Stan
Waterman – Film maker; President, Shark’s Research Institute
Stan Waterman has received numerous honors
and awards for his work in television and in behalf of the sea including
five Emmys, two Gold Medals from the U.K. Underwater Film Festival, four
Golden Eagles, a lifetime Achievement Award from the Miami Expo and from
Boston Sea Rovers, the Cousteau Diver of the Year Award, the Richard
Hopper Day Memorial Medal from the Philadelphia Academy of Natural
Sciences, the Reaching Out Award from the Diving Equipment and Marketing
Association, and most recently has been named to the International Scuba
Diving Hall of Fame . The Discovery Channel produced and broadcast a
two-hour biographical special about Mr. Waterman, The Man Who Loves
Sharks.
Stan Waterman has been at the forefront of
scuba diving since its inception as a recreational sport both in this
country and throughout the world. His attraction to the underwater world
began as a schoolboy in 1936 when he first dived with a Japanese Ama
diver's mask in Florida. In the 1950's, inspired by Jacques Cousteau's
revolutionary invention of the Aqua Lung, Mr. Waterman acquired the
first one in Maine and went on to pioneer scuba diving in that state.
Between 1954 and 1958 he operated a dive
business in the Bahamas with a boat he had built specially for diving.
His first 16mm film on diving was produced during those years. For the
next fifteen years, Mr. Waterman continued to record his worldwide
journeys and exploits on film; most were ultimately purchased as
television documentaries. In 1965 he took his entire family - wife and
three children - to Tahiti. Their careers as television stars were
launched when National Geographic purchased the rights to air his film
of that year-long experience.
In 1968 he collaborated with Peter Gimbel
on the classic shark film, Blue Water, White Death. He was
associate producer and underwater cameraman during the seven-month long
production. However, he may be best know for his work in commercial
film. He was co-director of underwater photography and second unit in
the production of The Deep, based on Peter Benchley's
best-selling novel. In other collaborations with his close friend and
neighbor, Mr. Benchley, he was responsible for ten years' worth of
productions for ABC's "American Sportsman Show". More recent productions
include documentaries for ABC's "Spirit of Adventure" series and the
"Expedition Earth" series on ESPN.
Mr. Waterman graduated from Dartmouth in
1946, where he studied with Robert Frost and earned a B.A. in English.
He has maintained an appreciation of language and literature throughout
his life. He is married and is the father of two sons and a daughter,
each of whom has acquired a special love of the sea from him. He and his
oldest son, Gordy, a successful cameraman in his own right, won the
first father and son Emmy for their work together in the "National
Geographic Explorer" production, Dancing With Stingrays. Mr.
Waterman maintains residences in New Jersey and Maine.
Mr. Waterman's first book,
Sea Salt,
was published in 2005 and is in its second printing. Mr. Waterman
continues to dive, film, lecture, and hosts dive tours.
DAVID DOUBILET - National
Geographic Photographer in Residence : www.daviddoubilet.com
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A consummate artist, award-winning
photographer David Doubilet began photographing underwater environments
at the age of 12 in the cold, green seas off the northern New Jersey
coast. He used a Brownie Hawkeye camera wrapped in a clear plastic bag,
and he's been behind the lens ever since. In 1971 he began contracting
as a photographer for the National Geographic Society, and he now has
photo- graphed over 50 articles for National Geographic magazine. About
his work for National Geographic, Doubilet says, "My job description is
to make a picture of a place no one has ever seen before...or to make a
picture that's different of a place that everybody's seen before."
Doubilet's recent assignments have taken
him to the waters around Australia. Off Australia's southern coast, he
focused on the endangered great white shark. Doubilet observed, "The
great white shark is the ultimate predator, a living myth. But it is not
a nightmare...It dominates its world, but is threatened by ours."
One of National Geographic's most
popular and entertaining speakers, Doubilet will offer a thrilling
behind-the-scenes look at these two marvels of the ocean world. He will
also describe a long-term research and conservation initiative being
undertaken by the National Geographic Society to encourage better
stewardship of the oceans.
David Doubilet was born 11/28/46 in New
York City. Now age 52, he began snorkeling at the age of eight in the
cold, green seas off the northern New Jersey coast. By the age of
thirteen, he was taking black and white pictures above and below the sea
with his first camera -- a pre-war Leica. Parts of summer and winter
vacations were spent at Small Hope Bay Lodge on Andros Island in the
Bahamas. He worked as a diving guide and on days off would take his
camera. Doubilet later spent several summers working as a diver and
photographer for the Sandy Hook Marine Laboratories in New Jersey. He
is presently a Contract Freelance Photographer for the National
Geographic Society where he has been steadily working for twenty-seven
years.
In 1965 Doubilet began studying film
and journalism at Boston University's College of Communication. He
majored in still photography and graduated in 1970 with a Bachelor of
Science degree. In 1988 he received their Distinguished Alumni of the
Year award. During the summer of 1966, he attended a pilot course in
underwater photography at the Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa
Barbara, California. Doubilet's first work for National Geographic
Magazine was published in 1972. Since then, as a Contract Photographer
for NGM, he has produced over fifty stories for the magazine, in recent
years adding author to his credit line of photographer. His warm-water
work has taken him throughout Indonesia, Micronesia, Australia and New
Guinea in the Pacific; Sri Lanka and the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean;
and all over the Caribbean. The Red Sea, his favorite "underwater
studio", has produced at least ten different stories for the magazine.
Cold-water work has immersed him off the coast of England; in Scotland's
Loch Ness; into the teeming waters of the Galapagos; around the
mysterious shores of Japan; and deep in Canada's Northwest Pacific. He
has also worked off the entire eastern coast of the United States --
from Maine to the Florida Keys -- and California.
Doubilet's photography has won many
prizes including in 1969 the prestigious "Sara Prize and International
Award" given by Mondo Sommerso Magazine in Italy. He was the first
American and the youngest person to win this award. In 1975 he was
named "Diver of the Year" by the Boston Sea Rovers, one of the diving
world's most honorable organizations. He has also received several
honorable mentions by the National Press Photographer's Association over
the last decade. In 1993 he was honored in France by winning first
place trophy in the Professional Category of an international contest
sponsored by C.M.A.S. (World Underwater Federation); and by appearing
as Guest of Honor at the 20th World Festival of Underwater Photography
in Cap D'Antibes. Although most of Doubilet's photographic time is spent
working for the National Geographic Society and its diverse
publications, his work has also appeared worldwide in other magazines
and books. His commercial work includes several ad campaigns for
clients such as Kodak, Fa Soap, Vitaspa, Seagrams, and Microsoft. He
did the still photography for two films -- THE DEEP and SPLASH.
Doubilet's first book, LIGHT IN THE
SEA, was published in 1989 by Thomasson-Grant in the USA. Foreign
editions were printed in Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy and
Japan. Doubilet's second book PACIFIC: AN UNDERSEA JOURNEY was
published in 1992 by Bulfinch Press, received an award from the American
Institute of Graphic Arts and went into a soft-cover edition in Japan.
UNDER THE SEA FROM A TO Z written by Anne L. Doubilet with photographs
by David Doubilet was published in 1991 by Crown Press (Random House)
and received notable mentions from a national organization of science
teachers and a national children's panel.
A popular speaker and instructor,
Doubilet has appeared on the "Today Show" on NBC-TV and is in demand for
his lectures and slide shows at universities, underwater film festivals
and clubs (the Explorer's Club and the Harvard Club both in NYC) around
the world. In 1993 Doubilet broadcast a live underwater interview for
National Public Radio from twenty feet deep in Ginnie Springs, Florida.
In 1995-1996 Doubilet and his work are featured in a national
advertising campaign for the Rolex Watch Co. From 1994 through 1996 he
is the author of a popular monthly feature entitled "Magnificent
Moments", including text and photography, in Japan's SINRA Magazine. |
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