[GH85Carrera]

One of my friends that I got to know in Hawaii was in the Navy on a nuclear sub. He was a black man with VERY dark skin. He was single and had no bills except buying his toys. He would deploy for 6 months at a time and they would stay under for months at a time. He never had the slightest clue as to what part of the ocean they were in. They would sometimes come into port and he did not know until they opened the hatch if it was going to be bone chilling cold or tropical hot.

He was into photography and I met him at the base photography hobby shop. He had the first Hasselblad I ever saw in person. We would go out around the island and shoot photos, mostly of girls in bikinis but some landscapes and lots of sunsets. That is what hoked me on photography.

The funniest part to me was I was out and about all the time and totally tanned. He would come out of a sub for 6 months and this very dark black man got sunburned. He for sure did not get pink or blistered, but he said it was a little painful. A white man that was without a tan or sunscreen likely would have been severely sunburned. Since I spent most of the day outside I was sunburn proof. Now I go see the dermatologist every 6 months and get spots burned off.