A Rescue Diver and Dive Master, Brian is a decorated member of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxilliary for his Search and Rescue efforts on the Alaskan Airlines crash off the coast of Ventura, California. However, his life began far from the California coast and the boat he now lives on. Brian grew up raising livestock and breaking horses on a farm in the wooded valleys of Missouri with his younger brother and two sisters. His father and mother were natives of New York who bravely abandoned their city lives to embrace a rural lifestyle in the middle of the Ozarks. Early on Brian joined organizations like the Missouri Spleological Society for cave exploration and other volunteer rescue organizations that have lead to his current participation in coastal programs like Santa Monica's Heal the Bay and Kelp Reforestation projects. As an actor he's starred in independent features and been written up in Variety magazine as best cast in Bill Fishman's "Dinner with Jimi" playing the role of John Lennon. In Rich Brunton's "Mosaics," Brian accepted the Silver Medal for Best Dramatic feature at Houston's Worldfest 2002. In an ongoing effort, he's starring in a film based on his own hitchhiking journal across the United States and Canada scheduled to be finished and ready for festivals in 2006. Oh yeah, he dances a hell of a Tango.