Brandi Mueller is an award-winning underwater photographer and writer who grew up in northern Wisconsin. She considers herself an obsessive traveler and loves to spend time underwater with a camera. Learning to dive in high school, she has been instructing scuba for almost twenty years and has been a USCG Merchant Mariner captain for over fifteen years. She has been lucky to live and work in places such as Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, Hawaii, and more.

Brandi has published many articles and photos both online and in print. Her work has appeared in National Geographic, Lonely Planet books, and many magazines, including Scuba Diving, Air & Space Quarterly, X-Ray Mag, and Asian Diver. Her work has been seen online on sites like Mashable, MSN, My Modern Met, UNILAD, and ABC News. Her underwater film work has appeared in Discovery Channel TV shows. Brandi is an Ikelite ambassador and has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Tampa and a master’s degree from the University of Hawaii.