Lights! Camera! Sub Action!: Underwater Adventures in the Film and TV Industry
About this ebook
Those few simple breaths were to change his life forever.
The sheer fantasy of floating weightless over coral reefs, mysterious shipwrecks and wondrous marine life had to be experienced to be believed.
It was the ultimate adventure.
And it is an adventure that through exploration and film has taken him to the oceans of the world, revealing sights few are privileged to witness.
From filming World War II battleships a hundred and fifty feet down in the South China Sea, to recovering five hundred year old Lucayan Indian skulls deep inside the Blue Holes of the Bahamas.
From supervising underwater stunts on the glossy horror flick Leviathan, to reassuring Indiana Jones before another hazardous ordeal.
From car chases with Russian scientists in pursuit of an escaped beluga whale, to filming in NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Simulator where astronauts train for complex missions in space.
These and other challenges make up LIGHTS! CAMERA! SUB ACTION!
About the author
Mike learned to dive when he was fifteen, and following a degree in marine biology and qualifying as a diving instructor, he has run a dive school in London, led trips around the world, and worked extensively in the film and TV industry.
The roles have ranged from safety and co-ordinating on feature films, commercials, pop-promos and TV productions, to camera work on documentaries, news reports and other video projects.
He has also written and directed a documentary on the development of rebreathers for the Discovery Channel, as well as numerous training and promotional videos.
Many of these adventures are documented in the book, LIGHTS! CAMERA! SUB ACTION!
In parallel to the underwater work, he has always had a love of writing. This has led to a number of screenplays, interactive digital books and the John McCready series of novels.
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