Renée worked in the editorial department at Underwater USA, a monthly newspaper serving the dive industry, from 1989-1993. While there she learned to dive, receiving her open-water certification in 1990. She joined DAN in 1993 as communications director, leaving in 2008 to care for her father. Now living in the Florida Keys she continues to dive, snorkel, hike and explore caves topside as a member of the National Speleological Society. She is presently Communications Coordinator for the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society.