Vann, Richard

Dr. Vann has spent his career in environmental physiology and operational diving with emphasis on understanding the physiology of decompression illness (DCI) and on developing procedures to avoid DCI. Beginning at Ocean Systems in 1967, he served as a Diving Engineer where, among other duties, he learned to compute decompression tables and acted as an experimental subject for dive trials to 650 feet. This was followed by four years in the Navy, two as the Diving Officer for Underwater Demolition 12. After receiving a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering at Duke University in 1976, he joined the faculty of the Duke Hyperbaric Center where he conducted experiments to investigate bubble formation and inert gas exchange, developed decompression procedures for scientific diving, and developed methods currently used by astronauts during extravehicular activity from the Space Station. As Research Director for the Divers Alert Network since 1992, he has investigated the causes of fatal and non-fatal injuries and published on dive computers, nitrox diving, flying after diving, prognostic factors in DCI therapy, flying with DCI, flying after DCI therapy, and first aid oxygen at sea level for DCI.

Hanlon, Roger

Roger is a Boston Sea Rover and an active diving biologist who gives frequent public talks and television presentations. Roger has been a frequent presenter at past Clinics, including on the Saturday Night Film Festival 3 years ago. Roger is gifted at conveying marine science research and discovery in simple, enjoyable terms to the diving community.

Daye, Sheri

Sheri Daye is a Mechanical Engineer, National Freediving Champion and World Record holder of ten different species including the prestigious yellowfin tuna. She is a co-inventor of the freediver’s safety vest and is a skilled technical scuba diver. Sheri is also the creator of the Florida Spearfishing Expo with proceeds for charity.

Pomponi, Shirley – Liberatore, Don

Dr. Pomponi is President and CEO of HBOI and has authored or co-authored more than 80 publications on marine biotechnology and biodiversity. Having led numerous research expeditions worldwide and logged more than 200 submersible dives, she chairs the NRC’s Ocean Studies Board, and serves on the Executive Committee of the Consortium for Oceanographic Research and Education, the U.S. Committee for the Census of Marine Life, and the Board of Trustees of the Women Divers Hall of Fame, into which she was inducted in 2003. Don Liberatore has been with HBOI since October 1977 and serves as Manager, Undersea Vehicles, and Chief Submersible Pilot for all HBOI manned vehicles. With over1,700 dives as a submersible pilot and over 200 as J-S-L diver/tender including mixed gas lock-outs to 300 feet, he has participated in the search and recovery of the Space Shuttle Challenger, excavation and documentation of the U.S.S. Monitor and the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald, and trips to the Galapagos Islands and Cuba to for the Discovery Channel, and IMAX Corporation.

Drogin, Steve

A fellow Sea Rover, Steve is a 67 year old diver who was certified in 1958. He has made over 6000 dives around the world. Steve built his 3 man sub “Deep See” so he could explore and see new and exciting things in the ocean between 200 feet and 1500 feet. The “Deep See” can stay down up to 6 hours.

Beaudry, Phillippe

Philippe is the founder and President of the Empress of Ireland Historical Society. An active historian and researcher for 36 years on the subject of The Empress of Ireland, 2nd largest disaster at sea in the peace time after the Titanic. He has made over 600 dives on this wreck and a guest speaker at more than 70 lectures in North America and Europe.

Green, Russ

Russ is with NOAA’s Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary in Alpena, Michigan. A former maritime archaeologist for the state of Wisconsin, Russ obtained his undergraduate degree from the University of Rhode Island and a graduate degree in maritime studies from East Carolina University. Russ has worked as a maritime archaeologist on projects along the east coast, in the Great Lakes, Bermuda and Micronesia. Trained in mixed gas and rebreather diving, Russ has led expeditions in the Great Lakes and worked on the Civil War ironclad USS Monitor. Most recently he joined the National Park Service for an archaeological investigation of a World War II B-29 airplane lost in Lake Mead, Nevada.

Stewart, Rob

Rob is an experienced diver and u/w photographer who joined the Los Angeles based Sea Shepherd Conservation Society aboard the Ocean Warrior for a four month expedition to deter shark poaching in Cost Rica and Ecuador. A wildlife photographer by trade he has traveled the world working for some really big magazines.

Giannotti, Amy

Amy is the project director for the Bermuda Caves Expedition 2006 and current President of the Cambrian Foundation. She is an aquatic ecologist, with experience in both freshwater and marine environments. Amy earned her M.S. in environmental science at the University of Virginia in 1999.

deNapoli, Dyan

Dyan deNapoli worked closely with the penguins at the New England Aquarium for 9 years. As a Senior Penguin Aquarist, she co-managed the penguin colony, hand-reared dozens of chicks, presented educational talks to thousands of visitors daily and worked with penguin field researchers around the globe. She worked as a rehabilitation supervisor during the oil spill rescue in South Africa. Her job at the NEAQ also included diving and caring for the animals in the GOT, and being a staff participant on a Bahamian fish collecting trip for the aquarium. Other dive experience includes diving New England, the Caribbean and Tobago.

Palermo, Rock

Rock Palermo is a PADI Master Instructor. Prior to becoming a lawyer, Rock served as the diving coordinator aboard the world’s largest live aboard, the M/V Ocean Spirit. He has worked as a hyperbaric medical technician and enjoys underwater photography. Rock had the great fortune of meeting his wife Kim while teaching scuba at LSU. Kim went on to become a scuba instructor and a mom. Their three children, Rachel, Ryan and Sarah, are water fanatics. Rock is a partner in the Lake Charles, Louisiana law firm of Bice, Palermo & Veron.

Broadwater, John D.

John is Program Manager for the Maritime Heritage Program at the National Marine Sanctuary Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). From 1992-2005 he was Sanctuary Manager of the Monitor National Marine Sanctuary, where he directed expeditions to the USS Monitor, which lies in 235 feet of water, 16 miles off Cape Hatteras, NC. During 1978-90, as Virginia’s first State Underwater Archaeologist, he directed a study of shipwrecks from the 1781 Battle of Yorktown (Virginia) and also developed a statewide underwater archaeology program. He has participated in numerous national and international underwater archaeological expeditions, served on numerous advisory boards, and published a variety of technical and popular articles on maritime history and archaeology. He has a Ph.D. in Maritime Studies from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland.

Sardi, Kate

Kate Sardi is a Senior Biologist in the New England Aquarium’s Rescue Department. She joined the Department in the summer of 2006. Prior to that time, she worked as the Assistant Director and Stranding Coordinator for the Whale Center of New England for 10 years. She has both a bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in marine biology.

Stanley, Rick – Moore, Steve

Rick Stanley is the President and Owner of Ocean Quest, Rick has a background in the Home Renovations Industry and learned to dive in the early 1990s as a recreational pastime. His passion for the sport rapidly grew and he soon realized the potential for diving tourism in Newfoundland & Labrador. Founding Ocean Quest in 1997, his commitment to the sport and preservation of underwater heritage is widely acknowledged and in addition to receiving numerous tourism awards and UNESCO recognition, he was appointed as advisor to Parks Canada on the subject of SCUBA Diving. A diving instructor, he is also an avid technical and cave diver and accomplished underwater photographer. Steve Moore is a TDI/SDI Instructor originating in the United Kingdom, Steve retired from the Royal Air Force after 25 years to pursue a new career in the diving industry. He learned to dive with the British Sub Aqua Club (BSAC) whilst based with the RAF in Ascension Island, South Atlantic Ocean and after getting the ‘diving bug’, organized several military diving expeditions on both sides of the Atlantic. Newfoundland became his favorite diving destination and he now lives there with his family and works with Ocean Quest as the Program & Expeditions Manage.

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.

Cheng, Eric

Eric Cheng has rapidly become known around the world for his expertise in underwater imaging. He has meticulously documented his travels around the world and has been published in numerous publications, both in print and on the web. Eric owns and runs Wetpixel.com, the premiere online resource for underwater photographers. Hosting thousands registered underwater photographers internationally, Wetpixel’s friendly community offers breaking news, reviews, features, community forums, image galleries, photo contests, photo expeditions, and more.

Drafahl, Jack & Sue

Jack and Sue Drafahl are husband and wife team of professional authors, undersea photojournalists, lecturers and multimedia producers. Their articles appear in noted periodicals like Sport Diver, Skin Diver, Petersen’s Photographic, Rangefinder and many more. They have been diving for over 34 years and were named Beneath the Sea Divers of the Year in 1996. Sue was an inaugural member of the Women Diver Hall of Fame. They have also authored several books on digital photography.

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).

Mazel, Charles

Charles Mazel, PhD, has been a pioneer in underwater fluorescence exploration and equipment development. He has participated in numerous expeditions to study the spectral properties of marine organisms, including dives in manned submersibles to 3,000′. Through his company NIGHTSEA he has made the equipment for viewing and imaging fluorescence available to sport divers, professional photographers, and marine scientists worldwide.

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.

Nadwidny, Brian

Brian Nadwidny has been diving since 1980 and started deep diving in 1996. His area of interest is in filming wrecks, with a special interest on the wrecks of Canada’s East Coast. Due to his landlocked location, traveling to dive is a necessity and has have made the most of it with trips worldwide. He is published in Diver Magazine and presenter at Shipwrecks 2006 and Divescapes 2006.

Handler, Mauricio

Mauricio Handler is a professional underwater photographer and expedition leader who’s work is represented by The National Geographic Image Collection. This is his second time presenting at Sea Rovers. Mauricio lives with his wife in Maine.

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.

McKinlay, Casey

Casey McKinlay is a renowned aquatic explorer with more than 15 years of active research and discovery experience. Casey is currently responsible for directing operations for the Woodville Karst Plain Project (WKPP) which is the most active and successful cave diving exploratory project in the world with more than one hundred members. Casey serves on the GUE Board of Directors and as an advisor to the Wakulla Springs Water Quality Working Group and Unit Management Planning Committee, promoting responsible use, study and protection relevant to water quality issues.

Hunter, Ryan – Douglas, Kate

Ryan completed his Scalli Internship during the summer of 2007 after graduating from Xaverian Brothers High School in Westwood, MA. He is currently attending Boston University pursuing a degree in Computer Systems Engineering, which he hopes will lead into a career developing Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV’s). Certified as an advanced open water diver, Ryan’s interests include diving, robotics, world politics, and web site development. 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.

Ellerbrock, John

John Ellerbrock is an avid scuba diver, underwater videographer and President of Gates Underwater Products, Inc.

Ellenbogen, Keith

Keith Ellenbogen is an underwater conservation based photographer and has travelled on assignments with conservation organizations to Madagascar, Fiji, and The Mediterranean Sea. After completing his MFA he was awarded a US Fulbright Fellowship in photography focusing on the marine environment in Malaysia. Keith is a Boston Sea Rover and teaches at Parsons School of Design in the Photography Department. Currently he lives in Brooklyn New York.

Heller, Jason

Jason first discovered the Internet as an e-commerce and marketing support tool in 1995 when he started marketing and selling records produced by his four independent record companies, online. His early success in building an international online business made him a convert to the power of marketing and selling online, and he left the music business to pursue a career in interactive marketing. When not solving interactive marketing issues, Jason is usually off scuba diving and taking underwater photos as a part time professional photographer. You can view his work at www.jasonheller.com.

Crawley, Annie

Dive Into Your Imagination with Annie Crawley, motivational speaker, photographer, filmmaker, author, and PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer. As a producer and publisher she has created an award winning series of books, DVDS, Educator Guides and iBooks to entertain, educate and awe you about life below the sea. Annie created Dive Into Your Imagination to change the way the next generation views the ocean and themselves. Her work has been published and broadcast worldwide. Find out more www.AnnieCrawley.com and www.DiveIntoYourImagination.com

Madden, Patrick – Spaulding, Annette – McMillan, Ken

Patrick Madden has been diving since 1968, He is a Certified Master Instructor/Instructor Trainer. He is a retired 26 year Veteran of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and was the dive supervisor and instructor of their Underwater Recovery Team in Manitoba Canada for 7 years. He has trained in u/w Archaeology, u/w Pollution & Sedimentology, and Marine Biology. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Association of Dive Rescue Specialists and a member of the Historic Diving Society. Annette has been diving for over 25 years and is a Certified Master Diver. She has worked in many countries and U.S. states on shipwreck searches and other archaeological projects. She also worked with Stan Waterman on the movie “The Deep” in Bermuda. She has been a member of an Underwater Search & Rescue Team based in Southern Vermont/New Hampshire since 1981, and is trained in underwater evidence recovery. She has worked with numerous police agencies in recovery of evidence in Vermont, New Hampshire and other states. Her memberships in professional associations include the Historical Diving Society and the International Association of Dive Rescue Specialists. Ken is a Marine Geophysicist and is President of McQuest Marine Sciences Limited of Burlington, Ontario. He has been involved in searches for shipwrecks and aircraft, both older and modern and found the War of 1812 warships, the “Hamilton” and “Scourge” in Lake Ontario. He developed a technique for recovering aircraft from deep water without using divers which was utilized to successfully recovery a historic Halifax WWII bomber from a deep lake in Norway. As well as a side scan specialist, he is an accomplished ROV pilot having been a student of the first ROV pilot in the world. He is a lecturer in Hydrography at York University and serves as Chairperson for both the Humber College Environmental Advisory Committee and for the Faculty of Science Advisory Council at the University of Waterloo.

Heather Knowles – David Caldwell

Heather Knowles and David Caldwell are the co-founders of Northern Atlantic Dive Expeditions, Inc. They operate their Salem, MA based dive charter boat, GAUNTLET year-round focusing on wreck diving. Both are members of the Explorer’s Club and the Boston Sea Rovers. They are also technical diving instructors through NAUI and TDI, and have had the privilege of exploring some of the world’s notable shipwrecks such as the Andrea Doria, Empress of Ireland, North American, and SS Republic among others.

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.

Heinerth, Jill

More people have walked on the moon, than have been to some of the places that Jill’s exploration has taken her right here on the earth. In recognition of her lifetime achievement, Jill was awarded the inaugural Medal for Exploration by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. She has also been recognized as Sea Rover of the Year. Her website www.IntoThePlanet.com provides links to her exploration and water advocacy efforts.

Shine, Jerry

Jerry Shine is the author of A Shore Diving Guide To New England and Nudibranchs Of The Northeast. His writing and underwater photography have also appeared in more than 100 publications worldwide, including Audubon, Wired, and National Geographic Adventure.

Sterner, Bob

Bob Sterner is a veteran journalist who edits Northeast Dive News and was co-author and editor of Immersed magazine. Assignments have taken the Findlay, OH native around the world. He has had stories and photos published in Scuba Diving, Alert Diver. Northeast Dive News, the Boston Globe, Skin Diver, and Underwater USA. See his latest adventures at www.sterner editorial.com.

Denoble, Petar J.

Dr. Petar Denoble is a Sr. Director of the Medical Research Department at DAN. After graduating medical school, Petar joined the Navy in the former Yugoslavia and specialized in naval and diving medicine. For thirten years he was involved with training, supervision and treatment of divers on open circuit, closed circuit, deep bounce and saturation diving. He has worked at DAN for the last twenty years. Petar is involved in developing the largest database of exposures and outcomes in recreational diving, monitoring of dive injuries, and the study, treatment and prevention of fatal outcomes.

Britnell, Jett

Jett Britnell is an internationally published marine photjournalist who has over 27 years of diving experience in British Columbia’s Emerald Seas. His cold water diving articles have appeared in many diving publications worldwide.

Morris, Richard

Producer and Cameraman Rick Morris, a frequent presenter at Sea Rovers and other Diving Symposiums. He has been diving for 38 years and has worked in the Broadcast Television Industry for more than 28 years. A PADI & HAS Instructor, Rick has traveled the world in pursuit of both his passion and avocation for diving this with his love of documentary film making. He has produced programs for PBS and National Geographic as well as working on productions for nearly all the networks and cablecasting companies. Rick also shoots news and sports as a freelance cameraman. He currently lives in Connecticut and can be found on the web at: www.eclipsetvproduction.com.

Kohl, Cris – Forsberg, Joan

Chris and Joan, a husband-and-wife team love to explore Great Lake shipwrecks. Joan has been the Chairman of the “Shipwrecks and our Marine Heritage” at “Our Wolrd Underwater” since 1996 and is author of “Diver’s Guide to the Kitchen”. Chris, a prize-winning photographer with a Master’s Degree in History, is currently president of the Underwater Archaeological Society of Chicago. He has written ten books, including the best selling “The Great Lakes Diving Guide”, and has appeared on the History Channel and Discovery Channel.

Rotman, Jeff

With over three decades of documentary, wildlife, and marine photojournalistic experience, award-winning photographer Jeff Rotman has secured his title as one of the top underwater photographers in the world. He has witnessed the changing underwater landscape over the course of his career, and what started as a passion for photographing abstract expressions of marine life soon developed into a detailed exploration and discovery of the human fingerprint on the environment, bringing awareness of this issue to countless magazines, newspapers, and photojournalism sources all over the globe. Among his recent honors, Rotman was recognized as the BBC Underwater Wildlife Photographer of the Year and was a two-time winner of the National Press Photographers Award for Science Pictures of the year. Jeff Rotman has published nineteen photographic books for both children and adults, and his photographs have appeared in numerous international news sources, school textbooks, and advertisements.

Buckley, George

Boston Sea Rovers Board of Directors Member,
Assistant Director of Harvard University’s Sustainability and Environmental Management program,
President of the Accolade Foundation of Bonaire, Prinicpal Investigator on over 25 Earthwatch Expeditions, consultant for NOVA-TV, past Vice Chairman of the EarthEcho Foundation and recipient of the Life Time Achievement Award from the US Environmenatl Protection Agency.

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.

Gilmore, Sgt. Blake

Sgt. Blake Gilmore has been with the Massachusetts State Police for almost 30 years, and with the Under Water Recovery Unit for 28 Years. He is a PADI Master Instructor An NAPD Instructor, ERDI Instructor and has been involved in several different recovery and Port Security missions for the US Navy, US Coast Guard, FBI, US Customs, Secret Service. He is also part of a 30 member team for the state of Massachusetts.

Greenhalgh, Debra

Debra Greenhalgh is founder of Scuba Made Easy LLc, NAUI Course Director/Instructor/BOD, Handicap Scuba Association Instructor, Handicap Instructor for Divers with Disabilities, Disabled Sports USA member, Wounded Warrior volunteer, cofounder of Divers for Hope LLC, Women Divers Hall of Fame member/BOD, Avie’s Ski & Sports Instructor, Federal Government Department of Defense Rhode Island Community Service Award, and Naval Undersea Warfare Center Excellence in Community Service.

Zimmaro, Chuck

Chuck Zimmaro started diving in the mid-1960s; diving exclusively on East Coast shipwrecks. Chuck has diving experience in NOAA submersibles. He has appeared in various History Channel specials and his articles, drawings and photographs have appeared in many magazines and books, worldwide.

Cavanaugh, Joe – Bourbon, Holly Martel

Joe Cavanaugh, currently REEF’s Director of Field Operations, has studied reproductive biology of long-finned squid, toxin accumulation in Sperm whales in Papua New Guinea, the effects that power plants have on New England bays, and is now looking at fish assemblages in the tropical western Atlantic. Holly Martel Bourbon, currently the Dive Safety Officer for the MA Division of Marine Fisheries/Marine Fisheries Institute and recently participated in a REEF lionfish expedition in the Bahamas and also co-led the September Northeast survey effort with Joe Cavanaugh.

Cousteau, Alexandra

Alexandra Cousteau is dedicated to advocating the importance of conservation and sustainable management of water resources for a healthy planet and productive societies. As part of the third generation of her family to devote their lives to exploring and explaining the natural world, she has most recently spent two years working in Central America with local environmental groups on marine resource management with a special focus on shark conservation. She is co-founder of EarthEcho International, an organization she started with her brother, Philippe to further her family’s legacy in science, advocacy, and education. Alexandra has published articles in publications internationally and appeared in documentaries and films in the US and Europe.

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.

Gatto, Steve – Packer, Tom – Moyers, Harold

Tom Packer and Steve Gatto have been exploring and photographing offshore shipwrecks from Nantucket to Florida for 29 years, including 20 years of diving on the Andrea Doria. They both shoot still photographs and video cronicling history before it is lost forever to future generations, due to the corrosive action of the sea. Harold Moyers is a wreck diver and operator of the dive boat Big Mac. He is a veteran of deep wrecks from the Andrea Doria to the wrecks of the New York mudhole, and East Coast.