About Us

R&R Divers Inc. was founded for the purpose of educating, inspiring, and motivating people through the story of Mel Fisher. For the past six years we have presented and spoken to clubs, businesses, educational audiences, religious groups, and other organizations about the greatest treasure hunter in the world. Perhaps the foremost optimist of our time, Mel Fisher overcame unrelenting obstacles and hardships in pursuit of his dream to discover treasure.

As an employee and participant in Mel Fisher’s organization, Rick Daynes has engaged in every aspect of modern day treasure hunting. It is through his experience and study of Mel Fisher that brings this message to life. The passion and romance that encompasses this story is conveyed through one who has experienced just a little of what has inspired millions.

The Ultimate Adventurer

Whether searching ancient Spanish galleons, being lost in a tropical jungle, prowling underwater caves at night in search of lobsters, or snowboarding off precipitous mountain cliffs, Rick Daynes has been involved in some sort of adventure his entire life.

As a child his favorite TV program was not a cartoon. It was Jacque Cousteau’s stories of undersea life. He loved the sea and ocean adventures and made sea life a study. Being a solid surfer, it was meant to be that he would graduate from the Hawaiian North Shore Brigham Young University with a degree in history and a love of the ancient Spanish period. Perhaps it was also meant to be that he would happen to meet Kim and Lee Fisher one day on Pier 39 in San Francisco. A relationship developed that made Rick feel as family in the Mel Fisher clan and he began a life of excitement in Key West Florida with the world’s greatest treasure hunter.

Among his experiences in leadership are such events as directing the marketing of two national companies. He has been a teacher and lecturer in schools and a coach in various sports, including underwater diving, skiing, snowboarding, football and tennis. He has addressed audiences throughout the United States and Canada.

This ultimate adventurer might also be called the ultimate story-teller as many people, young and old, love to hear his tales and the great motivational lessons he shares from the fabulous people he has known and the incredible things that he has seen.