Brian Beeler

From "The Beauty of Aqua:"

Brian Beeler was born in Boston, Massachusetts and raised on Cape Cod where his interest in motorcycles began. At seventeen years old he enlisted in the United States Coast Guard Reserves (Tango 103) and at eighteen became a non-commissioned officer in the same. He was a Machinery Technician (MK) assigned to the Coast Guard’s venerated 44’ Motorized Lifeboat, the USCG Cutter Bittersweet (WLB 389) and USCG Group Woods Hole, where he worked with his father, serving his career in and around the North Atlantic Ocean.

He is a life-long photojournalist and videographer with numerous international credits. As part of that work he lived in the City of Đà Nẵng for two years where his love of Vietnamese food was born.

He was also a computer programmer and network engineer.

In 2013 he was diagnosed with stage-four squamous cell carcinoma of the right mandible which almost cost him his life.

Brian has suffered with depression throughout his life which he now uses for inspiration.

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