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Marshall Allan - Marshall Allan is an avid Great Lakes wreck diver with Trimix certification from northwest Ohio. He has filmed mantas in Yap, wrecks in Chuuk/Truk, and more, but the summers are filled with diving the great lakes with friends. Rick Kruzel, tech diving instructor, and dive buddy has edited and produced this Whitefish video. Marshall just "feels weird" in the water without his camera.
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Steve Arnam began his marine education with a love of the ocean and made marine science a goal. His prize is a Bachelors of Science in Marine Biology. In 1983 he became a scuba instructor, which enabled him to teach his passion by taking dive groups on eco-dive trips worldwide. He currently teaches science to K-12 students and coaches swimming. He enjoys enhancing marine and aquatic awareness. "After all, we are all students of the water planet."
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Roger J. Barski
Director and Founder
Nautical Archaeology Group (NAG)
After retiring from the motion picture business as a producer and director in 2005, Roger switched careers and began working full time in the field of maritime archaeology. By the fall of 2007, the Nautical Archaeology Group had been established and had completed its first educational project called Artifact Park.
This 2,300 year old Mediterranean-style shipwreck was designed and installed as a new training facility for underwater archaeology and is located at Haigh Quarry, Kankakee, Illinois. In addition to Artifact Park, Roger is currently working with PADI scuba instructor Dan Howard on writing four new certifications to qualify recreational divers in the basic techniques of underwater survey work.
There are two educational projects currently under development at NAG for the 2008 season. The first is a maritime video TV series intended for cable and DVD release entitled Wreck Raiders©. The series will feature some well known and not so well know shipwrecks that have gone down in Great Lakes waters. The opening episode is scheduled to be shot this summer on location in and around Lake Michigan. The second project is the Arky for Kids Program©. This course introduces younger students to the exciting world of archaeology using a total hands-on approach. The first class is scheduled to begin running this year at the Irons Oaks Environmental Learning Center located in Olympia Fields, Illinois. After the initial testing phase has been completed the Arky for Kids Program© will then be made available to all schools and learning centers nationwide.
Mr. Barski is also a founding member of the Briggs Project -The Alpha Wreck Odyssey. The Briggs team is currently investigating a 19th century wooden schooner located in Lake Michigan that was believed to have carried fugitive slaves north to Canada during the antebellum years. The team has plans to excavate the Alpha Wreck in the summer of 2008 in collaboration with
Dr. Thomas Loebel of the University of Illinois at Chicago.
The Briggs Project can be found on the Internet: www.briggsproject.org
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Charles D. Beeker has been the Director of the Indiana University Academic Diving Program since 1984 and the Director of the Indiana University Office of Underwater Science since its inception in 1992. Mr. Beeker is a specialist in establishing underwater shipwreck parks and preserves and also sits on the Marine Protected Areas Federal Advisory Committee, authorized by Executive Order in order to establish a national system of Marine Protected Areas in the United States. He is a Registered Professional Archaeologist and has worked on many projects throughout North America and the Caribbean over the last 25 years, having dived on literally hundreds of shipwrecks. Mr. Beeker has directed projects in the Dominican Republic, the Cayman Islands, the Florida Keys, and on the Pacific Coast in California. While he has conducted research on shipwrecks from the time of Columbus up to World War II, his personal research focuses heavily on shipwrecks and submerged sites of the Contact Period and Columbus, as well as 17th and 18th century shipwrecks and wooden vessels. He and the IU team are excavating a shipwreck thought to be the Cara Merchant, abandoned by Captain William Kidd in 1699 along the southern coast of Hispaniola, now the Dominican Republic. Indiana University’s initial excavation of the shipwreck was the focus of a documentary entitled “Shipwreck! Captain Kidd” that premiered November 2008 on the National Geographic Channel, as a feature production for the new NGC Expeditions Week.
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Jonathan Bird is a professional underwater cinematographer and photographer. His films have appeared all over the world, on networks such as National Geographic Channel, PBS, ABC, USA Network, Discovery and even the SciFi Channel. He has won two Emmy Awards and two Cine Golden Eagles for his work. He is the author of seven books of underwater photography and the host of his own program on American public television Jonathan Bird's Blue World.
Jonathan Bird's Blue World is back for an exciting second season--produced entirely in stunning HD. There are 7 incredible new half-hour programs exploring the mysteries of the deep around the world.
Emmy Award-winning underwater cinematographer and naturalist Jonathan Bird is the dynamic host of Jonathan Bird's Blue World. His 20 years of experience in the field are evident in the high quality of this educational family-oriented underwater adventure series.
The first season of Jonathan Bird's Blue World won the prestigious CINE Golden Eagle, praise from the National Education Association, the National Science Teachers Association and even PCMag.com. One web episode was featured on YouTube, earning 100,000 views in a single day. It reached an impressive 36% of U.S. households and aired in 11 of the top 25 public television markets with only 5 episodes available in the first season of programming. |
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Jett Britnell
is an internationally published underwater photojournalist who specializes in underwater, travel, wildlife, editorial assignments and digital stock photography. He is currently a Travel Editor for Northwest Dive News and worked as a Contributing Editor to Canada’s Diver Magazine for 15 years.
Jett’s photos and editorial work appear regularly in diving publications, travel & lifestyle magazines, books, calendars, websites and commercial advertisements worldwide. His editorial assignments have taken him to the Maldives, Fiji, Indonesia, Palau, Truk Lagoon, Ponape, Vanuatu, and a host of other exotic dive destinations. In 2002 and 2004, Jett was a featured artist in the Underwater Archaeological Society of British Columbia’s Underwater Explorations Speakers Series. He has also been a featured guest speaker and workshop leader throughout Canada. His work has been in over 20 well-known magazines and Newspapers.
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Ania Budziak is a Marine Conservation and Education Specialist with Project AWARE Foundation. With Masters Degrees in Environmental Science and Public Affairs, Ania is the Foundation’s key science resource on how to best use our programs and activities to benefit the environment and the scuba community. Ania is a PADI Instructor who developed her scuba skills and knowledge working for seven years as a Research Associate with the Office of Underwater Science at Indiana University (IU). At IU, Ania helped train hundreds of scientific divers in the use of scuba as a tool for research working in partnership with dive operators in Bonaire, Cayman Islands, Dominican Republic, and the Florida Keys. |
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David F. Colvard, M.D., is a board-certified private psychiatrist and clinical investigator in Raleigh NC, and a divemaster. He first learned to dive in West Palm Beach in 1971 and remembers the old Florida Keys. He is a graduate of Georgia Institute of Technology and Duke University School of Medicine and completed one year of residency in surgery at North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill and three years of residency in psychiatry at Duke University Medical Center. He has also studied clinical trials design at UNC-CH and experimental statistics at NCSU.
Since becoming a divemaster in 1999, Dr. Colvard has been studying stress, anxiety, and panic in scuba divers by conducting online surveys of thousands of divers from around the world. His first study of diver panic in over 12,000 divers in Fall 2000 was sponsored by Rodale's Scuba Diving magazine. In June 2002 he presented the results at the 35th Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society Annual International Scientific Meeting in La Jolla, CA. His and his wife Lynn’s article "A Study of Panic in Recreational Divers" was featured in the winter quarter 2003 issue of The Undersea Journal. In September 2007 he led the "Diver Stress and Panic Prevention Workshop" for DAN - Southern Africa in Johannesburg and spoke on "Anxiety, Panic and Psychiatric Problems in Divers" at the SAUHMA Conference - Refresher Course in Underwater Medicine 2007.
Dr. Colvard has continued to conduct follow up online surveys of scuba divers on a variety of topics, including PTSD in the divers who survived the December 2004 tsunami in Southeast Asia. In 2006 he conducted a study of middle ear pressure equalization using SINUS RINSE™ for NeilMed Pharmaceuticals and presented the results in September 2007 in Johannesburg, South Africa. He has made presentations on several topics to dive professionals in Bonaire, Mozambique, South Africa, and the United States and has been cited and quoted in international scuba publications. In 2007 he wrote a weekly column entitled "A Shrink Studies Scuba" for the Bonaire Reporter. He hosts the website www.divepsych.com which provides evidence-based information for divers on psychological and stress factors in scuba divers. |
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Annie Crawley - Annie Crawley has lived and worked around the world for the past 15 years from Indonesia to Galapagos, Belize to Papua New Guinea. Originally from Chicago, Annie now lives in Santa Barbara CA. Annie works as a producer, photographer, dive instructor, captain and educator. Her work has been published in magazines, Museums, Aquariums and environmental institutions worldwide. Her personal mission: "To educate and create entertaining multi-media programs to stimulate and educate the world into protecting our oceans." Annie's recent work includes, Ocean Life from A to Z a book/dvd created with Reader's Digest Children's Book; Dive Into Your Imagination, a series of DVD's for children pre-K and up; The Camera Coach, Your Guide to Creating Underwater Video, the first ever instructional DVD teaching you how to shoot and edit underwater video; and Visions of the Sea, a DVD for all ocean lovers taking you on a journey around the world. You can view Annie's work at http://www.anniecrawley.com/. |
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Jack and Sue Drafahl are a husband and wife team of professional photojournalists, lecturers and multimedia producers. For over thirty years their articles have appeared in Sport Diver, Skin Diver, Dive Training, Diver, Petersen's Photographic, and Rangefinder Magazines. They are the founders of the Oregon Coast Digital Center, an enhanced learning facility designed to help others learn Photoshop skills. They have been actively involved in the digital transition since the early 80's and are software and hardw are Beta testers for companies like Adobe, Applied Science Fiction, Kodak, Corel and Ulead Systems. These Platinum Pro 5000 divers were awarded Divers of the Year from Beneath the Sea in 1996 and Sue is an inaugural member of the Women Divers Hall of Fame. They are authors of several books including: Adobe Photoshop for Underwater Photographers, Master Guide for Digital Underwater Photography and Digital Imaging for the Underwater Photographer. Recently they launched a new series of Photoshop DVD tutorials.
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Sharks have fascinated both Joe Romeiro and Bill Fisher since childhood. As avid recreational divers, they hope to spread the message that sharks do not live up to the negative reputation that is so often depicted. Through their films, they portray sharks not as mindless killers, but as the beautiful and majestic creatures they are. Their ultimate goal is to help conserve and appreciate the beauty of the world’s oceans and its creatures. |
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Lynn Funkhouser was inducted into the inaugural Women Divers Hall of Fame (WDHOF). She is an internationally published photographer, author, lecturer, environmentalist, adventuress, and leader in dive travel. She specializes in underwater, nature, travel, and environmental images.
In 2008, Lynn was inducted into the Society of Women Geographers. SWG members are women who love adventure and have added to the world’s knowledge. Members include Amelia Earhart, Eugenie Clark, Sylvia Earle, Jane Goodall, Margaret Mead, and Pearl Buck.
As an environmentalist, Lynn is committed to making a difference on this planet through her images and lectures.
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Michel Gilbert & Danielle Alary
Award-winning, lecturers, photography and multimedia producers, Michel and Danielle have been “at sea” for over 25 years. Authors of more than 525 articles related to diving, travel and sailing, they are underwater photography columnists for Diver and En Profondeur (Into the Depths) magazines. Their work is sold worldwide.
Recipients of the Canadian Diving Achievement Award in 1991 and the Diver of the Year Award for the Arts at Beneath the Sea in New-York, in 1995, in 1997, they won the coveted Silver Diver Award at the Antibes World Festival of Underwater Images. Their multimedia production about the seals of the Gulf of St-Lawrence won a Grand Prize from the Ministry of Tourism of Québec.
They are panoramic multimedia specialists.
Danielle is a member of the Women Divers Hall Of Fame.
Danielle and Michel were honored during the 37th edition of Our World Underwater in Chicago in 2007, in recognition for their contribution to the diving community and to the show over the years.
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David Hartman pursues his passion for diving and travel in his position as Adventure Travel Specialist and resident dive expert for Learning Through Travel. A PADI Master SCUBA Diver Trainer and a successful entrepreneur, Mr. Hartman combines his knowledge and experience to educate people on dive travel to Egypt and the Red Sea. All it took was one trip to Egypt and diving the Red Sea in 2006 to convince David that Egypt was a destination that more divers need to experience. David returns to Egypt frequently to escort clients and to research new travel programs for touring ancient Egypt and diving the Red Sea. Mr. Hartman lives in Key Largo and teaches SCUBA for local dive shops when he is not traveling in Egypt. |
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Jason Heller is a New York City based commercial photographer specializing in underwater, travel & lifestyle photography. He is the founder and publisher of DivePhotoGuide.com, a popular portal for the global community of underwater photographers and videographers. Additionally, Jason is a special correspondent for Sport Diver magazine where he writes and shoots the Images column.
Jason began scuba diving in 2001 and is part of the new generation of underwater photographers. During the mid to late nineties, Jason was better known as the founder of one of the first digital advertising agencies, and diving was far from his mind. It was not until 2001 when he began providing marketing seminars for DEMA, where he got hooked on diving forever. Diving came naturally for Jason. Finally submerged into the mysteries of the ocean that he had been drawn to from an early age, soon thereafter underwater photography became his passion. Although he is a champion for marine related causes, Jason’s photographic vision is to create images that are exude passion and uniquely portray water as an artistic medium. You can see more of Jason’s work at www.jasonheller.com. |
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Michael Hoppe is the office manager of Ultimate Dive Travel and has been working as an instructor and travel coordinator in the dive industry for over 15 years. His travels have taken him throughout the Caribbean, the South Pacific, Micronesia, and Asia. Ultimate Dive Travel is a scuba travel wholesaler located in the greater Chicago land area that specializes in only scuba diving travel. Ultimate Dive Travel is proud to have one of the highest customer service ratings in the industry and only offers destinations that they have personally visited. What this means to their customers is that they can feel confident that the person they speak to about their next scuba getaway is speaking from their own personal experiences. |
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Dr. Kira Kaufmann is the Marine Archaeologist for the Florida Public Archaeology Network at FAU. She has been a field Archaeologist for over 2 decades and holds a BA, MA, and Ph.D. in Anthropology, specializing in archaeogeophysics and pre-contact submerged sites. She has conducted terrestrial and underwater Archaeological projects in the Midwest US, Southeast US, and in Peru. Kira is also a technical SCUBA diver and has been teaching SCUBA for over 15 years. |
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Over the last 30 years, Greg Lashbrook and Kathy Johnson have participated in most fields of underwater work including scuba certification classes, search & rescue operations, commercial hardhat jobs and research projects. In 1990 they published their first book on Great Lakes diving and have since published numerous articles for national publications such as - Sport Diver Magazine, USA Today and National Geographic. Their work with the DNR, DEQ and US Fish and Wildlife Service, among other organizations, has established them as Great Lakes marine life experts.
Their unique skill set as fine artists combined with their underwater expertise and video work has also enabled them to work with a wide variety of public facilities. From the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto to TV Japan in Tokyo, Greg and Kathy are working hard to raise awareness of the importance of freshwater marine life. In the spring of 2007, they assisted Nick Caloyianis and his production crew to film spawning lake sturgeon, for the IMAX movie “Mysteries of the Great Lakes”. In 2008, they were asked by the Detroit Science Center to be the spokespersons for the IMAX film’s midwest premiere
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Cris Kohl and Joan Forsberg, a Chicago husband-and-wife team, love to explore shipwrecks, particularly those in the Great Lakes. Joan, who has a degree in History and has been the Chairman of its "Shipwrecks and our Maritime Heritage" Room at Chicago’s "Our World – Underwater" Show since 1996, is the author of the scuba celebrity "cook-and-tell" book, "Diver’s Guide to the Kitchen," and articles in "Immersed" and "Wreck Diving" (for which she now works as Copy Editor) magazines. Cris, a prize-winning underwater photographer with a Master’s Degree in History, is Past President of the Underwater Archaeological Society of Chicago and has written ten books about Great Lakes shipwrecks. He has appeared on numerous television programs, including the History Channel.
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Richie Kolher - Richie Kohler’s diving experiences began in the waters surrounding his Brooklyn NY, roots, but his passion for exploring shipwrecks has led him around the world. The Andrea Doria, RMS Titanic and the HMHS Britannic are some of the better known shipwrecks he has explored and documented, but it was his work identifying the WWII German Submarine, U-869, that catapulted his diving career into the world of television and underwater documentary film making. That work has been the subject of several television documentaries and a best selling book, "Shadow Divers" by Robert Kurson. The New York Times bestseller is soon to be a major motion picture by 20th Century Fox. Alongside longtime diving partner John Chatterton, Kohler has co-hosted 57 episodes of the History Channel series, "Deep Sea Detectives", and is now consulting and producing for the film and television industry.
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