RESUME
1963-2000 - WORKED FOR THE FOGEL/JORDON COMMERCIAL REFRIGERATOR COMPANY (WWW.FOGEL-GROUP.COM). FOR NEARLY 40 YEARS AS VICE PRESIDENT OF INTERNATIONAL MARKETING, I ESTABLISHED LICENSING AND JOINT VENTURE MANUFACTURING OPERATIONS IN EUROPE, SOUTH AMERICA, ASIA AND RUSSIA.
1966 - Sailed a 30-foot Folkboat sloop single-handed through the South Pacific.
1968 - Motorcycled from Alaska to South America for one year.
1970 - Paddled a kayak from NY to Miami to film water pollution on the Intra Coastal Waterway. Wrote "Forty Days and Forty Nights: The Destruction of Our Eastern Seaboard". Lobbied for the Clean Water Act. Wrote 5-part series, "Our Polluted Waterways" for the North American Newspaper Alliance which appeared in newspapers throughout the U.S.
1971 - Toured the Rhine and Rhone Rivers through Germany and France by kayak to report on water conditions in Europe.
1972 - Kayaked through the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River to report on water conditions and lobby for controls on outfitters.
1973 - Discovered and lived with Stone Age tribe on the Omo River in Ethiopia. Carried the Explorer's Club flag on this expedition made in cooperation with Smithsonian Institute.
1975 - Explored underwater caves and caverns of Rio Camuy in Puerto Rico.
1979 - Filmed and wrote about the Nicaraguan Civil War for the New York Times New Syndicate after living with the Sandinistas for three months. Wrote "NOTES FROM THE FRONT, a 3-part series."
1986 - Led Maroni River expedition to film and study the Guyana tribes in the Amazon Basin for film documentary,"Twilight of the Primitive". Carried the Explorer's Club flag.
1986 - Saved the life of a young woman whose car went off a bridge into 40 feet of ice water on Christmas Eve. Awarded commendation from President Reagan. Nominated for the Carnegie Hero Award.
1987 - Explored by kayak the Great Bend and Triger Leap Gorges on the Yangtze River in China. Carried the Explorer's Club flag on this Sino-American expedition to site a hydro-electric power plant. Contributed to book: "Riding the Dragon's Back: Down the Yangtze River".
1990 - Paddled kayak from NY to FLA to sruvey and review water quality conditions along the East Coast. Lobbied for the Beach Bill requiring uniform water quality standards across the U.S.
1991 - Paddled kayak from Seattle to San Diego to survey and review water quality conditions along the West Coast.
1992 - Paddled kayak from St. Paul, MO to New Orleans, LA on the Mississippi River for two months to survey and review water quality conditions.
1993 - Awarded the Audubon Society's Golden Osprey Award for environmental awareness.
1994 - Participated in Academy of Natural Science study of the Zebra Mussel on the Volga River, Russia.
1995 - 2000 Worked as a Screen Actors Guild Actor in 10 major motion pictures including Rocky V, Dead Poets Soceity, Crimes and Misdemeanors and Passenger 57.
2000 -Supported Delaware University ANTARCTIC Expedition to study genetic effects of Crill in cold water environments.
2001 -Supported Yukon River Expedition from Whitehall to the Bering Sea for the purpose of studying water quality.
2002 - Attended Sea School and Coast Guard training to recieve 100-TON Merchant Marine License. PRESENTLY UPGRADING LICENSE TO "ALL SEAS" AND INCREASING SEA TIME ABOARD CRUISE SHIPS FOR POSITION AS CAPTAIN.
2003 - Acquired pilot's license and became a Basic Flight Instructor. TRAINED OVER 300 STUDENTS IN THE FLYING INFLATABLE BOAT.
2004 - Awarded the Explorer of the Year Award from the Philadelphia Chapter. Currently sit on Board of Directors as Chairman of Environmental Affairs and Global Water Quality.
2005 - Gold Medal Winner of the USLA (United States Lifesaving Association's) Mid-Atlantic Regional Lifeguard Championships: 2 KM Beach Run, Ocean Swim, Surfboat Race and Paddle Board Competition. Silver Medal Winner of USLA National Lifeguard Championships: American Iron Man and the Surfboat Race.
2006 -INVITED TO COMPETE IN THE INTERNATIONAL LIFESAVING COMPETITIONS AT MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA, REPRESENTING THE USA IN THE IRONMAN Race, Won the Gold in the National Lifeguard Championships in Huntington Beach, CA for the Surfboat Competition and the American Ironman.
2009 -Nominated for The Explorers Club Medal for work on Amazon River Survey.
2010 -Nominated for The Lowell Thomas Award for Saving a Stone Age Tribal Group in Ethiopia.
2010 -Nominated for the CNN HERO AWARD for Environmental Work in Water Quality Worldwide for 40 years.
2010 -Organizes event to obtain resources for help of the country of haiti,for destruction caused by earthquake. Called "AN EVENING WITH THE CAPTAIN
FOR HAITIAN RELIEF".
