Man of the season

Handsome triathlete doctor Andy Baldwin seeks out true love -- and finds it! -- on "The Bachelor"

He's almost too perfect. But now the world can try to spot a tiny flaw in the handsome, chiseled, bronzed physician/U.S. Navy diver/triathlete/humanitarian/nice guy Andy Baldwin when the 10th season of "The Bachelor" begins tomorrow night.

"The Bachelor: Officer and a Gentleman" Airs tomorrow at 8:45 p.m. on ABC

And he won't be the only entertainment. Viewers might get to see more shortcomings than they bargained for in the women who clamored for his attention over eight episodes. Filming began in Los Angeles and ended in Hawaii, where the Pearl Harbor-stationed Baldwin lives.

Apparently, one of the women looked ideal to him, too.

"I'm beaming right now because I met an amazing woman and I'm very much in love," said Baldwin, who has dived to 250 feet, helped salvage the Ehime Maru and operates the hyperbaric chamber for Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit One. "She's going to be moving out here (to Hawaii) in June."

Baldwin reported with a sigh that he "traveled a lot" over the seven weeks of shooting, visiting a few of the female contestants in their respective hometowns.

When asked why someone with his looks, education, career and amiable personality went this route to meet women, Baldwin laughed. "I'm far from perfect," he insisted. "Everybody has their weaknesses and flaws, and I definitely have mine as well. I just hadn't found the woman who was right for me, and who I was completely in love with, until I went on this journey."

Finding a life partner matters to Baldwin, whose parents have been married 36 years, and whose grandparents are celebrating their 60th anniversary. "I'm not willing to settle unless I'm sure it's right," he said.

It all started with a sea of gorgeous, fresh faces belonging to professional women in their 20s. So how did he go about choosing? "What I am looking for most of all is commonality of family values," he said. "A woman I can challenge and who can challenge me back." He also wanted an intellectual, caring, funny, curious, adventurous person who would be a good mother.

She'd also have to be a bit athletic. Baldwin, who has completed the Ironman Triathlon World Championships four times -- finishing in an impressive 9:45 -- is training for the grueling Escape from Alcatraz triathlon in early June.

The first episode certainly will be worth watching. The mild-mannered Baldwin is forced to eliminate 10 of the 25 bachelorettes while he celebrates his 30th birthday and watches one of the ladies do back flips -- literally -- in her evening gown.