The Motivational Story of Mel Fisher
Hay dyudes, today we're going to discuss one of the greatest MELs out there, MEL Fisher. Now, MEL Fisher was just your ordinary kid growing up. He was a country-man in Glen Park, Indiana, born in 1922 with nothing unusual to his name besides some big dreams. MEL wanted to become a treasure hunter, just like he saw Jim Hawkins and others do in the books he looked to for inspiration. But alas, Indiana isn't known for its sunken treasures, or oceans at all for that matter. And so MEL had to wait. But he was destined to aMELiorate his own present situation of boredom and not belonging, that was for sure. After graduating college, serving overseas as an Army Engineer, and moving from Indiana to Florida and California, MEL still hadn't forgotten his dream of diving and finding sunken treasure. Soon, he took some lessons, opened a small scuba shop (first in the world) (in addition to a chicken ranch) (the chicken ranch wasn't a new thing, the...