both compliance and investigate boat accidents. I’d like to go through some of my old accident investigations as videos a bit like Air Crash Investigation for boats.
Next I worked as an eResearch Analyst for Intersect, a not-for-profit IT Company that provided bespoke IT solutions for university researchers in NSW. This involved working with a variety of research disciplines such as Medicine, Environment and Astronomy.
It was during my years working at Intersect I started making the YouTube videos after enjoying Eric the Car Guy’s videos.
I left Intersect to open a mechanical workshop with my friend Arn where we serviced cars, bikes and the occasional boat for friends. During this time I finished a mechanical apprenticeship in order to become a licensed Light Vehicle Mechanic.
When I purchased a steel trawler to restore, Arn and I rented our workshop out to another mechanic to run his own business and for the first time I began running the YouTube channel full time.
My future plans for the channel are to use the trawler to explore the shipwrecks that scatter the Australian coastline. These videos will cover cruising to the locations, researching and diving on the wrecks and maintaining the boat and equipment was we go.
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