Marty Snyderman – award-winning photographer, cinematographer, author and marine environment advocate
Today’s guest is one of the top award winning underwater photographers in the diving industry. Marty Snyderman is a legendary photographer, author, instructor, and speaker specializing in the underwater world. Marty’s still photography has been used for decades by the National Geographic Society, Nature Conservancy, National Wildlife Federation, Oceana, Shark Research Institute, museums and aquaria, and many major publications.
For twenty years he worked as a cameraman and film producer, and he has even been awarded an EMMY for his underwater cinematography. Marty’s cinematography has been seen on numerous National Geographic productions, the PBS series Nature, the Discovery Channel, the BBC, and many other networks around the world. He also filmed the underwater segments in the Warner Brother’s film Free Willy.
Marty is an inductee to DEMA’s SCUBA diving Hall of Fame, and in 2008 he won the prestigious DEMA Reaching Out Award.
Marty currently serves as the Marine Life Editor of Dive Training Magazine and every month he produces at least three columns for the magazine; (1) the underwater photography column entitled Behind The Lens, (2) a natural history piece entitled What’s That, and (3) a column about his life entitled Always Learning. Marty teaches underwater photography seminars in dive centers in North America and at destinations around the globe. He is the Senior Editor and a columnist for California Diving News, and the co-author of a series of apps on underwater photography. Marty serves on the Board of Trustees of the Reef Environmental Education Foundation (REEF at reef.org), and he also serves as an advisor to the Shark Research Institute (SRI at sharks.org) and the Center for Oceanic Awareness, Research & Education (COARE at coare.org).
Items In This Podcast
- Childhood homework included Jacques Cousteau
- Sea Hunt
- Semi-pro baseball player
- Worked dive boats in Caribbean
- Thrown in jail during his scuba instructor course
- Howard Hall assigned as his mentor
- Crashes a dinner with Stan Waterman
- Squid dives at night with Blue Sharks
- Right Whale diving
- Amazing dive locations
- Tips for divers
- Encounter with a witch doctor
- martysnyderman.com
- Marty’s Dive Training Magazine Articles
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