[2] He was on his school's swimming team and one of his coaches asked if he would be interested in taking scuba lessons.
He became a certified scuba diver at 13 years of age and started diving around the New York and Canadian areas.
He received two bachelor's degrees in biology and German, and two years later got a masters in Physiology, all from Penn State.
[2] Bright repeatedly dived on the SS Andrea Doria shipwreck, near Nantucket, to research the ship's demise.
On July 8, 2006, while diving to determine if any damage was caused to the keel of the ship, Bright suffered from decompression sickness and went into cardiac arrest.