John Clauss

• TIGHAR # 0142CE.

John Clauss is a veteran of seven expeditions to Nikumaroro and has been a TIGHAR member since 1987. He is self-employed, in the business of specialty fabrication for race cars and race sailboats, is an experienced heavy equipment operator and has been a general engineering/hazmat contractor for over twenty years. He also holds a private pilot/ float plane certificate and has been racing sailboats for forty years.

In 1982, he raised an aluminum unlimited hydroplane from the bottom of Lake Tahoe. Skip-A-Long had been resting at a depth of five hundred feet since 1949 and is now on display at a local museum.

John was born and raised in Sacramento California and has resided on the California side of Lake Tahoe for the past thirty three years.

• Veteran TIGHAR expedition member.

  

  John flying a kite, Niku V. Photo by Lonnie Schorer.

  • Niku I
  • Niku II
  • Niku IIIP
  • Niku III
  • Niku IIIIP
  • Niku IIII
  • Niku V
  • Niku VI