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Dottie Frazier
Karen Straus was born in Southern California and grew up in Nairobi, Kenya. She started diving in 1968 after taking a scuba certification course in college. She was among the first handful of women...view moreKaren Straus was born in Southern California and grew up in Nairobi, Kenya. She started diving in 1968 after taking a scuba certification course in college. She was among the first handful of women certified as scuba instructors, earning her Los Angeles County instructor certification in 1970. For many years she taught swimming, life-saving, and skin and scuba diving in Orange County, California. She also began writing about and photographing marine life for dive magazines and books. She spent the next 20 years in Montana, Maine, Chicago and New York working as a newspaper reporter and photographer, a food writer and editor, and a writer and field producer for underwater and nature television programming. Karen is a long-time officer of the San Diego Underwater Film Exhibition. She was inducted into the Women Divers Hall of Fame in 2011. In 2017 she was the co-author of Immersion: 75 Years of Adventure and Discovery, about the invention of the
Aqua Lung regulator. In 2018 she was a contributor to Ocean Metaphor, Unexpected Life Lessons From the Ocean. She is a contributing editor to Dive Training magazine.view less
Books by Dottie Frazier
Trailblazer: The Extraordinary Life of Diving Pioneer Dottie Frazier