Captain Dan was born on the shores of the North Sea in Kircaldy, Scotland. Shortly after emigrating to Canada his parents bought a 12' aluminum runabout with a 7 1/2 horsepower outboard engine, and Danny has spent much of his life on and in the water ever since. In 1998, after stints working on lobster boats, a trawler, and as a commercial diver, he bought his first sailboat - the Tom Saylor - and the whale-watching tour business that went with it. He spent the next 8 years sailing out of Dingwall and Bay St. Lawrence Harbours in Northern Cape Breton introducing landlubbers to the Leviathans of the deep.