Bravely Serving Her Country
To quench her oceanic desires, Mueller decided to enroll in the U.S. Coast Guard right out of high school. Once in the Coast Guard, she traveled to some of the greatest ports in the world. “I’ve been really lucky in traveling. Dive jobs brought me to the Caribbean, Hawaii, Turks and Caicos, Papua New Guinea, and more.”
Eventually, Mueller began teaching diving classes, sharing her love for the ocean with other people, even learning how to pilot a boat at the same time. “I worked my way up to Divemaster in college and became a dive instructor right after I graduated. Working on boats while instructing and guiding, learning to be a captain just sort of happened in the progression,” she said. However, none of these amazing experiences could prepare the young woman for what she would discover in the middle of the Pacific Ocean…