information compnay in Toronto, Canada. Physician who has spent 30 years studying the relationship between the human body and the ocean. Co-executive producer of the 1991 project which involved the filming of the Titanic. The $7 million project, which involved 17 dives to the Titanic, resulted in a 90 minute IMAX film called Titanica. Also a writer who last year published two books Saving the Ocean, and Titanic: In a New Light.

Eugenie Clark, Ph.D.: Professor of zoology at the University of Maryland, in College Park, Maryland since 1968. She is a shark expert, often reffered to as the "shark lady'', who has spent the past 30 years studying the behaviour of sharks. She is now concentrating on deep sea sharks and in the last four years has made 68 dives in deep sea submersibles to depths between 1,000 and 12,000 feet in Grand Cayman, Bermuda, the Bahamas, California and Japan. She has received three fellowships, four scholarships, three medals, and 18 other awards for her in marine bilogy, conservation and writing.

Steven K. Katona: President of the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbour, Maine. Marine scientist who has been teaching biology at the College of the Atlantic (COA) since 1972. He founded the COA's marine mammal research group, which concentrated on photo-identification studies of humpback and finback whales. He has conducted research in the Gulf of Maine, Bermuda, Dominican Republic, Alaskan Arctic, and Baja California. He co-chaired the National Marine Fisheries Service Humpback Whale Recovery Team from 1987 to 1991.

Steve Blasco: Professional engineer and marine geologist. Works at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Canada's largest centre for ocean research, located in Darmouth, Nova Scotia. Involved in a study of the geology of the sea floor and was involved in the Titanic project, studying the nature of sediments on the Titanic in 1991. Also a geologist for the Geological Survey of Canada, a branch of the federal government of Canada, which has a mandate to map the mineral resources of Canada.

Peter Benchley: Author of bestselling books Jaws and The Deep. His most recent novel was Beast, whose hero was modelled after the character of Teddy Tucker.

Benchley, who lives in Princeton, New Jersey, is in charge of the Boston-based Friends of Underwater Exploration, which raises money throughout North America for the Institute.

William Graves: Became editor of National Geographic Magazine in Washington, DC in 1990, after serving as the Magazine's senior assistant editor for expeditions. He joined the Magazine in 1956 as a legend writer before moving to the articles department. He has written 22 National Geographic articles.

His assignments for the Magazine have taken him to every continent and the North Pole.

John Carter: President of the Philadelphia Maritime Museum, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Former director of the Maine Maritime Museum in Bath, Maine, and curator of maritime history at the Peabody Museum (now the Peabody Essex Museum) in Salem, Massachusetts. Former president of the Council of American Maritime Museums and vice president of the International Congress of Maritime Museums.

Dale R. Calder, Ph.D.: Curator in the department of invertebrate zoology at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. Is a marine scientists who has conducted research on hydroids for the past 30 years, concentraing his research over the past 15 years in Bermuda.

Ellen Kraft: Executive director and chief executive officer of the USS Constitution Museum in Boston, Massachusetts, for the past three years. Former cultural centres coordinator for the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and former news production assistant for WPVI-TV in Philadelphia.

Audrey No l Hume: Retired archaeological research associate for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in Williamsburg, Virginia. She began working for the Foundation in 1956, after moving to the US from London, where she spent five years as an archaeological assistant at the Guildhall Museum and two years writing historical, archaeological and zoological articles for publications.

She co-authored A Handbook on Tortoises, Terrapins and Turtles with her husband Ivor No l Hume.

Ivor No l Hume OBE, FSA: Retired from the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, where he served as resident archaeologist since 1973. He also served as the director of the Foundation's Office of Archaeological Interpretation, and was the Foundation's chief archaeologist from 1957 to 1964, and its director of archaeology from 1964 to 1973. He spent eight years, from 1949 to 1957, working as Guildhall Museum's archaeologist responsible for the recovery of antiquities in post-war London. He has pubolished books on archaeology, history, antiques and natural history.

Gregory S. Stone: Former programme scientist with the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, in Rockville, Maryland, on detail in Japan where he conducted research on the deep sea, in particular whales. Is currently an associate director for the New England Aquarium in Boston, Massachusetts.

Clyde F.E. Roper, Ph.D.: Curator of the department of invertebrate zoology at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, in Washington, DC. He has done extensive research on cephalopods (squids, octopuses, and cuttlefishes) off the coast of Hawaii, Australia, Antarctica, Western Africa, Japan, and throughout the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

Dr. Anatoly Sagalevitch: Works at the P.P. SHIRSHOV Institute of Oceanology in Moscow, Russia. He is captain of the Russian research ship Keldysh, which has been involved in the filming of the Titanic in 1991, the Beebe Project off Bermuda, among many other projects. He is an expert is submersible technology.

He developed the technology to build the two 17-ton Russian submersibles Mir 1 and Mir 2.

Richard Ormond, FSA: Director of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London, since 1986. He is responsible for the Museum's executive management, financial performance, and implementation of its corporate strategy. For three years prior to becoming the director, he was head of pictures for the Musuem, and before that was deputy director of London's National Portrait Gallery where he had special responsibilities for 19th Century galleries and acquisistions, publications, and education. He has published several books and lectured extensively on 19th Century British art and portraiture.

SEPTEMBER 1993 RG MAGAZINE