He was dying to live out an adventure.
Stuck in a cubicle for 17 years—a database administrator in oil and gas—Doug Jackson, 62, risked everything to try something that “terrified” him by building his own submarine in 2000. But it so happened, this was just the beginning of his ocean adventures. Today, Jackson has stepped up his game.
The ultimate DIY, his new 74-foot junk-style boat, SV Seeker, embarked on her maiden voyage last year and in March finally reached her 10-years-in-the-making destination: the Gulf of Mexico where Jackson will live out his days. “I wanted to do something that scared me,” he told The Epoch Times. “I wanted to do something with my life, rather than just die in my cubicle. I wanted to get out and have an adventure.”…