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 Paul "Doc" Anes
As
a 21st birthday present to himself he took scuba lessons
in 1969. After transferring to San Diego State U. in 1970
he signed up for the first advanced scuba certification
offered as an extension class taught by Mark Flahan who
is still the diving safety officer at SDSU. He progressed
as an assistant instructor helping Flahan with the basic
classes and eventually earned his NAUI instructor rating
in 1974 as Instructor # 3734.
After
graduation from SDSU he went back to an old skill of building
custom boats, until 1982 when he was offered the diving
operations manager position at the old Tortuga Club located
at the East End of Grand Cayman Is. That was some good
diving! He transferred to the Spanish Cove Resort at the
NW end of the island in 1984 where he focused on just being
a divemaster and boat captain. It was a pretty hot resort
back then. Peter Hughes subsequently asked Doc if he wanted
to take over the manager's position of Dive Bonaire. Doc
worked there until Sept of 1985 when he returned to San
Diego to get "re-civilized" Right back to building
boats again and an occasional captain gig until 1993 when
he got an "out of the blue" call from Bob Cranston.
Bob
owned San Diego Shark Diving at the time and was looking for
someone to come in and take over the business. The rest is
history. Now we're looking for new adventures with sharks
around the world. To hear it from Doc-"This is the one
job that really fits my personality, unfortunately now I've
gotten myself into a situation where I am no longer employable
at a "real" job so I'd better be good at the 'sharkin'."
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 Jessie
“SharkChick” Harper
Jessie
is one of the few shark diving women. This girl is fearless! Seriously,
she is an exceptional water person and really knows shark behavior.
Jessie developed a method of Great White Shark identification
that is being used in conjunction with data collection by the
Pfleger Institute of Environmental Research (PIER) to identify,
track and better understand the Guadalupe Island Great White
Sharks.
To
read more about Jessie and her work, as well as view video
on her Great White Shark identification project, please
click here!
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 Mary
Lynn Price
Mary
Lynn was one of our on-board videographers and DVD author.
She still consults with us and helps with web page development. She began her imaging work underwater filming sharks in the
Bahamas in 1995, and has since produced videos for film festivals,
art galleries and exhibitions, award-winning news segments
and packages, multimedia productions, and internet festivals
and showcases viewed worldwide. She's worked on a number of
documentaries, including a nationally aired PBS feature production.
She recently worked with Marty Snyderman to author the DVD,
"Marty
Snyderman on Sharks and Their Kin." Mary Lynn is
the founder of DiveFilm.com,
one of the first streaming video websites dedicated to showcasing
underwater video by filmmakers around the world. She's also
one of the founders and organizers of the San
Diego UnderSea Film Exhibition. Her latest adventure took her to Antarctica to do a special film series on women working at the bottom of the world. |
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 Bob
Gladden
Born
and raised in San Diego, CA, Bob Gladden was one of our
on-board videographers, DVD author and now-famous "PoleCam"
inventor.
Bob has
been in and around the ocean most of his life. Bob is a very
accomplished diver and underwater photographer / filmmaker
and an author. Since certification in 1963, Bob has been actively
diving for over 40 years, Bob's diving activities have included
commercial diving, search & recovery diving, research diving,
and as an underwater documentary photographer / filmmaker.
Bob picked up his first underwater camera over 20 years ago
and has been involved in capturing the wonders of our Ocean
Planet ever since. He continues to capture compelling images
of the marine environment, in order to open the eyes of this
world to the wonders of the underwater realm. His work has
been recognized with numerous awards, and his photos and articles
have appeared in numerous publications such as California
Diving News, Discover Diving and Skin Diver, and Rodale’s
Scuba Diving. His photos have been displayed at the Stephen
Birch and Monterey Bay Aquariums. His video footage has been
used on several commercial films and has been featured in
San Diego’s local TV newscasts, and on TV specials. A number
of his short films have been shown in numerous film festivals
around the country. Bob has also contributed a segment on
Manta Rays to Discovery Channel in 1999.
Bob is
also one of the founders and organizers of the San
Diego UnderSea Film Exhibition. Bob has now retired to the " island life" and lives in his hillside home just on the outskirts of Kona, Hawaii. |
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