We are excited to announce that for our January 2013 meeting, Dan Crowell will be our guest speaker. Dan is a legend in the diving community and one of the few Scuba Divers who has taken his passion for diving to levels most can only dream of. He's the former Skipper of the dive boat the "Seeker", a former commercial hardhat div … Read More
Ever wonder what it’s like to go on an extended underwater photography assignment to some of the ocean’s most diverse locations?
At September’s NYUPS join photojournalist Joe Tepper as he recounts and regales the crowd with the epic adventure of his recent 40-day Indo-Pacific assignment. For more than six weeks Joe traversed the … Read More
Evan Kovacs is currently working with the Advanced Imaging and Visualization Lab at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, which has had him filming with the deep submersible ALVIN, the ROV Jason and elsewhere around the world. At our August meeting Evan will talk about past and upcoming projects.
Currently he is working with the lab to develop the … Read More
People go scuba diving for many reasons. Some divers are interested in the natural beauty of coral reefs, and the animals that call this environment home. Wreck divers are interested in man-made objects that have ended up underwater by disaster. Ships sink because of bad maintenance, fire, weather, collisions and war. Once sunk, the wreck becomes a … Read More
Matt Weiss and Keri Wilk from DivePhotoGuide recently took the Nikon D800, Nauticam housing, and Sea & Sea YS-D1 strobes to Mexico. They gave all this new gear a complete workout in the Cenotes of the Yucatan Peninsula. Besides all the new toys, the team brought down 17 strobes! Their plan was to photograph these beautiful decorated cave systems th … Read More
Howard Rosenstein is a photographer and explorer based in the Red Sea. He worked on eight National Geographic features over a span of 30 years with David Doubilet and Dr. Eugenie Clark. At our May NYUPS meeting Howard will talk about exploring and photographing the Red Sea since 1971.
Howard Rosenstein grew up in Southern California, his first SCU … Read More