Michael Thomas Price was a sailor on a U.S. Navy Destroyer and a U.S. Navy frogman. He owned SCUBA stores and led SCUBA divers on trips throughout the world on many different boats. He was a crew member on schooners that sailed the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean. As a writer, he authored articles for saltwater fishing magazines, ghostwrote a memoir, A Hand on Your Shoulder by Eddie Douglas, and a historical fiction novel, Maritime Master in an Age of Peril. He enjoys saltwater fishing from a kayak in the bays of Texas.