About Why Am I Alive:
While diving for sea urchins near the Channel Islands, a great white shark attacks Paul Woyak, forever changing his life. More and more unforgettable near death experiences keep happening to this salty sea dog, until he has to face and confront what really happened to him while diving within the big blue. For years, the author would tell these stories around the campfire and social gatherings and was led to dig deeper by writing this book where he finds the answer to life’s biggest question “Why Am I Alive?”
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Author Bio:
Paul Woyak has been a water explorer all his life – everything from lake swimming, to ocean diving, kayak fishing, wake boarding, Sea Doo riding, but especially surfing, lots and lots of surfing!
He still finds time to take an ocean swim at Surf Beach once a week. It’s sharky water, but he doesn’t have time for anything else. Taking his grandkids surfing and skin diving is how he stays young!
Paul grew up in Wisconsin, moved out to California and saw the Pacific Ocean and that was it, he never looked back.
He went through the Marine Tech Diving Program at Santa Barbara City College, but lost the ability to go deep due to “surfers ear.” Subsequently he landed a job as a commerical fisherman diving for sea urchins out of Santa Barbara.
Sea Urchin diving paid well and he had a growing family to raise, so diving the Channel Islands for money became his new career. It was exhilarating, but it also proved to be treacherous and unforgiving. He writes about the near death experiences he survives in his book, “Why Am I Alive.”