SharkChase
Turn and face it.
Dayton raised me. Hawaiʻi is my home. My dad taught me that courage means walking straight toward what scares you. Now that lesson has me in the water with sharks, learning from the One Ocean team and helping build the future of ocean research and conservation.
The Origin
I grew up scared of sharks.
Growing up in Dayton, Ohio, my household lived on the Discovery Channel, and every year, Shark Week. I'd watch it with my father, Gerald, and we'd talk about our greatest fears. His was always the same: sharks.
My dad taught me to wear our fears and put on a badge of courage. He believed it isn't what happens to you that defines you, it's how you respond. That's the real testament of your character.
So when I got to Hawaiʻi, I went and swam with them, straight at my family's greatest fear. The first time one came close, my whole body told me to bolt. I held still. I stayed.
"Still afraid. Still scared. But I finally turned to face the shark."
That's what SharkChase is. It cuts both ways: the shark closing the distance, and the fear you keep swimming away from. I stopped swimming away. For my dad, Gerald.
"Sharks aren't the threat. Losing them is."
Up close, the fear flips into respect. They hold the whole ocean together. Protect the apex, and you protect everything beneath it.
Why it mattersWhat I do with One Ocean.
Operations, free-diving, research, and conservation on the North Shore of Oʻahu. Here's the work.
Underwater photography · One Ocean Diving
In motion
The ocean never holds still.
And neither do they. Real footage from the dives off the North Shore of Oʻahu.
Mission
The ocean is calling.
I'm answering.
I came up Navy, then a builder, now a new father. Now I'm learning to dive with sharks on the North Shore, building the systems behind the dives that protect them. Documenting all of it in the open.