Interviewer(s): D. Austin. Belle Chasse, LA

Affiliation: University of Arizona

Wayne Willet was referred to me by William Brown. Wayne was one of a small group of divers who had come down from Canada in the 1960s. He was born in Quebec in 1930. He got into diving when doing construction work in Canada and followed his boss, Max Rieher, to the Gulf in 1964. Wayne worked for Deep Sea Divers for two years and then went to work for Dick Evans. He stayed with Dick Evans and then McDermott for 26 years. Wayne worked in the Gulf of Mexico and many other places around the world. He and his wife had an agreement that he would never stay gone more than 3 months. They were married shortly after he began diving and stayed married 40 years, until her death in 1996.