Richard Hughes closed his 24-seat safety training center on Cape Cod to become a retired student of modern worldwide shipping operations. He graduated from Massachusetts Maritime Academy with a B.S. in Marine Transportation then obtained a Masters Degree in Business from Lesley University. While at MMA, he sailed on the Bay State, the Lightning, and the Mobil Lube. His books include the Cape Safety, Inc. - Danger Dogs Series-a collection of 6 novels detailing the exciting lives of a top-notch safety consulting firm based out of Woods Hole, MA, and San Francisco, CA. His popular non-fiction Deep Sea Decisions is an expose of maritime tragedies. He and his wife have written seven screenplays, two of which have been turned into novels?Training Ship and Cape Car Blues. They have also co-authored the fictional Newtucket Island. He lives and writes in the seaside village of Waquoit, MA, with his wife and co-author, Lavinia M. Hughes.