Chesapeake Bay Lighthouse Project

The Blue Beast



The Blue Beast (Beast) is our 1991 Volkswagon Westfalia camper. We're the original owners and have spent weeks at a time traveling and camping in it from Georgia to up-state New York.


The Blue Beast, March 2000

In Elk Neck State Park, March 2000





A Computer Diver - What else?


Diving




Before purchasing our sloop, Moondance, we were very heavily into scuba diving. Our addiction to compressed air lead us to quit our jobs in 1990 and spend over a year backpacking around the world - including a 9 month stint in the Cayman Islands working as dive instructors. In addition to warm waters from Central America to the Caribbean, Australia, and Thailand, we've dived numerous Atlantic wrecks from North Carolina to New York as well as a kelp forest off California. Alas, passions change and we do very little diving now.

 

Matthew and Gail off Turks and Caicos




Matthew   Gail





  • Matthew's Dive Log (This may take a few seconds to load)

     

    "In most of the diving training during the 1950s and 1960s, there was a consistent 50% failure rate in professional diving courses. This meant that some sort of standard was being applied. In comparison, there is little or no failure rate in many of the recreational diving courses now being held - suggesting that few or no standards are really being applied, other than the ability to pay."

    (Diving and Subaquatic Medicine: Edmonds, Lowry, and Pennefeather)