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Brandi Mueller – Underwater Photographer and Author of The Airplane Graveyard

In this podcast I chat with Brandi Mueller.  Brandi began her diving career at the age of 15 as a foreign exchange student in New Zealand.  When she went to graduate school in Florida, she longed for the opportunity to travel the world and scuba dive.  Soon she discovered Action Quest and was required to become a diving instructor to get the job.  She did, and the rest is history.

Brandi taught and traveled the British Virgin Islands with Action Quest.  When her gig in the BVI ended, she was hired onto the Kona Aggressor Yacht.  There she learned underwater photography and honed her skills by learning from photo pro’s and guests.  When she returned to her graduate studies – this time in Hawaii – she worked for a dive center and led exotic dive trips through the store.  Eventually, Brandi landed a job captaining a ferry on a US Army base in Kwajalein Atoll.  There she documented an underwater graveyard of over 150 World War II US military aircraft.  As an Ikelite Ambassador and photo pro, Brandi used her photography skills and has just published her first book entitled The Airplane Graveyard: The Forgotten WWII Warbirds of Kwajalein Atoll.

Items in this Podcast

• Learning to dive as a foreign exchange student
  
• Becoming a scuba instructor in college
  
• Instructing and traveling the world
  
• Photo skills aboard Kona Aggressor
  
• Favorite diving locations
  
• The military history of Truk (Chuuk) Lagoon and Kwajalein Atoll
  
• Solo diving with a Whale Shark
  
• Advice for divers

Resources

Action Quest

Kona Aggressor

Ikelite Ambassador

The Airplane Graveyard: The Forgotten WWII Warbirds of Kwajalein Atoll

Sponsor

Special thanks to our episode sponsor Aggressor Fleet

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