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As a world-renowned marine photographer, award-winning filmmaker and dedicated environmentalist, Bob Talbot has combined his unique visual style and storytelling ability with state-of-the-art entertainment technologies to create intimate ocean experiences on film.

His photographs of whales and dolphins have been reproduced into millions of lithographs distributed around the world and his motion picture work has appeared in many television, film and special venue productions. Talbot filmed the wildlife sequences for the Warner Bros. series of FREE WILLY feature films and Universal Pictures' FLIPPER. He directed and photographed the IMAX® RidefilmTM motion simulation system film DOLPHINS - THE RIDE, and acted as a director and cinematographer for sequences in the Academy Award-nominated MacGillivray Freeman IMAX® film, DOLPHINS. Most recently, Talbot directed and photographed the award-winning IMAX® film OCEANMEN –EXTREME DIVE about world champion free divers Pipin Ferreras and Umberto Pelizzari.
 

Talbot is a recipient of The Environmental Hero Award presented by the United States Department of Commerce as well as the Ark Trust Genesis Award. In 2004 he was presented with International SeaKeepers Society prestigious SeaKeeper Award by HSH Prince Albert of Monaco.

Talbot has worked on several Cousteau Society productions and continues to collaborate with Jean Michel Cousteau on Ocean Futures projects. He serves on the Board of Governors for Oceana, on the boards of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and Heal The Bay, and is Chairman of The Board of Trustees for The National Marine Sanctuary Foundation. Talbot also works with several other environmental groups on marine conservation issues. 

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Residing in Solana Beach, CA, Marty Snyderman is a film producer, Emmy Award winning cinematographer, still photographer, author and speaker specializing in issues concerning marine wildlife and the marine environment. Marty serves as the Marine Life Editor for Dive Training Magazine and is the long time author of the magazine’s What’s That, Always Learning and Behind The Lens columns.

Marty’s images have also been used by National Geographic Magazine, numerous National Wildlife Federation publications, Natural History, Time, Newsweek, the Mandalay Bay Aquarium, Monterey Bay Aquarium, New England Aquarium, and Seattle Aquarium, and by numerous other publications and organizations expressing interest in the marine environment both in the United States and overseas. He is the author of ten books.

Marty’s film work has been seen on the PBS series Nature, numerous Discovery Channel programs, including To Be With Sharks  (View From The Cage), the second most widely watched premier in the history of Shark Week at the time it aired, the Warner Brothers hit (Free Willy, and a variety of programs that were aired by the British Broadcasting Corporation, NOVA, the Public Broadcasting System, CBS, and ABC.
 
Marty has been teaching underwater photography for almost 30 years and he takes a lot of pride in helping his students learn about and enjoy their own underwater photographic adventures.

2009 Marty Snyderman Charters

Fiji Aggressor II
November 14-21, 2009

Stan Waterman is truly one of SCUBA's early pioneers. While operating a dive business in the Bahamas in the 1950's, he shot his first 16mm film-and was hooked. For the next 15 years, he continued to document his dive exploits under the seven seas; most were ultimately shown as TV documentaries. Stan's perhaps best known for his commercial film work. He was Associate Producer and Underwater Cameraman for that shark classic, Blue Water, White Death. Co-Director of Underwater Photography and second unit for The Deep, Stan has also been responsible for ten years' worth of production on ABC's "American Sportsman Show" and, more recently, ABC's "Spirit of Adventure" series and the "Expedition Earth" series on ESPN. Stan's trips do not include a photo course.

2009 Stan Waterman Charters

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Chuck Davis has traveled the globe making films. He's a specialist in filming on, under and around aquatic environments from the freezing Antarctica and Greenland to the heat and humidity of the Amazon. Davis' assignments include working with Jean-Michel Cousteau and his father on 17 filming expeditions worldwide for the Cousteau Society television programs as a cameraman aboard vessels Alcyone, Calypso, and special flying teams. For other U.S. and foreign producers he has filmed for ABC, CBS, PBS and Discovery/Learning Channel network documentaries as well as theatrical movies and television commercials.

He has worked as a director of photography and/or camera operator on several IMAX and IMAX-DOME feature documentaries such as RING OF FIRE (undersea lava scenes), SEARCH FOR THE GREAT SHARKS, the Academy Award-nominated ALASKA: SPIRIT OF THE WILD, WHALES, THE GREATEST PLACES, and AMAZING JOURNEYS. He also filmed underwater footage in Monterey Bay for the Academy Award nominated IMAX film, THE LIVING SEA. Davis worked as an underwater camera operator on the Warner Brothers feature film, SPHERE and his production experience includes work on C.L.I.O. Award-winning commercials and CINE Golden Eagle Award-winning documentaries. He is currently working as director of photography for a new one-hour PBS television documentary about gray whales which is being produced by Jean-Michel Cousteau.

Davis holds degrees in fisheries biology from the University of Massachusetts/Amherst and in filmmaking from the Brooks Institute of Photographic Art and Science in Santa Barbara, California. The main thrust in Davis' personal work is helping to stimulate marine environmental awareness and conservation via the use of marine and underwater imagery.

Join Chuck for a diving expedition with Aggressor Fleet to hear his stories, tales and knowledge in filming around the world. Chuck will give nightly presentations after a full day of diving.

2009 Chuck Davis Charters

Utila Aggressor
December 12-19, 2009