"We want new members and corporate sponsorships. "This is not entirely altruistic on my part," he said. "In an age when people are taught to value security and avoid risk at all costs, the Explorers Club teaches you to be a poet of action, to take calculated risks for the benefit of science, and to gather knowledge that will enhance various fields of study," he said.įogel, an Atlantic City native, is working to bring new blood - especially young people - into the 120-member chapter. "Whether undersea, in outer space, down the river, up the mountain, or into inner-space pursuits like medicine, genetics, and psychiatry, our members have excelled in all of these fields and more," said Fogel, the founder, president, and executive director of WaterWatch International, a nonprofit volunteer water-monitoring organization. Fogel, 66, was named to the position in January by the Philadelphia chapter's board of directors, which recognized his lifetime of exploration and work related to water quality. Members of the international organization of adventurers and scientists, founded in 1904, have been the first at locations from the North Pole to the moon. (As the ad says, "It's never too late to start beefing up your obituary.")Ī diver, a Coast Guard-licensed ship captain, and an aircraft pilot, the resident of Somers Point, N.J., seems to have been everywhere and done everything - except chair an Explorers Club chapter.
Fogel could stand in for "the most interesting man in the world" on those Dos Equis beer commercials. He has filmed tribes in Guyana, acted in films, and helped save the life of a woman whose car plunged from a bridge into icy waters at the Jersey Shore.Īnd along the way, he was in a 1979 Playgirl magazine photo spread and won five national American Ironman titles with the U.S. He has paddled a kayak hundreds of miles along the United States' East and West Coasts, on rivers in Germany and France, and down dangerous rapids on the Yangtze in China. He has sailed the South Pacific alone, motorcycled from Alaska to South America, and lived with a primitive tribe he discovered in Ethiopia.
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