At a young age Phil had a fascination with the sea and life under the sea. Desire and destiny collided and he became one of the few selected individuals to man the Cold War's newly developed, devastating, impossibly expensive, extraordinarily dangerous and highly complex nuclear ballistic missile submarines. How Phil ended up living on the front lines of the Cold War along with the amazing history of his parents are contained in the captivating story; "Life Aboard the Crazy Polack." Author Phil Jaskoviak was born in 1949 in a small Chicago suburb to a father of Polish immigrants and a man that had recently witnessed unbelievable atrocities of war. Phil's mother was a Scottish immigrant, coal miners' daughter who, at a very young age, faced combined and unimaginable tragedies but despite the extreme adversity ended up as a model for survival. Phil is a graduate of Pepperdine University and majored in business management. Phil and his wife, Susan, reside in Southern California.