- Stan Waterman
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name = Stan Waterman
image_size=200pxStanton A. Waterman (born 1922), is a five-time
Emmy winning cinematographer and underwater film producer. [ [http://www.stanwaterman.com Stan Waterman Home ] ] [http://www.splashvision.com/Video/12476_Stan-Waterman-Toward-the-Edge-of-Extinction.html Stan Waterman: Toward the Edge of Extinction ( ocean sharks ) video clip ] ]Stan graduated from
Dartmouth College , where he studied with Robert Frost, in 1946 with a degree in English. [ [http://www.diveglobal.com/photography_film/the_greats/waterman.asp Dive Global :: Stan Waterman ] ] He began his SCUBA diving career in the Bahamas where he owned and operated a diving charter business from 1954-1958. His big break came in 1965 when he filmed a year-long family trip to Tahiti. National Geographic purchased the rights to the work and showed it on television. [http://www.scubahalloffame.com/hof/stan_waterman.html International Scuba Diving Hall of Fame ] ] He was a producer and photographer on the 1971 film "Blue Water, White Death" which was the first cinematic filming of theGreat White Shark .Stan was the subject of a
Discovery Channel biographical special titled "The Man Who Loves Sharks". [ [http://www.beneaththesea.org/attendinfo/headliners.html Stan Waterman at Beneath The Sea 2002 ] ] Working with his son, he won the first father and son Emmy for theNational Geographic Explorer production, "Dancing With Stingrays".Television credits include "The American Sportsman (1965)", "The Bermuda Depths (1978)", and "The Explorers (1973)" and film credits include "The Deep (1977)" and "Jaws of Death (1977)". [ [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0914013/ Stan Waterman ] ]
In 2005 Waterman wrote "Sea Salt: Memories and Essays, with Forewords by Peter Benchley and Howard Hall. [Stan Waterman. Sea Salt: Memories and Essays. Jacksonville: New World Publications, 2005.Edited by Ned DeLoach, Ken Marks, and William Warmus]
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