Malone, Bart

Bart Malone has been diving for 54 years and diving shipwrecks for 41 of them. He is Senior Curator and Board Member at The Museum of New Jersey Maritime History in Beach Haven, NJ. He speaks at and is involved with the Cape May Maritime Museum and Education Center in Cape May, NJ as well as The New Jersey Shipwreck Museum in Wall, NJ. In addition to diving wrecks along the East Coast of the United States, Bart has traveled to Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, The Orkney Islands, The Scilly Isles, and the Great Lakes to pursue his obsession. He has dived a multitude of shipwrecks, including WW I and WW II wrecks, the Andrea Doria, the Empress of Ireland, the USS Monitor, the Princess Sophia, German U-boats, and some of Billy Mitchell’s wrecks.

McGee, Nancy

Nancy McGee is an explorer and filmmaker. She is an adrenaline junky, seeking opportunities to film the unusual. Her film subjects include Humboldt squid, tiger sharks, and an oceanic swimming elephant.
Nancy conducts group tours in many of the world’s most exotic locations, some so remote the local natives have never seen Westerners. She has filmed for NBC, Universal Studios, Discovery, and written for a variety of publications. She is a member of the Women Divers’ Hall of Fame and an Explorers Club Fellow.

Richardson, Charlotte L.

Charlotte has been diving and photographing underwater since she rented her first Nikonos in 1985.

Young, Paul

Paul has been diving and photographing underwater since he rented his first Nikonos in 1985.

Walsh, Michael

Mike Walsh was certified in 1980 and has since logged over 1100 dives ranging from New England lobster hunts through Cave exploration and Trimix wreck exploration. Mike picked up an underwater camera in 2000 and has not been seen without a camera at any exotic dive location since.

King, Joseph

A PADI Instructor and trimix diver, Joe has published a number of articles and photographs chronicling expeditions the world over in his 30+ years of diving including many notable wrecks such as the Andrea Doria, Empress of Ireland, and U869. Joe donates artifacts to museums/historical societies and he is an invited lecturer at many venues.

Hochman, Dave

Doviat, Stush

Fox, Dale

Kulhawik, Al

My love for the water started when I was 12 years old with a Voit mask, fins, and ping-pong type snorkel. I was certified in 1973, and took my first trip to the Caribbean in 1982. For the past 22 years I have been traveling to different dive destinations around the world. My photographs have been published and I give presentations to various dive clubs and at shows throughout the northeast.

Reem, Glen

Glen Reem is an amateur Maritime Historian, retired US Navy Captain and a 45 year Boston Sea Rover.

Nichols, Leander – Griffin, Mike

Mike Griffin has been diving the east coast of the U.S. from Maine to Key West for the past 18 years. In the last 8 years he has made many dives in Mexican and north Florida caves. Lea Nichols love to dive and photograph the undersea world in New England. He also likes to travel to warm tropical water as well and explore flooded and dry caves. Lea builds some of his underwater camera equipment and currently captures images with digital cameras.

Fiske, John

John started diving in 1981 and began researching and exploring Vermont’s quarries in 1996. A former school teacher, John is now a Writer and an “At-Home Dad”, but he still finds time to explore our underwater world.

Hess, Peter

Attorney and avid wreck diver, Peter is a leading advocate for underwater explorers seeeking access and/or salvage rights to historic shipwrecks. He is currently defending diver’s rights inter-nationally against a proposed treaty that declares the world’s shipwrecks are exclusively the property of government. Peter is also a Director of the prestiguos Explorers Club.

Goodman, Michael

Michael’s travels have provided opportunities to dive in places like the Red Sea, Palau, Australia, and Malaysia. Michael’s photographs have been published in books, calendars, and with music. He frequently presents multi-media photographic shows at business and photographic conferences. In January of 2004 Michael’s work was exhibited at Galerie f/5.6 in Munich. He has presented at previous Sea Rover Clinics, and has judged international photographic exhibitions.

Malkoski, Vin

An active New England diver since 1975, Vin is a long-time NAUI and DAN O2 Instructor, and has served as Diving Safety Officer for the MA Division of Marine Fisheries since 1989. As a senior biologist with DMF, Vin coordinates the Division’s Habitat Conservation, Artificial Reef, and Clean Vessel Act Programs.

Chatterton, John – Wolfiner, Kirk

John Chatterton’s current day job is hosting the History Channel series Deep Sea Detectives, with his dive partner Richie Kohler. Prior to that, he spent more that twenty years working as a commercial diver. His passion has been diving the world’s deep shipwrecks like Lucitania, Brittannic, and Andrea Doria. The discovery and subsequent identification of the German submarine U-869, off the coast of New Jersey, has been the subject of several television documentaries, and now a new book by Robert Kurson, Shadow Divers. Kirk Wolfinger has been producing and directing documentaries for 24 years. He has over 80 hours of nationally broadcast programs specializing in action- adventure, military and historical subjects. He has worked with every major broadcasting outlet in the US and Europe. Among his awards are two national Emmy’s and the prestigious George F. Peabody award. In addition to Deep Sea Detectives, he has worked with the US Navy, Bob Ballard and several other undersea explorers producing numerous hours of deep sea specific programming.

Essick, Todd

Todd Essick was raised in the Chicago Area. After moving to Florida he attended commercial art school. The photographic image become the focus of his artistic and professional life. Working as a professional freelance photojournalist for almost a decade in Miami, he continually used scuba diving and the ocean as his escape from the business of photography. He retired the camera professionally in order to pursue other interests. Ironically, it was during this time away from the camera that his long conceived but never executed underwater fine art photography project beckoned. A diving career spanning over 20 years and making thousands of dives, nurtured his love of the sea and the connection we all have with it. His vision, to share this with everyone, has become his ongoing photographic project; Goddesses, Sirens and Mermaids. His underwater fine art photography has been published in magazines around the world and most recently collected in his book Beginnings Goddesses, Sirens and Mermaids. His limited edition photographs are in many prized collection. Mr. Essick is a popular lecturer in both the art and scuba diving worlds.

Douglas, Kate

Kate holds the distinction of being the first Frank Scalli intern for the Boston Sea Rovers. The internship brought her across New England, the Great Lakes, San Diego, Orlando and Bonaire, where she had the chance to explore multiple underwater environments, all in a new set of gear donated by sponsors! Kate is currently in her fourth year at Rutgers University in New Jersey majoring in Marine Science. During the summer of 2007 she was involved with Harbor Branch’s Division of Biomedical Marine Research on a specimen collecting trip in the Florida Keys. Specimens collected were primarily sponges and corals to research their effectiveness as anti-bacterial and anti-cancer agents. Kate plans to pursue her interest in natural products research after graduation.

Gingo, Glennon

Glennon is the former manager and organizer of the US Freediving Team. He resides in Kona, Hawaii and has an aquatics consulting business. Glennon is currently working on a new book about the “Hanyo” and is a member of the Boston Sea Rovers.

Cowie-Haskell, Ben

Ben Cowie-Haskell serves as the diving supervisory and the Maritime Heritage Resource Coordinator at the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary. He has been with the National Sanctuary Program for 12 years. He received his M.S. in marine science from the University of Maryland and his B.A. from the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine where he was certified to dive in the frigid waters of Frenchman’s Bay.

Evans, Al

As a divemaster with over 10 years diving experience, Al has traveled the globe from Australia’s Great Barrier Reef to the Caribbean, Mexico and up the diverse New England coastline. He has documented, some of the most beautiful reefs in the world, as well as the adjoining coastal communities. A Computer Engineering background allows him to make the best use of high quality media and share these amazing habitats with the world.

Butler, Glenn

Glenn has 38 years experience in commercial and military mixed gas diving research, construction and salvage operations. Glenn Butler’s company, Life Support Technologies, Inc. is a NASA and DOD contractor that also provides specialized wound care and hyperbaric medical services in hospitals for patients with non-healing wounds, carbon monoxide poisoning and diver decompression illness. Glenn is the author of several patents and has published 35 papers in related literature.

McGuiness, Kathleen Mahoney

Kathleen started industry career in Washington DE over 23 years ago with Trans World Airlines in a variety of sales, automation and management positions for 15 years. In 1990 joined a corporate travel agency in the management side of the business, to experience as Vice President of the largest female owned agency in Virginia (rev 26MM+) for several years. In 1995 joined Cayman Islands Department of Tourism & Cayman Airways, to expand destination managements experience and execute marketing and niche travel management strategies.

Goreau, Tom

President: Global Coral Reef Alliance, a small non-profit organization for cutting edge work on coral reef conservation and management. He has dived all over the world since childhood. His father was the first diving coral reef scientist. He was educated at Jamaican Schools, MIT, Caltech, and Harvard.

LaVecchio, Michael

Michael LoVecchio is a public relations professional with 10 years combined experience advising and delivering solutions to industry and government. Michael is spokesman and media contact for Canadian Artificial Reef Consulting. He serves as Director of the Underwater Council of British Columbia and is a Certified Scuba Diving Instructor.

Easop, Tom

Tom Easop is a professional photographer, writer, and publisher. His latest book “The Guns and Armor of Scapa Flow” was photographed using custom made large format cameras of his own design. Tom travels the world shooting for various projects, lecturing and teaching.

Motyer, Nigel – Skerry, Brian

Brian Skerry is a photojournalist specializing in underwater subjects and stories. Since 1998 Brian has been a contributing photographer for National Geographic Magazine and has had four feature stories published within the last 18 months. His images have also been featured in magazines such as People, Sports Illustrated, US News and World Report, National Wildlife, Playboy, Smithsonian, Esquire, Audubon, Outdoor Life, Wildlife Conservation, Maxim, Men’s Journal and in countless publications worldwide. Brian is also the Photographic Correspondent for Sport Diver Magazine, which features his monthly column IMAGES. His latest book is Successful Underwater Photography with Howard Hall. His lecture today, Beneath Irish Isles is also the subject of his latest story in the March 2005 issue of National Geographic. Nigel Motyer began diving in 1985 and became involved with photography a couple of years after that. In fact his first camera was a Nikonos. Living in Dublin, most of his domestic diving is done around the west coast of Ireland where the effects of the gulf stream brings in an abundance of interesting marine life from the Atlantic. Although a banker by trade, he is a respected photographer having traveled extensively to numerous countries around the globe shooting a variety of subjects. Nigel’s work has been published in a number of books and European diving publications such as Diver, Subsea, Dive, Underwater Photographer, Sport Diver, Tauchen and Duiken. In 2003 and 2004 Nigel assisted Brian Skerry in Ireland with a story for National Geographic magazine.

Comeau, Gerald F.

Jerry has been diving from Canada to Bonaire and Dominica to Honduras. His experiences include wreck diving, ice diving, underwater photography and recoveries. He has been teaching basic and advanced for 50 years and is still at it.

Jenni, Craig

Craig has a 27 year long career as a professional diver, including recreational and technical instructor or instructor trainer for all major US training agencies, Instructor of Commercial Diving at the Ocean Corporation, a former commercial diver, and Naval Special Warfare Basic Underwater Demolition/ Seal training. Craig is the past executive director of the YMCA Scuba Program and currently provides forensic dive accident investigation and dive expert consultations.

Moyer, Harold – Gatto, Steve

Harold is a New Jersey wreck diver and operator of the dive boat Big Mac. He is the veteran of deep wrecks from the Andrea Doria to the wrecks of the New York Mud Hole and the Billy Mitchells Sunken Target Fleet.

Galli, Susan

Susan is a banker and avid diver with a particular fondness for Cocos Island with 15 trips under her belt. She has been an environmental advocate for marine conservation efforts in the Eastern tropical Pacific Seascape and has worked with various non governmental organizations such as Conservation International to raise awareness and assist with funding to protect Seascape. Her video footage has been used in several CI video presentations as well as for Fathoms Magazine. Susan is a Padi Master Scuba Diver Trainer and TDI Rebreather Instructor and is a founding partner in Almaco Dive Charters in Golfo de Papagayo area in Costa Rica.

Faulls, Aaron

An SSI/PADI Instructor for 5 years and a New England diver for 15, Aaron has been principle cameraman on aquatic locations as unusual as the Charles River and serene as The Cayman Islands. His work has appeared on regional programming as well as abroad on MTV and The Sailing Channel.

Funkhouser, Lynn

Lynn Funkhouser is an internationally published photographer, author, lecturer, environmentalist, adventuress, and leader in dive travel. She has been diving &
photographing in the Philippines 2 months a year, every year, for 35 years, & has dived over 260 islands. Lynn was inducted into the inaugural Women Divers Hall of Fame & the Society of Woman Geographers. As an environmentalist, Lynn is committed to making a difference on this planet through her images and
presentations.

Spark, Paul

Paul has been a commercial diver for the past 28 years working in various locations around the world. Primarily my work in offshore oil fields is underwater construction, maintenance, inspection and repair of sub sea oil field equipment. i.e. pipelines, wellheads, and the platform structures. I first learned SCUBA at a YMCA in 1968. 1969 I enlisted in the Navy and became a Frogman/SEAL. I received an A.S. degree in Marine Diving Technology from Santa Barbara City College.

Tacket, Larry & Denise

Larry and Denise are marine life natural history photojournalists whose work is widely published internationally. They are primarily interested in observing and recording the behavior of unique and rare marine life. Their book “Reef Life – Natural History and Behaviors of Marine Fishes and Invertebrates” was recently published.

McLean, Craig

Captain McLean is the Director of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration’s Office of Ocean Exploration whose mission is to foster exploration and a better understanding of our oceans.

Klein, Martin – Kozak, Garry

Marty is former President and Founder of Klein Associates, Inc. of Salem, New Hampshire. Prior to founding Klein Associates in 1968, he was Program Manager for Sonar Systems at E.G.& G. International where he developed the first commercially successful side scan sonar systems. Klein’s sonar have been used around the world to help find many famous shipwrecks including the Titanic. Klein is a fellow of the Explorers Club and the Marine Technology Society and an Associate Member of the Boston Sea Rovers. He is a member of the State-Industry Advisory Council of the M.I.T. Sea Grant Program and the Collections Committee of the MIT Museum.

Roduner, Vreni

Vreni has been a diver since 1975, first female divemaster of TSSC (1980), participated in the Aqua Women expeditions (1981-1993). 1986 part of REPEX, a NOAA-sponsored saturation excursion program for habitat diving. Awards: Women Divers Hall of Fame, BTS Medal of Excellence, BTS 20 Year Award for Loyalty & dedicated Service, TSSC Diver of the Year.

O’Leary, Timothy R.

Timothy O’Leary is the director of NAUI Worldwide Technical Diving Operations, Course Director for NAUI Worldwide, Inspector trainer for PSI and President of American Diving and Marine Salvage and Ocean Systems International. O’Leary received a BS in Zoology at Texas A & M University, a DMT and CHT from Jo Ellen Smith Medical Center at the Baromedical Research Institute. He has worked as a commercial Diving Instructor at the Ocean Corporation, a gas rack operator, a saturation diver/supervisor, diving superintendent and chamber supervisor for many commercial diving companies. O’Leary is a member of the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS), Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME), National Association of Diver Medical Technicians (NADMT), and is an Admiral in the Texas Navy.

Nuytten, R.T. (Phil)

Dr. R.T. (Phil) Nuytten is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Nuytco Research Ltd. and Can-Dive Construction Ltd. He was the founder and CEO of Hard Suits Inc., a publicly traded company that manufacturers the world famous “Newtsuit”. Nuytten was also a co-founder of Oceaneering International Inc., currently one of the largest publicly traded underwater skills companies in the world, with annual sales of nearly one billion dollars. Phil is widely regarded as one of the pioneers of the commercial diving industry and consistently has been a significant force in the development of new technology. He has logged hundreds of hours on experimental deep diving and testing of decompression tables, and was instrumental in the development and acceptance of modern Atmospheric Diving Suit (ADS) technology, the ‘Remora’, a submarine rescue system. Remora was described by the U.S. Navy during a NATO presentation as a major breakthrough in submarine safety. In 1998, Nuytten and his design team produced the 2000′ micro-submersible DeepWorker. In 1999, NASA contracted a pair of DeepWorkers to study their possible use in the recovery of the Space Shuttle booster rockets, and in 2000 DeepWorkers successfully recovered the Space Shuttle booster rockets from the May flight to the U.S. Space Station. Phil Nuytten has spent nearly forty years to developing undersea systems that have the safety of the diving technician as their common theme. His goal has been to provide scientific, technical, military, and sport divers full access to continental shelf depths without the hazards of decompression, so that humans can explore, learn about, and – ultimately – protect the world’s oceans.

Sheard, Bradley

Brad has been diving and taking pictures since 1977. He has spent the most of the past 25 tears pursuing his passion – photographing shipwrecks. He has two books on shipwrecks to his credit: Beyond Sportdiving: Exploring Deep Water Shipwrecks of the Atlantic (Menasha Ridge Press, 1991) and more recently, Lost Voyages: Two Centuries of Shipwrecks in the Approaches to New York (Aqua Quest Publications, 1998).

Barber, Julie

Upon completion of her year as the Our World Underwater scholar, Julie Barber moved north to Alaska where she studied the effects of sea otter foraging as a biologist for Glacier Bay National Park. During this time she also finished her Masters degree at the University of Rhode Island, researching the Dungeness crab fishery on the west coast. Julie recently accepted a marine ecologist position at the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries where she will be the head of a habitat enhancement project in Massachusetts Bay.

Sipperly, Dave

Dave is a US National Freediving Team Champion and a 3x USoA All American Freediver. He and Terry Maas co-authored, FreeDive! A Complete Guide to Breath Hold Diving. He is a NAUI/TDI Instructor Trainer and has been teaching divers of all levels since 1985. He has been the recpient of a NAUI Outstaning Service Award and has lectured about diving saftey throught North America. Dave is a member of the Boston Sea Rovers.

Salgo, Jeffrey

Jeff Salgo is President and Executive Producer for Aqua Rock Productions. He has produced documentaries on the disabled. Jeff has also been an associated director and produce with CBS for 30 years. A diver since 1988, he has traveled to strange and beautiful places and always looking for new underwater adventures.

Boyle, Bob

I have been diving since 1969. Attended Brooks Institute of photography- underwater division. I have been teaching underwater photography since 1975.

Gagne, Richard P.

A veteran public speaker and filmaker since 1990, Richard Gagne has traveled the world gathering fantastic images. With more than 3,500 dives, he has recorded a wide variety of marine life and behaviors.

Croff, Katy

Katy first became interested in ocean science and exploration in high school when she learned how to SCUBA dive in San Diego. She went on to earn her S.B. in Ocean Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and M.S. in Maritime Archaeology from the University of Southampton (UK), and along the way has participated in a number of maritime archaeology projects. Katy is now a PhD student in Archaeological Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography.

Babb, Ivar G.

Ivar Babb is the Director of the NOAA Undersea Research Center at the University of Connecticut. He received his M.S. from the University of Maine focusing his research on the physiological ecology of seaweeds. He then received a M.A. in Marine Affairs from the University of Rhode Island. He served as a John Knauss Sea Grant Fellow in 1987, working at the National Undersea Research Program which began his association with NOAA. He has participated as Chief Scientist or scientist on 37 research and education cruises in the Atlantic, Great Lakes and abroad. He is a NAUI certified scuba diver (>260dives) and has extensive experience with occupied submersibles (Delta, Johnson ¬Sea Link I & II, Clelia, NR l & Alvin) and ROVs (Minirover Mk I and Mk II, MaxRover Mk I, Phantom 300 and S2, Deep Sea Systems MaxROV and Hercules/Argus), mixed gas diving (NITROX) and their applications as research and education tools.

Killorin, Robert

Bob Killorin is a NAUI Instructor, Explorer Club Member. He is trained in trimix and cave diving. He has participated in several Explorer’s Club expeditions around the world including the Wakulla II project, body recovery of lost Marines in Butaritari Atoll, and an artifact investigation in Midway. He owns Bob’s Scuba and is a lawyer during the day.