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BENEATH THE SEA ‘s annual Undersea
Exposition and Dive Travel Show will be
at New Jersey’s Meadowlands Exposition
Center in Secaucus, New Jersey March
27th , 28th and 29th , 2009.
 The
Beneath the Sea Saturday Evening
International Underwater Film Festival
will be held at the Sheraton Meadowlands
Hotel, and David Doubilet will be the
Master of Ceremonies. As you can see,
David is accustomed to hosting large
gatherings, so you will not want to miss
his mastery Saturday evening, March
28th, when he calls to order the Beneath
the Sea International Underwater Film
Festival.
 David
Doubilet has spent a lifetime
photographing our fragile underwater
world since he first put his Brownie
Hawkeye camera in a rubber
anesthesiologist’s bag at the age of 12.
He has witnessed and photographed a sea
change from robust teeming seas to a sea
in peril from over fishing, habitat loss
and global warming. His personal and
professional challenge is to capture the
essence of our planet’s oceans from the
smallest plankton to the largest
predators and to make an image that can
make a difference. David is a
contributing author and photographer for
the National Geographic Magazine where
he has photographed over 70 stories
since his first assignment in 1971. He
is a feature columnist, contributing
editor and author of numerous books on
the sea.
David is honored to have received
many prestigious awards and recognitions
including: DEMA Reaching Out Award. The
Lennart Nilsson Prize for Scientific
Photography, Explorer’s Club Lowell
Thomas Award and the Golden Plate Award
as a member of the Academy of
Achievement Class of 2008. David is a
member of the International Scuba Diving
Hall of Fame, a fellow of the Royal
Photographic Society, a founding member
of the International League of
Conservation Photographers and was named
a Contributing-Photographer-in-Residence
at National Geographic Magazine in 2001.
Beneath the Sea is honored to have
David Master our Ceremonies. |
