Once I had learned most of the do's and don'ts involved in wreck diving, (around 1981) I gradually started exploring deeper wrecks. As time went on, people I knew were no longer content listening to verbal descriptions of what I saw, and started asking for pictures. Ok I thought, this shouldn't be any more difficult than taking pictures of my kids, so I figured it was time to take the next step and buy an underwater camera.

Had I known then what I was getting into, I might have saved myself a lot of money and frustration by sticking to the verbal descriptions. But it's since become gratifying and adds purpose to something I enjoy doing. It's also challenging.

A photograph from Dan Bailey showing Peter Ording with his camera on the Hokoyu Maru at Truk.


Ording in 1982 in Florida shortly after
getting my first camera. Many wrecks lie along the coast that were sunk by U-Boats.