My longtime friend and confidant, Dr. Robert G. Williscroft, has joined BestLife International here in Clarkston, Washington, as the company’s Chief Executive Officer. Robert will be working closely with me in an all-out effort to bring the company to profitability. To this end, we will be seeking some significant outside investment, and will be focusing on our Internet operations for the next few months.Dr. Williscroft served twenty-three years in the U.S. Navy and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). He commenced his service as an enlisted nuclear Submarine Sonar Technician, was selected for the Navy Enlisted Scientific Education Program, and graduated in 1969 from University of Washington in Marine Physics and Meteorology. He returned to nuclear submarines as the Navy’s first Poseidon Weapons Officer. Subsequently, he served as Navigator, and as Diving, Salvage & Saturation Diving Officer on both catamaran mother vessels for the Deep Submergence Rescue Vehicle, as Officer in Charge (OIC) of the Navy Saturation Diving School, and as OIC of the Test Operations Group out of the Submarine Development Group One in San Diego, conducting deep-ocean surveillance and data acquisition. In NOAA Dr. Williscroft directed diving operations throughout the Pacific and Atlantic. NOAA published his Doctoral dissertation, A Method for Protecting Scuba Divers from the Hazards of Contaminated Water, and distributed it around the world to interested ports and diving activities. As a certified diving instructor for NOAA, the National Association of Underwater Instructors (NAUI), and the Multinational Diving Educators Association (MDEA), he has taught over 3,000 individuals both basic and advanced SCUBA diving. He authored three diving books, developed the first NAUI drysuit course, developed advanced NOAA curricula for mixed gas and other specialized diving modes, and developed and taught a NAUI course on the Math and Physics of Advanced Diving. He also served three shipboard years in the high Arctic conducting scientific baseline studies, and thirteen months at the geographic South Pole in charge of National Science Foundation atmospheric research projects.After retiring in 1985, Dr. Williscroft served as CEO of an editing firm, and founded a publishing company. He sold the publishing firm to serve as Chief Staff Officer for a consortium of five marine industry related firms in San Diego. In 1994 he moved to Philadelphia to focus on writing, real estate, and the stock market. In 1997, he joined Morgan Stanley as a Series-7 stockbroker. Since 1999 Dr. Williscroft has been independent. He has written extensively on terrorism and related subjects. He is the author of a popular book on current events published in 2006 by Pelican Publishing, The Chicken Little Agenda – Debunking Experts’ Lies, now in its second printing, and a new children’s book series, The Starman Jones Series, in collaboration with Dr. Frank Drake, world famous director of the Carl Sagan Institute for the Study of Life in the Universe and the SETI Institute. In this series of delightful stories about Starman Jones, Space Pup, and Billy, Dr. Williscroft creates in children an intuitive understanding of many of the esoteric scientific concepts of Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, and other sciences.Dr. Williscroft is divorced and has one son who lives in Chicago. He received his B.Sc. in Oceanography and Meteorology from University of Washington in 1969, and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Engineering from California Coast University in 1981 and 1983, respectively.
