Carl Douglas is 42 years old. A fully qualified mixed gas rebreather diver with 17 years experience, an avid historian and accomplished photographer, he is the co-founder of Deep Sea Productions, a Swedish documentary film production and book publishing company. What drives both Carl and Deep Sea Productions is a passion for investigating the unsolved mysteries of the sea. Since 1997, Carl and Deep Sea Productions have been leading a project with Sweden’s largest private marine survey company, MMT, to discover and document the numerous historical wrecks that are found in the Baltic Sea. To date they have discovered well over a hundred wrecks.
In 2004, for jointly leading the group that discovered a Swedish Air Force DC-3 Signals Intelligence airplane missing over the Baltic since 1952, he was awarded one of country’s highest civilan awards by the King of Sweden . This discovery was made into a highly acclaimed TV film and a book published in the same year.

In 2007 he led the diving and underwater filming of Deep Sea Productions’ largest documentary film project thus far – the 8 part ’Wreck Divers’ series for Swedish and Finnish National Television.

Carl has been an officer in the Swedish Army and Marines, served with the UN forces in Bosnia and worked as a security and knowledge-management consultant. He has been involved in a number of business ventures and now serves on the board of directors for several companies.

See: www.deepsea.se and www.mmtab.se

Issue 13 Submarine Missing in Action...Somewhere in the Baltic

Kim is currently an MA Candidate at East Carolina University in the Program of Maritime Studies. She has worked in the archaeological community since 1998, and spent two years working with the Blackbeard Shipwreck Project. Her time as an underwater archaeologist has taken her on projects from the Queen Anne's Revenge to the USS Monitor. Presently she is the Field Director for the Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program at St. Augustine Lighthouse and Museum. St. Augustine, Florida and the Project Archaeologist for the SS Commodore Project at Ponce Inlet Lighthouse, Ponce Inlet, Florida.

Issue 5 Blackbeards' Flagship, the Queen Anne's Revenge

Joan travels extensively in her lifelong quest for shipwreck exploration. Since 1996, she has been the Chairman of the "Shipwrecks and Our Marine Heritage" Room at "Our World-Underwater," the large annual scuba show in Chicago, where she lives. Her work has appeared in Immersed Magazine, and in 2003 she published the critically acclaimed "Diver's Guide to the Kitchen," an entertaining "cook-and-tell" book about food and underwater celebrities.
For further information check her website:
www.seawolfcommunications.com

Issue 1 The Legend of the Wreck of the Naked Lady

Gary is a noted author, lecturer, photographer, explorer, and deep-sea wreckdiver. He has authored more than three dozen books, and written scores of magazine articles with thousands of photographs published. He lectures extensively and conducts seminars on advanced wreck diving techniques, high tech equipment and wreck photography.
Visit his website: www.ggentile.com

Issue 1 Sharks & Wrecks
Issue 2 Ship Wreck Hang-Ups
Issue 3 The Spectacular President Collidge
Issue 4 Slinging Tanks for All Ocasions
Issue 5 Sitting Ducks: New Foundland's Bell Island

Kevin was the first Technical Diving Instructor outside the US. For the past 20 years he has been involved in developing diving equipment including the world’s first gas diving computers and more recently a closed circuit rebreather. He is an active cave and wreck diver who has completed many diving and filming projects. His wreck diving CV includes the Britannic (first expedition in 1997), the Lusitania and the Titanic in MIR submarines to name a few. In the last few years he has specialized in deep water filming for TV production. He has written several manuals on technical diving including a complete guide entitled “ Technical Diving from the Bottom Up”.

Issue 2 A Day to Remember Diving the Titanic

Eric is a widely published writer and photographer specializing in the underwater world. Author of three books and over five hundred articles, his work has appeared in posters, magazines, books, and CD’s, on subjects ranging from travel to diving history, instruction to equipment.

Issue 1 Diving Bikini's Nuclear Fleet
Issue 2 Shooting Wrecks

An Australian anesthetist and physician in diving medicine currently living in Vanuatu. A keen cave, rebreather and tech diver, he used a Nikon D100 in a Subal housing to create the images in this article. More of his photos can be seen at www.divedoc.net

Issue 9 Good Luck Comes in Threes

Joe Hoyt, the Our World Underwater Scholarship Society’s 2004 North American Rolex Scholar. He traveled around the world and shared some of his experiences with us.

Issue 3 Where in the World is Joe Hoyt?
Issue 4 Where in the World is Joe Hoyt?

Al Henneberry is a commercial fisherman and diver living near Halifax, Nova Scotia. Al has been going to sea and living on the water since he was a child. He began his diving career in 1992, branching off into commercial diving as well as being bitten by the technical diving bug in the mid-90’s. Shipwrecks and especially submarines are his passion. Al has worked around the world as a diver, boat and barge captain, and water safety specialist on such films and television series as K-19: The Widowmaker, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason and Survivor Amazon, Pearl Islands, and All-Stars. Email: diverberr@hfx.eastlink.ca

Issue 12 Forgotten Submarine HMS L-26

Cris, maritime historian and prize-winning underwater photographer, has explored Great Lakes waters for over 30 years and has written ten books, including the popular “The Great Lakes Diving Guide” and the two-volume “The 100 Best Great Lakes Shipwrecks” about these uniquely preserved freshwater wrecks and the dramatic stories behind them. His latest book, “Shipwreck Tales of the Great Lakes,” was recently declared a finalist for Book of the Year in a nationwide contest by Foreword Magazine. He has appeared on numerous television programs, including on the Discovery Channel and the History Channel. A Past President of the Underwater Archaeological Society of Chicago, he lives with his wife, writer and historian Joan Forsberg, in Chicago.

www.seawolfcommunications.com

Issue 1 The Dead Captain's Secrets
Issue 2 Chicago's Tragic Schooner the Wells Burt
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Issue 3 ...Unless Some Diver Discovers Her
Issue 4 The Christmas Tree Wreck
Issue 5 Flames on Lake Michigan
Issue 6 A Great Lake Queen Turned Widow Maker
Issue 7 The Mystery of the Murray Bay Wreck
Issue 8 The Ocean Wave
Issue 9 The Wreck Which Lies in Two Lakes
Issue 10 The Elusive Little Lady of Lake Huron
Issue 11 The Steamer Myron: Ironies & Ragedies
Issue 12 A Tale of Two Lake Erie Steamships
Issue 13 The Power of a Simple Schooner