Rod Macdonald is a man of many talents. For 30 years, he was a solicitor and still had time to dive into the deepest darkest waters to explore shipwrecks – and then write books about his adventures.
Then he turned 50 and decided to make his writing and diving career a full-time job. The Stonehaven resident has nine books under his belt, including Dive Truk Lagoon and Dive Scapa Flow, and now has another thing to celebrate: Being inducted into the prestigious Explorers Club of New York. He will join some of the world’s greatest explorers such as Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Sir Edmund Hillary.
I feel truly honoured to be part of this and I never dreamt that I would. It’s explorers from all different types of disciplines. So I do subsea stuff but there are mountaineers, Arctic explorers – James Cameron who directed Titanic, he is in it, he got the record for the deepest manned submersible dive – so it’s a stunning honour for “Rod from Stoney”.
