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Expedition Members

Prof. Anatoly Sagalevitch
Dr Anatoly Sagalevitch played a major role in the MIR submersibles' design and implementation and has been the Chief scientist and expedition leader on all expedition dive projects since the submersibles were built in 1987.

He has been expedition leader for all MIR dives for both the IMAX Titanica and James Cameron's Hollywood epic. He has piloted the MIR on numerous dives to the Titanic, to the Russian submarine Komsomolets, the Japanese I-52, the German battleship Bismarck and many other deep dive expeditions.

Anatoly is a world-renowned scientist and has published a number of scientific papers. He is also an award-winning member of the Explorers Club. Dr Sagalevitch is assisted by two highly experienced submersible pilots, Yvgeniy Cherniaev and Victor Nischeta and by the highly skilled MIR support team.

Dr. Holger H. Herwig
Dr Herwig received his PhD from the State University of New York in 1971 and has held positions at Vanderbilt University, the Naval War College, and the College of William & Mary.

He is Director of Research and a Canada Research Chair at the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies at the University of Calgary and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

He has co-produced five Television projects and has published 16 books, some of which have been translated into Chinese, Czech, German, Polish, Serbo-Croatian, and Spanish.

He recently co-authored The Destruction of the Bismarck and was a key historian in a recent James Cameron/Discovery Channel Bismarck documentary.

Dr Herwig made a dive to the Bismarck wreck in 2002.

Mike McDowell
Deep Ocean Expeditions (DOE) was founded in 1998 by Australian diver, climber and adventurer Mike McDowell.

Mike is a leading innovator in expedition cruising and eco-tourism ventures and was the founder of Quark Expeditions that pioneered the use of icebreakers to take expeditioners into the frozen reaches of the Arctic, Antarctic and North Pole.

In addition to these expeditions far ends of the earth Mike has for many years organized significant natural history and scuba diving expeditions in remote regions of Papua New Guinea, Micronesia and Indonesia.

Mike was also for many years a director and major shreholder in Adventure Network International that continues to be the primary private aviation logistic support company and tour operator in the interior Antarctic continent. Mike was also one of the founders of Space Adventures, a company successfully offering space travel to the general public.

In the late 1990's he along with several close colleagues, developed a new concept for expedition cruising: to use deep diving submersibles to take people exploring the oceans' depths. Deep Ocean Expeditions was born.

McDowell has been organizing remote location expeditions for 26 years and these have included ocean going, land and aircraft supported expeditions. In addition to producing great concepts for expedition travel McDowell has a successful record of being able to carry these visions and 'off the wall' concepts from the concept stage through to fruition in the form of exciting expeditions and adventures.

Contact: mike@deepoceanexpeditions.com

Belinda Sawyer
New Zealander Belinda Sawyer is Operations Manager of Deep Ocean Expeditions overseeing all the logistics involved with putting together remote expeditions.

Belinda is also an expedition leader, qualified ships master/engineer and dive master.

Belinda has worked in expedition teams in many parts of the world. Since 1999 she has worked for Deep Ocean Expeditions on the deep diving MIR submersible programme. Her other work has varied from leading remote location support teams to commanding vessels and implementing inshore fisheries management programmes.

She also spends considerable time beneath the ocean participating in both recreational and scientific research scuba diving.

Continuing with Deep Ocean Expeditions primary goals of adventure, education and science, Belinda also promotes exploration and sustainable management of the world oceans through the DOE website and various education institutes..

Please note
The staff members listed above may or may not be participating in this expedition. This is a guide only. Also note additional expert Deep Ocean Expedition staff not listed here will also be participants on this expedition.

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