Pandemic Madness Factoid Page

Steve Zissou

5/18/2020

Based on Jacques Cousteau, one of Wes Anderson's childhood heroes.
Like Cousteau Zissou's crew wore red knit caps and uniforms, and Cousteau's son Phillipe was tragically killed in a plane crash.
Page of interesting Zissou/Life Aquatic facts
Trivia question for audience: What is the occupation of the real Steve Zissou from New York that i slisted in the final credits of the movie? (A: Lawyer)
Link to Diving Almanac Page for Steve Zissou

5/18/2020

Hal Watts Divers Almanac Page
In 1967, he set a World Record Deep Air Dive to 119 meters (390'), which was acknowledged in The Guinness Book of World Records.
In 1970, Hal wrote and copyrighted the first manual for Extended Range Deep Diving for instructors and conducted specialty courses and certification for those interested.
1970 made a World Record Deep Air Dive in a cave to a depth of 414 feet
As of 9-9-99 Hal had taken 55 divers to depths between 100 m (300') and 127 m (415') with ZERO ACCIDENTS.
Link to Tek Dive Speaker Bio

5/18/2020

Edd Sorenson (born October 17, 1959) is a technical cave diver known for numerous rescues of lost or trapped divers in the underwater caves of Florida particularly in Vortex Spring and Blue Spring State Park.
In 1999, he joined International Underwater Cave Rescue and Recovery (IUCRR) as one of the original members and later founded Cave Adventurers in Marianna, Florida in 2003.
In April 2019 Sorenson successfully rescued Josh Bratchley, a British cave diver who assisted in the rescue of 12 boys and their soccer coach from a Thai cave, from Mill Pond Cave.
Edd's Wiki

5/18/2020

Was an Eagle Scout
Worked as a commercial hard-hat diver in Florida
Earned a Master’s degree in Geology from the University of Illinois.
Ph.D. in Oceanography from the University of Michigan.
He was also University of Michigan faculty for 30 years, teaching oceanography, scuba diving and diving technology, while serving as the university’s Diving Safety Officer.
Sea Grant’s lead researcher for Lake Lab (1970 in Grand Traverse Bay)
Authored the Research Diver’s Manual
He also worked with Dr. Martin Nemiroff (University of Michigan pulmonary specialist and diving medicine expert) on the famous cold water near-drowning research and outreach Michigan Sea Grant spearheaded during the late 1970s.
AAUS Obit
Founder and first president of the American Academy of Underwater Sciences.
A founding director and Director Emeritus of the Our World-Underwater Scholarship Society

5/18/2020

Pic from The Deep u/w with Nolte, Bissett, and Shaw.
The Deep (1977): Robert Shaw was paid $650,000 plus a percentage of the profits. Bissett and Nolte were paid $200,000 each.
The character of lighthouse keeper and diving and treasure expert Romer Treece (Robert Shaw) was inspired by real-life treasure seeker diver Teddy Tucker, who helped Peter Benchley write the novel. Tucker was hired as a special consultant to the production, and appeared in the movie playing The Harbor Master.
Author Peter Benchley can be briefly glimpsed as one of the U-boat shipmates in the prologue of the longer version of the film. The roles of the young Treece and Coffin were played by the sons of Robert Shaw and Eli Wallach.
Link to The Deep Movie trivia
Shaw died in Ireland 1978 from heart attack.

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Becky is an Emmy Award winning underwater videographer, DP, photographer, 3D camera operator, and technical diver.
She is also a Fellow in the Explorers Club
ImDb Page
Her Liquid Productions Website

5/18/2020

Rutkowski joined the US government service in 1950 as a government civilian and served during the Korean War until 1970 when NOAA was established.
He worked at NOAA from 1970 until 1985 as Deputy Diving Coordinator, Director of the NOAA Miami Hyperbaric Facility and Director of NOAA Diver Training.
Rutkowski is a NOAA aquanaut, having undergone saturation many times
In 1985, Rutkowski began the introduction and popularization of nitrox use within the recreational diving community.
Rutkowski founded several organizations to focus on diver training and safety including American Nitrox Divers International (ANDI), the International Association of Nitrox and Technical Divers (IANTD), and the Undersea Research Foundation (URF).
Rutkowski Wiki

5/18/2020

Richard Lawrence Pyle, Ph.D. (born 24 March 1967) is a scuba diver and ichthyologist working on Hawaii.
Pyle discovered the principle of "Pyle stops" when decompressing from many deep dives in search of new species of fish, and has identified hundreds of new species.
Found that they prevented his post-dive fatigue symptoms after deep dives to collect fish specimens
A Pyle stop is a type of short, optional deep decompression stop performed by scuba divers at depths well below the first decompression stop mandated by a conventional dissolved phase decompression algorithm.
Author of over 130 publications.
Pyle in X Ray Magazine
Pyle Stops Wiki

5/18/2020

Rosalia (Zale) Parry is an American pioneer scuba diver, underwater photographer and actress.
In 1954, Parry set a women's depth record to 209 feet
In 1953 she became a tester of underwater equipment for Scientific Underwater Research Enterprises.
Zale Parry Wiki
Pic from "Voyage to The Bottom of The Sea"

5/18/2020

Tom Mount is a technical diver and cave diver
In 1991 Tom Mount joined Dick Rutkowski in the newly formed by Rutkowski, IANTD.
Mount has published a number of technical diving texts, including the Technical Diver Encyclopedia, Exploration and Mixed Gas Diving Encyclopedia and Tek Closed Circuit Rebreather.
He was also a founding member of the National Association for Cave Diving
Tom's Bio at NACD
Tom's Bio at IANTD BoD