William Hellman is also published as Bill Hellman and WB Hellman. He has written articles on sailing, fishing and travel and politics. He was born in Great Falls Montana and joined the Navy at age 18. After a 24 year career in SEAL Team he was hired to train Special Forces divers in the use of underwater mobility devices. He is an avid sailor and a subject matter expert all aspects of boating, marine navigation and combat craft operations. He has traveled the world for work and pleasure. He holds an Instrument rating as a private pilot, he is alpine skier and he has logged thousands of hours underwater operating military wet submersibles.