Bill Stone

Bill Stone, Seaduction’s Online Editor, was born under the Pisces constellation in Florida and soon became a “water baby.”  His early years  were spent in or on the water -- except for the summer of 1975 when “Jaws” came out.  Mom took him to the beach on the weekends where Dad taught him to body-surf and dig up sand fleas for surf fishing.   Late Summer they would skin dive for bugs (Florida lobster) out of a canoe.  He has also  has logged 100+ hours being drug behind the  family boat looking for bugs the honest way (pre-GPS).  Bill swam on his high school team and worked as a lifeguard while attending the University of Florida where he first  heard stories of cave diving.  In 1999 Bill finally took an Open Water scuba course and was mad he had resisted Scuba so long.  In 2005 he found a small ad for a Master Diver University which led to Mike Ange’s first Master Diver University (MDU) class.  Since then Bill has earned Cave, Trimix, and Instructor certifications.  Recently, he was selected to be one of six divers trained to remove explosives for the USNS Vandenberg project, which happy was not needed.

Bill left AT&T after 13 years as an engineer and quality manager.  He is now happily employed as Seaduction’s Online Editor, an instructor,  and as an independent sales representative for various scuba equipment manufacturers (Chammyz, Deep Down Dive, Faber, Green Force, Seac, SI-Tech, Uemis) across Florida.

When Bill must be on land he prefers autocross racing and adventure travel.  Buy him a beer sometime and he’ll tell you all about his adventures backpacking through Europe and hiking through the Belize jungle to sleep in a Mayan cave (where he first learned of assassin bugs). His motto: Bill Stone is not a tourist.