Here’s Walt talking about his first dive. He’d gone to Alaska to watch the deep-sea divers work, maybe interview a few and write articles based on that experience. He did not expect to work as a diver for an entire summer, inspecting fishing traps and salvaging underwater wreckage. In this clip, Walt describes feeling […]
Deep Trouble
Walt’s Letters Home While Diving in Alaska — Spring of 1950
Cordova, AK Spring 1950 Dear Tiny [Rosalind Morey], Mom and Dad— Well, here we are at the cannery at Orca Bay about a mile out of Cordova. I can look out the window of our room at snow fields right over our heads on one hand and the sea not a hundred feet at our […]