Joe O’Loughlin is an author living close by his beloved Pacific Ocean in San Diego, California. He joined the U.S. Navy as a young man and spent several years at sea in the early 1970’s as a Surface Warfare Officer in the Western Pacific and Indian Oceans, where he came to love ships and the sea and visited many ports of call. Later, he joined the volunteer crew of the Star of India square sailing ship, and qualified to work aloft as a topman, He enjoys fiction writing, history, literature, movies and the outdoors.