Mobility Way By Mike Savicki — Afterburner Communications NMEDA CONSULTANT
Dennis Knox—A Life of Adventure, A Lifetime of Passion
I
f you happen to be wondering, by
Yes, you heard it right. This is one of
somewhere,” Dennis Knox, 53, begins.
chance, what it’s like to survive
those stories that, if it weren’t all true,
He’s at his Palm Harbor, Florida home,
being lost at sea for more than 24
you might think belongs in an action
taking an interview break from his 27
hours, Dennis Knox is the guy you
movie or cable series. And I’ll admit
year job at AT&T while also preparing
should ask. He can also tell you a
that never in all my decades of writing
for a two-day offshore fishing trip. The
good bit about big and small game
have I written about someone being
Gulf waters are forecasted to be flat
hunting on continents around the
lost at sea or gator hunting let alone
and calm for the upcoming weekend
world, all types of fishing from ice to
both. But that’s because I have never
so he thinks he can make it 55 miles
spear, and SCUBA, too. And before I
before met anyone like Dennis Knox.
out to good fishing waters, then back,
forget, yes, he’s also a pretty decent alligator hunter.
“I feel like if I share my story and experiences, I’m helping out someone
on two consecutive days. Why not stay on the boat overnight? Two trips means he can maximize his haul of fish; what he catches and unloads on the first day doesn’t count against what he catches on day two. He’ll captain his 30’ Island Hopper. It has an open and spacious deck for his chair. His 25’ Carolina Skiff will stay docked on the lift. If you haven’t guessed by now, Dennis has a huge sense of, and passion and purpose for, adventure. He’s a modern-day outdoorsman. That sense of adventure and being outside took root as a kid growing up in upstate New York. He comes from a family of hunters and fishermen. Twelve months of the year they were outside. Always. Almost every day.
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