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Author Robbie Johnson is an ocean-going sailor, aircraft and helicopter pilot, SCUBA diver and sport parachutist. He gained his FAA Private Pilot’s license at the age of 16, and his Commercial Pilot’s license at the age of eighteen. He is licensed to fly both fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters and worked as a crop-dusting pilot. He is a sport parachutist and was a member of the first Parachute Club of America’s chapter in Florida. He has lived aboard ocean-going sailboats for the past thirty-five years, twenty of those years outside the United States, and presently makes his year ’round home aboard one of the most famous sailboats ever designed, a steel gaff-rigged Tahiti Ketch. Robbie earned his Bachelor’s degree from Mercer University, Atlanta/Macon, GA, and his Master’s degree from California State University, Dominguez Hills ((Los Angeles) graduating with highest academic distinction (Summa cum laude), and was elected to Phi Kappa Phi, our nation’s oldest and most prestigious academic honor society. Robbie has lived an adventurous life that includes being one of two principal divers who recovered four priceless bronze cannons from a depth of 120 feet off Terceira Island, Azores, for the Portuguese government. He was also a principal diver in an Oxford University-sponsored expedition to find the lead coffin of Sir Frances Drake, off Portobelo, Republic of Panama. Queen Elizabeth’s husband, Prince Philip, wished the expedition luck, but said he preferred to let sleeping dogs lie.
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