Rick Saterstad

Born and raised in Michigan, Rick has spent most of his life on, in or around the water. He met his wife Deanna (who also assists in the dive business) in 1993. They decided to get married while on vacation in Mexico and after a brief ceremony on the beach, came back to Michigan and within a few years moved to the nautical town of Marine City where they now reside.

Rick's first exposure to SCUBA was in the early 1980s. Yet, power boating, offshore boat racing and general time constraints kept most of his activities above water. In recent years however, the SCUBA bug took hold and appears incurable.

With backgrounds in various entrepreneurial fields such as finance and web design, Rick decided to throw away his white collar for neoprene and latex instead. He jumped into the dive business about a year ago with Dive Rite and hasn't looked back since.

While Rick loves diving the warm Florida waters, Michigan is where Rick spends most of his time underwater. The Great Lakes offer anything from 1800s era tugs, schooners and early steamers to more recent freighters and even WWII era airplanes. In the winter months, ice diving the frozen lakes or drift diving beneath 1000 foot freighters in the St. Clair River between Lakes Huron and St. Clair is common.

Rick is also becoming active in a series of projects through the Noble Odyssey Foundation which includes not only researching and diving on shipwrecks, but also ancient shorelines, riverbeds, sinkholes, and even former waterfalls (Huron Ridge). All from a time when great lakes water levels we're as much as 400 feet lower than they are today.

Rick covers the midwest region for Dive Rite and enjoys diving with local dive shops while in town.

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