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Since you're checking this website, you probably already know who we are.
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| Name: | Chris Bessenecker |
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| Rank: | Co-Captain | |
Personal Info.... |
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| Place of Birth: | Davenport, Iowa | |
| Interests: | Cliff diving, gator wrestling and macramé (he kids) | |
| Prior Cruising Experience: | Cruising the strip in downtown Davenport back in high school | |
| Favorite Nautical Term: | Flogging the glass | |
| Biggest Boating Blunder: | Unplanned man overboard drill | |
| Favorite Point of Sail: | Beam reach | |
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Favorite Activity While Cruising: |
Charting | |
| Serious Stuff... | ||
| Primary Occupation: | International Public Health Specialist | |
| Partial Work History: | Project Concern International, San Diego, CA (1995-2003) | |
| International Rescue Committee, Burigi Settlement, Tanzania (1994-1995) | ||
| Center for Environmental Resource Management, University of Texas, El Paso, Texas (1994) | ||
| U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) / Water and Sanitation for Health Project (WASH), Washington, D.C. (1993) | ||
| United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), Honduras (1992) | ||
| U.S. Peace Corps, Honduras (1988-1992) | ||
| Degrees: | Master of Public Health (M.P.H.), University of Texas, Health Science Center, El Paso, TX (1994) | |
| B.A. in Political Science and Sociology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA (1988) | ||
| Name: | Dana Schwartz |
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| Rank: | Co-Captain | |
Personal Info.... |
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| Place of Birth: | Los Angeles, California | |
| Interests: | Photography, animals, computers | |
| Prior Cruising Experience: | Weeklong trips to Catalina growing up | |
| Favorite Nautical Term: | Blue-footed booby (not exactly nautical, but it's a sea bird) | |
| Biggest Boating Blunder: | Spilling a pot of hot coffee on myself when a swell hit | |
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Favorite Activity While Cruising: |
Pointing out every fish, dolphin,
seal, turtle or whale (and many birds) I see to Chris |
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| Serious Stuff... | ||
| Primary Occupation: | Attorney (transactional) | |
| Partial Work History: | Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP, San Diego, CA (1999-2002) [see Daily Journal article about leaving job in Press Room] | |
| Hecht, Solberg, Robinson & Goldberg LLP, San Diego, CA (1998-1999) | ||
| U.S. District Court, Southern District of California (Presiding Magistrate Judge, Hon. Louisa S. Porter), San Diego, CA (1995-1997) | ||
| San Francisco Superior Court (Complex Civil Litigation Department, Hon. John E. Munter ), San Francisco, CA (1994) | ||
| Degrees: | J.D., University of California, Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco, CA (1995) | |
| B.A. in Psychology with a minor in Law, cum laude, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA (1992) | ||
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