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In 1985, Skiles founded Karst Productions and continued his underwater film career. Skiles was a proponent of cave divers using their skills to assist with scientific diving projects. [5] Skiles worked at a dive store in Branford, Florida, named Branford Dive Center. He and fellow cave instructor Gene Broome mapped and laid safety line for many ...
Scott J. Cassell (born March 16, 1962) [1] is an American explorer, underwater filmmaker and counter-terrorism operative. [2] His documentary credits include over thirty-five programs for the Disney Channel, MTV (), Spike TV, the Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, the Space, the BBC and the History Channel. [3]
Jill Heinerth (born 1965) is a Canadian cave diver, underwater explorer, writer, photographer and film-maker. [4] She has made TV series for PBS, National Geographic Channel and the BBC, consulted on movies for directors including James Cameron, written several books and produced documentaries including We Are Water [5] and Ben's Vortex, about the disappearance of Ben McDaniel.
Ricou Ren Browning (February 16, 1930 – February 27, 2023) was an American stunt performer, filmmaker and actor.A skilled swimmer, he was known for his innovative underwater stunt work, notably in the 1954 film Creature from the Black Lagoon, in which he portrayed the titular Gill-man during the film's underwater scenes, and in the 1965 James Bond film Thunderball, for which he was the ...
In 1909, Albert Samama Chikly took the first underwater shot. [1] In 1910, he filmed Tuna fishing in Tunisia under the patronage of Albert I, Prince of Monaco. [2] In 1940 Hans Hass completed Pirsch unter Wasser (i.e. Stalking under Water) which was published by the Universum Film AG, lasted originally only 16 minutes and was shown in theatres before the main movie, but would eventually be ...
Stephen Frink – Underwater photographer and publisher; Peter Gimbel – American filmmaker and underwater photojournalist; Monty Halls – British TV broadcaster, diver and naturalist; Hans Hass – Austrian biologist, film-maker, and underwater diving pioneer; Henry Way Kendall – American particle physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics
Jean Painlevé (20 November 1902 – 2 July 1989) was a French photographer and filmmaker who specialized in underwater fauna. He was the son of mathematician and twice prime minister of France Paul Painlevé.
Media diving is professional underwater photography and filming, and related underwater work, often in support of television documentaries or films with underwater footage. Media divers are likely to be skilled camera operators who trained as divers to expand the scope of their operations, though some have started as recreational divers and ...