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From his
first SCUBA endeavor − operating a dive business in the
Bahamas from 1954 to 1958 − Waterman carried a camera with
him underwater, and has put it to admirable use. In 1965
he took his family − wife and three children − to Tahiti.
Their career was launched when National Geographic
purchased rights to their tropical odyssey. Over the
decades, he has continued to record his worldwide journeys
and adventures on film − most were ultimately purchased as
television documentaries. A few of his most memorable
efforts include a 1968 collaboration with Peter Gimbel on
the shark film classic Blue Water, White Death,
co-director of underwater photography for The Deep, and
ten years of production work with friend and neighbor
Peter Benchley for ABC's American Sportsman. Most recently
the Discovery Channel produced a two-hour biographical
special about Waterman's lifetime of underwater exploits
entitled The Man Who Loves Sharks.
Waterman
graduated from Dartmouth in 1946, where he studied with
Robert Frost and earned a B.A. in English. He has
maintained an appreciation of language and literature
throughout his life. He maintains residences in New Jersey
and Maine, where he is occasionally found when not hosting
dive expeditions around the equator.
www.stanwaterman.com
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