Matthias, Paul

After his first experience diving in the underwater world as a teenager while achieving his initial SCUBA certification in the late 1970s, Paul’s deep passion for the ocean world has never wavered. Since taking that first step, Paul went on to develop a successful thirty-year professional background as an ocean explorer, entrepreneur and ocean engineering leader. As the founder of Polaris Imaging, Inc, Paul invented seafloor imaging technology he used to explore the Lusitania, Titanic, and Britannic, among others, operating his equipment from ships and submarines. Since 2011, Paul has worked at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution as the Ocean Observatories Initiative Program Manager.