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Linda Collison has been a nurse, a professional skydiving instructor, a certified scuba diver, and a volunteer firefighter, and is an avid sailor. Together with her husband, Bob Russell, she has sailed thousands of miles aboard Topaz, their 36-foot sloop, whose home port is Hawaii. They also served three weeks as crew aboard Endeavour, a replica of Captain James Cook's eighteenth-century ship. Linda has published articles, essays, short fiction, and guidebooks.