About George Landgrabe

George developed an interest diving after seeing a TV program called Sea Hunt and the Jacques Cousteau movie, Silent World. As an avid competitive swimmer at Fenn College in Cleveland, he already had fins and a mask. After talking to a sporting goods salesman at a local event, George promptly took things to the next level by investing $150 to become the proud owner of a tank, regulator, weight belt, depth gauge, and knife.

It wasn’t long before George found a group of like-minded people who had formed a dive club. One of the members took him through a check-out session at a pool, and then northern Ohio’s newest diver was cleared to join the group when they dove on a sunken oil tanker in Lake Erie.

One look at that hulking steel wreck at the bottom of the lake, and he was hooked on diving.

George was a fixture of the Great Lakes diving community for the next two decades until a job transfer brought him to the mecca of diving in the United States — Florida.

Since that move south in the mid-1970s, George has had the good fortune to dive coastal areas and springs throughout the Sunshine State. He’s been on dive boats from the Bahamas to the South Pacific, and everywhere in between. Some of his best stories come from searching for gold with famed treasure hunter Mel Fisher.

George has spent a lifetime exploring reefs and wrecks. It’s a colorful world only accessible to those who dared to follow in his footsteps. But now Scuba Pioneer gives everyone an opportunity to take a virtual trip around the world and under the surface with someone who has been in the sport since the days when double-hose regulators dominated the industry.

Enjoy!