Diving is Bill’s “second” career.  His first career was that of classroom teacher for thirty-four years.  Thirty-two of those years were spent at St. Cloud State University where he taught and served as Chairperson of the Department of Industrial Studies.  He earned his PhD from Iowa State University in 1971.  He earned his Open Water certification in 1990.  Bill has been a consistent MSD diver since June 25, 1991 when he attended his first Fun Dive (Serpent Lake).  That dive was his officially-logged dive number 11 – the attention he pays his dive log is both obsessive and obnoxious.  But, he does have a really complete and up-to-date dive log.

In addition to his Divemaster certification (earned in 2003), Bill has completed PADI Specialties in Wreck Diving, Nitrox, Equipment Repair, and … probably others. 

Since retiring from teaching in 1997, Bill has “immersed” himself in his second (and favorite) career -- diving.  His diving destinations include: the Cuyuna mine pits, each of the five Great Lakes, the Caribbean islands of Grand Cayman, Little Cayman, Cayman Brac, the Bay Islands of Honduras (Roatan and Utila), Bonaire, and – a real favorite – the island of Cozumel.  He has also dived some of the beautiful waters of the Pacific -- Truk, Palau, Pohnpei, and Kosrae of the western Pacific and in the waters off each of the islands of Hawaii and Maui in the state of Hawaii.  Bill’s fins have also pushed him through some of the waters of Italy, Greece, and Turkey in the Tyrrhenian and Aegean Seas.  He claims that there are other waters to experience and that if ever all are dived, they can each be dived again.

When asked for a favorite dive site locally or internationally, he will tell you that HIS favorite site is anywhere MSD has a scheduled or spur-or-the-moment dive; that it doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm or if the entry is red mud or the gunwale of a six-pack boat in Cozumel.  If MSD is going there, Bill wants to be there too!