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joined Ships of Discovery in its early months, leaving her beloved home in the New Mexico mountains to pursue her passion for underwater archaeology. Toni’s years of underwater field experience from all over the United States and the world has continued as she has pursued an interest the hull construcion of discovery-era ships. That fervor has led to her involvement with replica ships constructed in Brazil and to field directing the excavation of the La Salle shipwreck, La Belle, for the Texas Historical Commission. |
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| "My interest in underwater archaeology did not stem from a lifelong love of the sea and ships nor from a desire to do something useful with my life. Rather it grew from watching Lloyd Bridges in Sea Hunt. As a tomboy growing up in California, the weekly episodes represented escape and adventure of the most exotic kind imaginable. But thoughts of Sea Hunt faded as I grew. I entered college as a business major, and to fulfill a requirement for a class in the social sciences, I read Kroeber's Ishi. That lead to other classes in anthropology/archaeology, and by the time I finished my undergraduate degree in anthropology, my fascination with prehistoric California was strong. I would have pursued land archaeology as a career except for Sea Hunt. I jumped at the opportunity to take a scuba class in my senior year. After my first open water dive, I was hooked on scuba as a sport. Within a few months of becoming certified I visited Califomia's Channel Islands and saw my first shipwreck. Since then ships and the people who built them have captured my imagination and challenged my curiosity. The wrecks that mark their passage truly embody escape and adventure." |  |
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"Adventure is danger and discomfort when viewed from the complacency of reflection."
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