[Captain Ahab Jr]

I'm still an Aquanaut, read every Jacques Cousteau and Hans Hass book as a child and most of my childhood was spent in or under the water

Can still vividly remember pedalling my tricycle on the bottom of a pool from the shallow end, down the slope and all the way to the end of the pool at the deep end

Best job I ever had was teaching snorkelling at a Club Med in north west Mexico

Other than the obvious fringe benefits the most satisfying part of the job was teaching scared/nervous swimmers and non-swimmers how to be relaxed face down in the water and then taking them out into the sea snorkelling to show them a whole new exciting underwater world

I'm totally relaxed in and under the water, after a very heavy night of debauchery I fell asleep snorkelling on one trip, woke up when the waves gently nudged my head against the shoreline

Also, nearly drifted off again when laying down on the bottom of a swimming pool trying to run a scuba tank to empty to see how the regulator felt