Jeff Strand:  

After graduating from high school I attended the University of Hawaii at Manoa where I did my undergraduate work in Marine Biology & my graduate work in Oceanography. I was able to work my way through college as a cliff diver & kept expenses down by living in a tree house that a friend of mine used as a vacation cabin. After graduating I took a research position studying the effects of tide flows & the possible nutrients they may carry into the cracks along the oceans hydrothermal vents hoping to explore the existence of a subsurface biosphere. It was great work that provided the added perk of seeing all I wanted of the world¿s tropical paradises. But after a few years it actually got a little old traveling all the time so I headed back to Hawaii & started up a new research facility studying the effects of ocean tides on Hawaii's coral reefs. I was out snorkeling o...Expand for more