Art is a senior Dive-Instructor in the Waterfront Dive Center family having become a NAUI Instructor in 1974 (#3795) at the Rockport Massachusetts ITC. While working winters in the Caribbean, Art founded Northern Divers in 1976 and soon became introduced to the extraordinary history and archaeology of Lake Champlain. Art co-founded the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum in 1984 and directed dozens of nautical archaeology projects and became a leading voice in advocating for the public value and preservation of shipwrecks. Working in partnership with the Vermont Division for Historic Preservation, Art helped establish the Lake Champlain Underwater Historic Preserve program in 1986.

Art has served as Safety Diver for the NOAA Hydrolab, Divemaster for the multi-year Azores Shipwreck Survey’s, Project Director/Divemaster for the Hudson River Shipwreck Verification Project, and dozens of shipwreck documentation projects and field schools. He is currently an Affiliated Scholar at the Institute of Nautical Archaeology at Texas A& M University, A Research Fellow at the Clements Library at the University of Michigan, Principal Investigator of the Spitfire Management Project and an active first-responder with the Ferrisburgh Fire Department. Art continues to work as a Divemaster and an Instructor in the WDC’s Dive