Divescapes - October 21-23, 2016 - Calgary, AB, Canada

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Another Speaker Announcement!!!

I am proud to announce that Evan Kovacs will be speaking at Divescapes!



Evan works with the Advanced Imaging and Visualization Lab at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution where he has been involved in and led numerous expeditions utilizing remotely operated vehicles (“ROVs”), submersibles and technical diving to survey and film everything from the R.M.S. Titanic to deep sea hydrothermal vents to underwater mountains off the New England coast.

Evan also owns and operates Marine Imaging Technologies, LLC, a company that specializes in imaging the underwater world for documentary, science, and survey purposes and he has worked in the marine environment for nearly two decades as an underwater director of photography, camera engineer and technical diver. Evan not only builds camera and lighting systems for these jobs, he is one of the few professional cinematographers qualified to use these systems at depths to 500 feet using scuba equipment and even deeper using manned submersibles, ROVs and AUV’s.

During the past 15 years, Evan has helped build and operate numerous imaging systems to film both above and below the water for broadcast television, museums, scientists and institutions across the world. His underwater and topside work can be seen on National Geographic, History Channel, Discovery Channel, PBS, CBC, BBC, NHK and elsewhere.

Evan Kovacs Production - Underwater & On the ground filming for TV and Movies

 

[abies]

Thanks Mark,
That should give me plenty of time to sort out baby sitting and what have you.

Ben

 

[markmantei]

Another Speaker Announcement!

I am pleased to announce that Steve Lewis, also known as Doppler here on Scubaboard, will be speaking at Divescapes.



Steve Lewis has been an active technical diver, instructor and expedition leader since the early 1990s when diving was an antidote to a career in marketing adventure tourism, and brand management. In 2002 he retired from the corporate world and became a dive bum full-time, and is currently a Dive Industry and Adventure Tourism consultant for clients in the private and public sectors.

Steve runs a blog concerned with dive safety, is a regular contributor of articles and essays for several online publications, and has written and co-authored several diving textbooks including the best-selling Staying Alive, and Six Skills and Other Discussions.

As a speaker, educator, and writer he is best known for promoting safe diving practices to technical divers using both open and closed-circuit kit, in caves, on wrecks and in open water environments. Among other awards, he is a recipient of the NSS-CDS Sheck Exley International Safety Award for 1000 logged cave dives, and was recently elected as a member of the college of fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society.

Welcome

Doppler's Tech Diving Blog

 

[markmantei]

Another Speaker Announcement!

I am pleased to announce that Faith Ortins will be presenting at Divescapes.



Faith has spent most of her adult life in the ocean. Starting as a scientific diver and volunteering for public safety diving operations in the 1980’s, Faith became a technical diver and divemaster and has thousands of dives over her 37 year diving career. She worked with DUI to develop some of the first women’s drysuits and now leads DUI’s sales team worldwide. She created the DUI DEMOTOUR, which promotes local diving while allowing divers to test dive DUI products, and the DIVEOPS program which promotes education about the risks of diving in contaminated water. She has led expeditions around the world including many to the most remote places on Earth. A frequent presenter at dive shows and conferences, she is a 2010 inductee into the Women Divers Hall of Fame and a member of the Boston Sea Rovers.

Dive Chronicles highlights Faith Ortins

 

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Another Divescapes Speaker Announcement!

Excited to announce that Christina Zenato will be speaking at Divescapes 2016.



Cristina is a shark expert and a professional in the field of work with these animals, an ocean explorer, an educator and a conservationist.

Her field of work with sharks is vast; she is best known for her capability to induce a relaxed state in sharks through a gentle touch and to keep them in her lap while removing hooks and parasites.

She has cooperated with numerous shark diving operations in the world where she has been able to observe and learn different methods of diving and interacting with sharks.

Sharks Savers and Wild Aid recognize her as Shark Ambassador.

At her home in the Bahamas, Cristina has explored and mapped several cave systems. She is the first woman to have connected an ocean blue hole with a land-based cave.

As a PADI Course Director, NSS-CDS Full cave diving instructor and TDI Technical diving instructor she is the educational programs manager for the Underwater Explorers Society with a team of twenty divers and she teaches diving at all levels from recreational to technical.

Cristina believes in the power of education and has dedicated countless time and energy in non-profit work. She supports several organizations with her time and skills, including Our World Underwater Scholarship Society and the Bahamas National Trust.

Cristina is a member of the Explorers Club, the Women Divers Hall of Fame, the Ocean Artists Society and the recipient of Platinum Pro 5000.

http://cristinazenato.com/

 

[markmantei]

Divescapes Speaker Announcement!

I am pleased to announce that Michael Pitts will be returning to speak again at Divescapes 2016. Michael also spoke at Divescapes 2012 in Edmonton.



Michael Pitts specializes in filming underwater and is regarded as one of Britain's foremost underwater cameramen. However, he is equally happy shooting on the surface or from the air. Amongst his many awards he has received Emmys for cinematography on two BBC landmark series: David Attenborough's 'Private Life of Plants' and 'Blue Planet'.

In 2012 he was responsible for the underwater filming of the Sir David Attenborough 3D series on the Galapagos produced by Sky/Colossus. Formatted for cinema the series was released as a film in selected UK cinemas in 2014. He has recently returned from the Falklands and Ascension Island after filming on the new BBC NHU series 'Atlantic'.

Currently he is working on his own production, which follows the changing seasons and the work of a landscape artist.

Michael has over 20 years experience of making wildlife and science documentaries for the BBC and Independent Companies. He works with a variety of camera systems including the RED Epic, the Arri Alexa and the Arri 435. He is now moving into the world of 3D acquisition.

Besides his filming work he also shoots stills and his work has appeared in numerous publications and books.

Michael Pitts - Underwater Cameraman