Dave Allen has been diving for almost four decades. His video footage has been featured on Animal Planet, CBS, NBC and ABC, as well major TV networks in the Philippines. A former serious saltwater reef tank hobbyist, a pastime requiring a thorough knowledge of the marine environment and the biology and behaviors of macro marine animals, Allen now prefers to leave them in the wild, but bring back amazing macro and wide-angle marine life footage and spectacular picture postcard perfect tropical vistas from the most amazing dive and nature destinations of the world.

Bonnie J. Cardone was certified in 1973 and worked as an editor/writer/photographer for Skin Diver Magazine for 22 years. For the past 11 years, she has been a freelance photojournalist. Besides Skin Diver, her work has appeared in Alert Diver, California Diving News, Canada's Diver magazine, Sport Diver and Mystery Scene. She has authored two books, Shipwrecks of Southern California and Fireside Diver, and is an original inductee of the Women Divers Hall of Fame, a 1999 recipient of the California Scuba Service Award and a 2009 recipient of the NOGI Award for the Arts.

Jack and Sue Drafahl are a husband and wife team who has devoted their lives to both pursuing and teaching concepts of underwater photography. Their articles have appeared in Skin Diver, Sport Diver, Diver, Dive Training, Petersen's Photographic, Rangefinder, and many more.

Jack and Sue started their professional photographic careers at Brooks Institute of Photography, Santa Barbara, California and Jack developed the school's Audio Visual Department. Both received their diving certification in the early '70s and are Platinum Pro 5000 divers. They were awarded Divers of the Year from Beneath the Sea in 1996, and are members of the International Accolade Foundation for their efforts to protect, manage, and educate the population about ocean and reef conservation. Sue is an inaugural member of the Women Divers Hall of Fame and is an Honorary Trustee.

Jack and Sue have been actively involved in digital imaging for over 20 years including serving as a Beta tester for Adobe, Kodak, Applied Science Fiction, Corel and more. In 2004, they founded the Oregon Coast Digital Center, an enhanced learning facility featuring in-depth Photoshop courses. In order to guarantee personalized instruction, class size is limited to four students. They recently released a DVD Tutorial series containing Basic and Advanced lectures on using Photoshop and Elements with underwater images.

Jack and Sue make their home on the Oregon coast but enjoy teaching photo seminars and leading digital diving trips worldwide. Jack and Sue have written several photography books including Master Guide for Underwater Digital Photography, Adobe Photoshop for Underwater Photographers, Digital Imaging for the Underwater Photographer, Photo Salvage, Step-by-step Basic Digital, Advanced Digital Camera Techniques and Plug-ins for Adobe Photoshop.

Lieutenant John Kades has been an investigator/deputy coroner for the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office for 10 years. He is a member of the department's Special Operations Response Team (SORT) that specializes in disaster operations, aircraft fatalities, weapons of mass destruction incidents, drowning/SCUBA cases, and skeletal/buried body cases. John has personally investigated most of the diving-related fatalities that have occurred in Los Angeles County in the past eight years. Prior to working for the coroner's office, he spent 14 years as a member of the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Underwater Search and Recovery Team. John has been a certified diver since 1979.

Josh Kaye-Carr is a park ranger with the National Park Service posted to Channel Islands National Park, headquartered in Ventura, California. In addition to his ranger duties, Josh also provides primary video, audio and photo support for the Channel Islands Live! interactive underwater video program. Additionally, Josh is responsible for all the multimedia and audiovisual activities at Channel Islands National Park and provides support services to the Park's partners.

Along with his work as a National Park Service diver and a naturalist with the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary, Josh administers the cetacean photo-ID program for the Marine Sanctuary in partnership with Cascadia Research Collective based in Olympia, Washington. In 2006, Josh received the Naturalist of the Year award from the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary. A diver since the age of eight, Josh currently logs an average of 150 to 200 dives each year with his wife Staci.

Josh is also an independent media producer, founder and co-owner of Parrotfish Productions, specializing in nature/documentary filmmaking with an emphasis on underwater video. Parrotfish Productions has produced commercial, promotional, public service, and documentary programs since 1987. His clients include, American Oceans Campaign, The California Marine Mammal Center, the Marine Mammal Fund, Ocean Futures Society, The Nature Conservancy, NBC, Sony, the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary, the Channel Islands National Park, and the U.S. Coast Guard.

Prior to his independent production and government work, Josh produced corporate and industrial video presentations and multi-media events for the Northrop Corporation, specializing in aircraft and missile areas, primarily DoD classified. He also functioned as Senior Photographer, Audiovisual Writer/Director, Employee Communications Specialist, and Senior Videographer. Other experience includes three years as a biological photographer at St. Joseph's Medical Center and two years as co-owner of Thought Process Press, a commercial lithographic company.

Dale Sheckler is a Southern California native who has worked around the world as a commercial deep-sea diver, mostly on deep-water oil field projects. For the last 25 years he has served as editor/publisher for California Diving News. Dale has authored several books, most notably: Southern California's Best Beach Dives and Successful Underwater Hunting and Gathering, California Edition. Dale is the producer of SCUBA Show 2010. Dale is also an Ordained Deacon in the Catholic Church spending his non-diving time working with the poor.

Patrick Smith a certified diver since 1961, and NAUI instructor since 1979 has logged nearly 6,000 commercial, research and recreational dives. He holds a masters degree in history and is co-author of Shipwrecks of Southern California, and many popular and academic articles for California Diving News, Skin Diver Magazine, Sub Aqua Journal, Pacific Diver and Los Angeles Times Magazine. He is a member of the Los Angeles Maritime Museum Research Society, and is a consultant to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Park Service, US Army Corps of Engineers, Mineral Management Service, and the State of California. He currently holds a US Coast Guard license for vessels up to 100 tons.

Dr. Tabby Stone is a practicing pediatrician in the Los Angeles area. He has been an avid diver since his initial certification in 1979 and developed an interest in diving medicine. He is a past President of the Pacific Chapter of the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society and wrote the "Medical Fact" column for Discover Diving from 1988-1999.

Bruce Watkins is a photojournalist specializing in marine topics. Bruce is a regular contributor to California Diving News, and over 400 of his articles and over a 1,000 of his photographs has appeared in national and international publications. He is the author of A Diver's Guide to Monterey County and A Diver's Guide to Northern California, both published by Saint Brendan Corp.

Berkley White is the founder of Backscatter Underwater Video & Photo, a specialized underwater imaging equipment distributor with locations on the east and west coasts of the U.S. Berkley is also a regular author and photographer for international diving magazines and runs a full schedule of photo safari trips for new and advanced shooters.

Gretchen M. Ashton Ashton is registered with the National Board of Fitness Examiners. An advanced diver, personal trainer and fitness therapist, she specializes in lifestyle fitness and overcoming orthopedic challenges. Gretchen developed comprehensive peak-performance strength programs for local eco-adventure teams, fire fighters and athletes. As a public speaker and columnist, she has been featured on radio, local television news and in newspapers. As an athlete, she became the second woman in AAU Power Lifting history to receive Hall of Fame recognition, setting 21 American and World Records. Gretchen was recently published in Alert Diver magazine and is the owner of ScubaFit.

Annie Crawley launched DiveIntoYourImagination.com She has lived and worked around the world for the past 17 years from Indonesia to Galapagos, Belize to Papua New Guinea. Originally from Chicago, Annie now lives in Santa Barbara, California. Her work has been published in magazines, environmental institutions and broadcast worldwide. Her personal mission is to inspire children and adults to dive into their imagination and live their dreams. 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. Annie is a member of the Ocean Artist Society, a master scuba diving instructor, 100-ton boat captain and motivational speaker.

Szilvia Gogh started scuba diving when she was 13 years old as a member of a dive club in Budapest, Hungary. As a diver she competed in orienteering diving for several years. It was a long journey from being a competitive orienteering diver in Hungary to become a PADI Course Director. It was an exhilarating accomplishment for her because she was the youngest female Course Director worldwide ever accepted for this highly respected program. She is still the only female Hungarian Course Director. As a PADI Course Director, and expert in navigating underwater, she serves as a trainer for new divers and for very experienced, such as the LAPD Search & Rescue Dive Instructors. She also has a Travel Agent license and just finished a Photojournalism program in Pasadena, California.

She has lived and taught scuba diving in Malta, England, Thailand, and currently in Los Angeles. Szilvia have been in Fiji, Cocos Island, Trinidad and Tobago, Australia, New Zealand, and all over Europe. She loves to travel off the beaten path to expose herself to anything new and unusual, as she believes this is how one can learn about local cultures and people.

Captain Lawrence Groth is one of the pioneers of North American white shark diving. After enjoying a long successful career as a commercial diver and professional mariner, Lawrence founded Great White Adventures in 1998 and now travels around the world diving with sharks.

Karl Huggins has been the Director of the Catalina Hyperbaric Chamber Facility at the USC Wrigley Marine Science Center since 1992. He is noted for his work in decompression theory and models, which resulted in the Michigan Sea Grant (HUGI) tables and his participation in the development of the EDGE dive computer. Karl is the 1990 recipient of the Leonard Greenstone Diving Safety Award, the DAN/Rolex Diver of the Year for 1993, the 2004 Conrad Limbaugh Memorial Award for Scientific Diving Leadership and the 2008 California Scuba Service Award

Ken Knezick is owner and President of Island Dreams Travel in Houston, Texas. He has logged more than 3,200 scuba dives and thousands of hours underwater, quite literally around the world. From the Caribbean to the Pacific, his travels include most of the world's great diving destinations. From 1983 through 2007, Ken served as executive director of Houston's SEASPACE Exposition. He is past president of Houston International Diver's Club, and is a founding member of both the Houston Underwater Photographic Society (HUPS), and G.R.E.A.T., the Gulf Reef Environmental Action Team. At DEMA 2003, Ken was honored with induction into the SSI Platinum Pro 5000 Society. At SEASPACE 2005, Ken was named recipient of the PADI Project Aware / SEASPACE Environmental Awareness Award. This prestigious prize recognizes individuals and organizations that are working to enhance understanding of the marine environment, and the importance of its protection. An accomplished underwater photographer, when not actually underwater, Ken enjoys writing short stories, travelogues, and presenting seminars and workshops at dive shows around the U.S.A.

Ken Kurtis was kicked out of swim class twice by the time he was six (he didn't like putting his face in the water). Hardly an auspicious start to a diving career. But Ken always loved being around the water, loved looking at fish, and in 1978 while running a radio station in Richmond, VA, was offered a chance to get certified and took advantage of it. Ken then became a NAUI Instructor (Top Candidate at his 1980 ITC) and has logged almost 5000 dives all over the world in such varied places as the Maldives, Indonesia, Yap, Tahiti, Bonaire, Cocos, Alaska, and, of course, his beloved waters of Southern California. Ken is the owner of Reef Seekers Dive Co., speaks frequently to dive clubs about diving techniques and safety issues, has been chairman of Chamber Day/Eve since the early 90s, is a member of the Statewide Interests Group for the MLPA, and a volunteer dive team leader at the Aquarium of the Pacific. Ken is an accomplished photographer and his photos and stories can be found in the pages of the California Diving News, Sport Diver, Skin Diver, and other scuba publications, along with the monthly Reef Seekers newsletter. Since 2003, Ken has been a Forensic Consultant to the L.A. County Corner for scuba fatalities, doing equipment testing and accident analysis. With all that, he still finds time to maintain an acting career and leads most of the local and foreign trips for Reef Seekers. He's a very good cook, avid Scrabble & Boggle player, chases total solar eclipses, ran five L.A. Marathons, is kind to animals and small children, and now has a fantasy about making the U.S. Curling Team for the 2014 Olympics. Be sure to ask him his mantra about divers.

Nancy J. McGee has trained nearly 1000 divers and led diving expeditions to six continents. She promotes the dive industry, the ecology of the sea, and the sport of scuba diving by filming and producing documentaries showing marine animal behavior, diving destinations, coral reef health and local culture. Nancy is a frequent presenter to schools, clubs, and community service groups, and is a featured speaker and emcee for national and international dive shows and film festivals.

Nancy conducts group tours and films in many of the world's most exotic dive locations, some so remote the local natives have never before seen Western people. She has filmed for NBC and Discovery, and written for a variety of dive journals and publications. She was a 2008 inductee into the Women Divers' Hall of Fame.

Stan Waterman is one of the true pioneers in today's diving community. In 1954 he had the first live-aboard dive boat in the Bahamas. Over the years he has produced over 50 documentary films and videos that have been featured in film festivals and seminars in the U.S. and England. The Discovery Channel produced a 90-minute documentary on him and his family entitled, "The Man Who Loves Sharks." The story of his year in French Polynesia was an hour special by National Geographic. He received five Emmy awards for his work with the networks in the U.S. He was a cameraman for two theater -release films, The Deep and Blue Water, White Death.

Stan is a seminal inductee into the International SCUBA Divers Hall of Fame and a Trustee of the Women Divers Hall of Fame. At age eighty-seven he still travels the world's oceans to dive and produce documentaries. His book, Sea Salt is in its third printing.

A graduate of Dartmouth College he studied with Robert Frost and is known as an eloquent speaker.