David Doubilet - Academy of Achievement

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col-md-8 col-md-offset-2 text-xs-center"> <i class="icon-icon_bio text-brand-primary"></i> <h3 class="serif-3 quote-marks">Light is everything in the ocean. If you take down a strobe, you uncork that bottle of sunlight, push the trigger of the camera, the reef explodes with light. You see colors that have never really been seen before. They have an extraordinary palette, colors you can’t even imagine.</h3> </header> </div> <div class="row"> <aside class="col-md-4 sidebar clearfix"> <h2 class="serif-3 p-b-1">Capturing the Action, Drama and Poetry of our Oceans</h2> <div class="col-xs-12 sidebar--chunk p-b-2"> <dt class="serif-7">Date of Birth</dt> <dd class="sans-2"> November 28, 1946 </dd> </div> </aside> <article class="editorial-article col-md-8"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><body><p>David Doubilet was born and raised in New York City.  His father was a physician who became a professor of surgery at New York University. At age eight, David, an asthmatic child who at first had little interest in the outdoors, discovered the joy of underwater exploration while attending summer camp on a freshwater lake in the Adirondack Mountains.</p> <figure id="attachment_52684" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-52684 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190130044624im_/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-1978-2280-GettyImages-80895037.jpg"></noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-52684 lazyload" alt="" width="2280" height="1522" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20190130044624im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-1978-2280-GettyImages-80895037.jpg 2280w, /web/20190130044624im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-1978-2280-GettyImages-80895037-380x254.jpg 380w, /web/20190130044624im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-1978-2280-GettyImages-80895037-760x507.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190130044624/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-1978-2280-GettyImages-80895037.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">November 1978: David Doubilet photographs Eugenie Clark, “The Shark Lady,” as she dives the depths of the Red Sea. Clark is known for both her research on shark behavior and her study of fish and was a pioneer in the field of scuba diving for research purposes. David Doubilet graduated from Boston University in 1970. The following year, he shot his first story — on the garden eels of the Red Sea — for <em>National Geographic</em>. David Doubilet has been a contract photographer for the magazine since 1976. (Photo by David Doubilet/National Geographic/Getty Images)</figcaption></figure> <p>Growing up in New York City, he had fewer opportunities to explore his passion during the year, but his family spent summers at their seaside home in Elberon, New Jersey, where he took up snorkeling.  At age 12, he began taking pictures above and below the water, wrapping his camera in a plastic anesthesiologist’s bag given him by his physician father.</p> <figure id="attachment_52660" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-52660 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190130044624im_/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-1992-2280-BOOK-PACIFIC-COVER-Doubliet2.jpg"></noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-52660 lazyload" alt="" width="2280" height="2280" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20190130044624im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-1992-2280-BOOK-PACIFIC-COVER-Doubliet2.jpg 2280w, /web/20190130044624im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-1992-2280-BOOK-PACIFIC-COVER-Doubliet2-190x190.jpg 190w, /web/20190130044624im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-1992-2280-BOOK-PACIFIC-COVER-Doubliet2-380x380.jpg 380w, /web/20190130044624im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-1992-2280-BOOK-PACIFIC-COVER-Doubliet2-760x760.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190130044624/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-1992-2280-BOOK-PACIFIC-COVER-Doubliet2.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">1992: <em>Pacific: An Undersea Journey by </em>David Doubilet. Doubilet takes us on an expedition off the coasts of California and British Columbia before turning outward to the Hawaiian Islands and the Galapagos. He continues westward across the Pacific, passing by the tiny island groups of Palau and Kerema to Japan, where he explores the sheer submarine cliffs of Suruga Bay at Izu Peninsula. In Papua New Guinea and the waters of the Southwest Pacific — the most diverse coral paradise in the world — Doubilet captures the remnants of World War II battles, underwater wrecks now softened by coral growth and inhabited by schools of glassy sweepers. Moving southward, he touches on the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Australia and lonely Lord Howe Island in the Tasman Sea. The journey ends in the rich temperate waters of New Zealand. Doubilet’s mastery of the art of underwater photography is evident in his stunning color images of the world beneath the sea. In anecdotal essays about each region, Doubilet describes his adventures while diving, giving voice to the otherworldly beauty of his imagery. (© David Doubilet)</figcaption></figure> <p>His father encouraged him in other ways, taking him along on a fishing trip to Andros Island in the Bahamas, where David learned to dive with scuba gear.  In his teens, David began working at the island’s Small Hope Lodge and would return every summer through his college years as a diving instructor, taking undersea pictures in his spare time.  Back on the mainland, he worked part-time as a diver and photographer for the Sandy Hook Marine Laboratory.</p> <figure id="attachment_52662" style="width: 1600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-52662 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190130044624im_/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-fishermen-Papua-New-Guinea.jpg"></noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-52662 lazyload" alt="" width="1600" height="1065" data-sizes="(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px" data-srcset="/web/20190130044624im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-fishermen-Papua-New-Guinea.jpg 1600w, /web/20190130044624im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-fishermen-Papua-New-Guinea-380x253.jpg 380w, /web/20190130044624im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-fishermen-Papua-New-Guinea-760x506.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190130044624/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-fishermen-Papua-New-Guinea.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">A half-and-half image of a native fisherman with his young son in an outrigger from a village on the Willaumez Peninsula on the coast of New Britain, Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea. Kimbe Bay, shaped like the cup of a chalice, “is a world,” says photographer David Doubilet, “more alien than the edges of space.” (Photo by David Doubilet)</figcaption></figure> <p>He entertained thoughts of becoming a marine biologist, but when he entered Boston University, in Autumn 1965, he soon gravitated toward film and broadcasting studies.  Over the summer following freshman year, he attended a pilot course in underwater photography at the Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, California.  Bored with his first efforts at motion photography, by the time he graduated in 1970, David Doubilet was firmly set on a career as a still photographer.</p> <figure id="attachment_52661" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-52661 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190130044624im_/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-1994-2280-The-Red-Sea.jpg"></noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-52661 lazyload" alt="" width="2280" height="2969" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20190130044624im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-1994-2280-The-Red-Sea.jpg 2280w, /web/20190130044624im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-1994-2280-The-Red-Sea-292x380.jpg 292w, /web/20190130044624im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-1994-2280-The-Red-Sea-584x760.jpg 584w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190130044624/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-1994-2280-The-Red-Sea.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">1994: <em>The Red Sea</em> by David Doubilet and Andrea Ghisotti. This volume is an invitation to follow famous underwater photographers along spectacular routes over the floor of the Red Sea, a veiled world in the limpid depths, among boundless submerged gardens, fantastically shaped fish, and plants in magnificent colors, which are often the background to the enchanting presence of well-preserved wrecks that the sea has transformed into additional microcosms teeming with life. David Doubilet began his career in the Red Sea when he got what he calls his “big break” and shot his first project for <em>National Geographic</em> on garden eels in the Red Sea in Israel. (© David Doubilet)</figcaption></figure> <p>The following year, Doubilet traveled to Israel, where he photographed the garden eels of the Red Sea.  The resulting photographs were published in <em>National Geographic</em> in 1972.  It was the beginning of a relationship that has lasted over 40 years.  In 1976, he became a contract photographer for the magazine.  His work appears in its pages multiple times each year, carrying his byline as photographer, and in recent years, as the author of articles.  He has returned many times to the Red Sea, a location he calls his “favorite underwater studio,” producing nearly a dozen stories.</p> <figure id="attachment_52663" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-52663 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190130044624im_/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-1998-2280-GettyImages-176966933.jpg"></noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-52663 lazyload" alt="" width="2280" height="3371" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20190130044624im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-1998-2280-GettyImages-176966933.jpg 2280w, /web/20190130044624im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-1998-2280-GettyImages-176966933-257x380.jpg 257w, /web/20190130044624im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-1998-2280-GettyImages-176966933-514x760.jpg 514w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190130044624/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-1998-2280-GettyImages-176966933.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">1998: A portrait of <em>National Geographic</em> photographer David Doubilet in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. Doubilet began snorkeling at the age of eight in the seas off the northern New Jersey coast. By the age of 13, he was taking black and white pictures above and below the sea with his first camera, a pre-war Leica. At 17, Doubilet was the laboratory photographer at the Sandy Hook Marine Sciences Laboratory in New Jersey. In 2002, he was inducted into the International Scuba Diving Hall of Fame. (Photo by Mauricio Handler/National Geographic/Getty Images)</figcaption></figure> <p>While shooting well over 70 stories for <em>National Geographic</em>, he has explored the world’s waters — east, west, north, and south. He has investigated the entire eastern coast of the United States, from the rocky coast of Maine to the islands of the Florida Keys; and the western coast, from California to deep in Canada’s Northwest Pacific.  From his early adventures in the Bahamas, he has traveled the length and breadth of the Caribbean and chronicled the breathtaking biodiversity of the Galápagos Islands in the equatorial Pacific.</p> <figure id="attachment_52673" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-52673 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190130044624im_/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-harp-seal-pup-Gulf-of-St.-Lawrence.jpg"></noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-52673 lazyload" alt="" width="2280" height="1517" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20190130044624im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-harp-seal-pup-Gulf-of-St.-Lawrence.jpg 2280w, /web/20190130044624im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-harp-seal-pup-Gulf-of-St.-Lawrence-380x253.jpg 380w, /web/20190130044624im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-harp-seal-pup-Gulf-of-St.-Lawrence-760x506.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190130044624/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-harp-seal-pup-Gulf-of-St.-Lawrence.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">A harp seal pup (<em>Pagophilus groenlandicus</em>) waits for its mother to return to nurse. Harp seals are born on the Gulf of St. Lawrence sea ice in late February and nursed for 12 to 15 days before their mother abandons them to learn how to be harp seals. David Doubilet and Jennifer Hayes met diver Mario Cyr in Îles-de-la-Madeleine. They took a fishing boat and pushed into the thinning sea ice, which supported 10,000 harp seals. (Photo by David Doubilet)</figcaption></figure> <p>His adventures in the warm water zones have taken him to Indonesia, Micronesia, Australia, and New Guinea in the Pacific, as well as to Sri Lanka and the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean. He has also braved the cold waters of New Zealand, Tasmania, Japan, and Scotland — where he plumbed the depths of Loch Ness — and Antarctica, where he has recorded priceless images of penguins at play among the icebergs.</p> <figure id="attachment_52680" style="width: 1900px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-52680 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190130044624im_/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-david-doubilet-and-jen-hayes.jpg"></noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-52680 lazyload" alt="" width="1900" height="2281" data-sizes="(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px" data-srcset="/web/20190130044624im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-david-doubilet-and-jen-hayes.jpg 1900w, /web/20190130044624im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-david-doubilet-and-jen-hayes-317x380.jpg 317w, /web/20190130044624im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-david-doubilet-and-jen-hayes-633x760.jpg 633w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190130044624/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-david-doubilet-and-jen-hayes.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Underwater photographers David Doubilet and Jennifer Hayes are married partners who work together as a team to produce <em>National Geographic</em> stories from equatorial coral reefs to beneath the polar ice. Doubilet estimates he has spent nearly half his life in the sea since taking his first underwater photograph at the age of 12 with a Brownie Hawkeye camera sealed in a bag. Between them, Hayes and Doubilet have photographed and explored the ocean depths in such places as New Zealand, Canada, Japan, Tasmania, Scotland, and Antarctica. (National Geographic)</figcaption></figure> <p>Besides photographing the living creatures of the world’s waters — crocodiles, alligators, stingrays, sharks, and barracuda — he has pursued his love of history, uncovering the wrecks of ships and planes at the ocean’s bottom, including the USS Arizona, in its resting place at the bottom of Pearl Harbor. <em> </em>Apart from his magazine work, he has shot advertising campaigns for Kodak, Seagrams, Microsoft, and Rolex, and served as the still photographer for the feature films <em>The Deep</em> and <em>Splash</em>.</p> <figure id="attachment_52682" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-52682 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190130044624im_/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-2280-sidebyside-symposium-and-awards-presentation-2008konasummit1357.jpg"></noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-52682 lazyload" alt="" width="2280" height="899" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20190130044624im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-2280-sidebyside-symposium-and-awards-presentation-2008konasummit1357.jpg 2280w, /web/20190130044624im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-2280-sidebyside-symposium-and-awards-presentation-2008konasummit1357-380x150.jpg 380w, /web/20190130044624im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-2280-sidebyside-symposium-and-awards-presentation-2008konasummit1357-760x300.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190130044624/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-2280-sidebyside-symposium-and-awards-presentation-2008konasummit1357.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">2008: Academy guest of honor David Doubilet shares his underwater photographs with delegates and members at a symposium during the 47th annual International Achievement Summit in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii; Awards Council member Dr. Steven Rosenberg, Chief of Surgery at the National Cancer Institute, presents the Golden Plate Award to David Doubilet during the 2008 Banquet of the Golden Plate ceremonies at the Four Seasons Hualalai, Hawaii.</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1989, Doubilet published his first book, <em>Light in the Sea</em>. A children’s book, <em>Under the Sea from A to Z</em>, with photographs by Doubilet, appeared in 1991.  His book <em>Pacific: An Undersea Journey</em> was published in 1992.  His subsequent books include <em>Water Light Time; Great Barrier Reef; </em><em>Fish Face; </em>and <em>Face to Face with Sharks.</em></p> <figure id="attachment_52675" style="width: 1623px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-52675 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190130044624im_/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-silky-sharks-CUBA.jpg"></noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-52675 lazyload" alt="" width="1623" height="1080" data-sizes="(max-width: 1623px) 100vw, 1623px" data-srcset="/web/20190130044624im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-silky-sharks-CUBA.jpg 1623w, /web/20190130044624im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-silky-sharks-CUBA-380x253.jpg 380w, /web/20190130044624im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-silky-sharks-CUBA-760x506.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190130044624/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-silky-sharks-CUBA.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Stable populations of silky sharks patrol the rich coral reefs of Gardens of the Queen National Marine Park, Cuba. The Gardens of the Queen National Marine Park, a place that resembles the untouched Caribbean of Doubilet’s youth, has stable populations of sharks. “We ventured out to open water to dive with dozens of sleek silky sharks, which formed a perfect carousel around us,” wrote Doubilet and Hayes in <em>National Geographic</em>. (© David Doubilet)</figcaption></figure> <p>On all his travels, he is accompanied by his diving partner and fellow photographer, his wife, Jennifer Hayes.  In addition to their saltwater adventures, their explorations of freshwater ecosystems have included studies of the Saint Lawrence River and Botswana’s Okavango Delta.</p> <figure id="attachment_52666" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-52666 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190130044624im_/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/WP-2013-2280-GettyImages-185333915.jpg"></noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-52666 lazyload" alt="" width="2280" height="1517" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20190130044624im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/WP-2013-2280-GettyImages-185333915.jpg 2280w, /web/20190130044624im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/WP-2013-2280-GettyImages-185333915-380x253.jpg 380w, /web/20190130044624im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/WP-2013-2280-GettyImages-185333915-760x506.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190130044624/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/WP-2013-2280-GettyImages-185333915.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">2013: David Doubilet is interviewed at National Geographic offices in Washington, D.C. Doubilet is the recipient of many prestigious awards, including the Sara Prize, the Lowell Thomas Award, and the Lennart Nilsson Award in Photography, and a member of the Royal Photographic Society. (Larry French/Getty Images for TASCHEN America)</figcaption></figure> <p>Jennifer Hayes grew up near the Saint Lawrence, which flows from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic, running between the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario on its north bank and the State of New York on its south bank.  The Saint Lawrence area has now become home for both of them.  They keep one home in Clayton, New York, and another in De Kelders, South Africa, a coastal community east of Cape Town, where the Atlantic meets the Indian Ocean.</p> </body></html> <div class="clearfix"> </div> </article> </div> </section> </div> <div class="tab-pane fade" id="profile" role="tabpanel"> <section class="clearfix"> <header class="editorial-article__header"> <figure class="text-xs-center"> <img class="inductee-badge" src="/web/20190130044624im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/themes/aoa/assets/images/inducted-badge@2x.png" alt="Inducted Badge" width="120" height="120"/> <figcaption class="serif-3 text-brand-primary"> Inducted in 2008 </figcaption> </figure> </header> <div class="row"> <aside class="col-md-4 sidebar"> <dl class="clearfix m-b-0"> <div class="col-xs-12 sidebar--chunk p-b-2"> <dt class="serif-7">Career</dt> <dd class="sans-2"> <div><a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/#filter=.photographer">Photographer</a></div> <div><a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/#filter=.undersea-explorer">Undersea Explorer</a></div> </dd> </div> <div class="col-xs-12 sidebar--chunk p-b-2"> <dt class="serif-7">Date of Birth</dt> <dd class="sans-2"> November 28, 1946 </dd> </div> </dl> </aside> <article class="col-md-8 editorial-article clearfix"> <p>David Doubilet fell in love with the undersea world as a child. At age 12, he wrapped a Brownie camera in a plastic bag to take his first underwater pictures. In addition to contributing photographs and columns to a host of travel, nature, and diving magazines — including over 70 stories in <em>National Geographic</em> — he has published half a dozen books of his astonishing images.</p> <p>Both inspired artist and fearless explorer, his expeditions have taken him around the world, capturing the amazing creatures, brilliant scenery and otherworldly light of the ocean’s depths. In reefs and caverns of fluorescent coral, he has recorded the most intense colors on the planet, as seen in his books, <em>Water Light Time</em> and <em>The Kingdom of Coral: Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. </em></p> <p>He has plumbed the mysterious depths of Loch Ness, Scotland and inspected the submerged remains of the <em>USS Arizona</em> at the bottom of Pearl Harbor. He has pioneered the use of the split-lens camera to take pictures at the waterline, keeping objects above and below the waves in focus simultaneously. When he is not on location, David Doubilet is a popular spokesman for the National Geographic Society, sharing his brilliant images to advocate for the conservation of what he has called “the most beautiful, most mysterious part of our planet.”</p> </article> </div> </section> </div> <div class="tab-pane fade" id="interview" role="tabpanel"> <section class="clearfix"> <div class="col-md-12 interview-feature-video"> <figure> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190130044624if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/3ylAElq2KOU?feature=oembed&autohide=1&hd=1&color=white&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&theme=light" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MasterEdit.00_53_22_02.Still012-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MasterEdit.00_53_22_02.Still012-760x428.jpg"></div> <div class="video-tag sans-4"> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> <div class="video-tag__text">Watch full interview</div> </div> </div> </figure> </div> <header class="col-md-12 text-xs-center m-b-2"> <i class="icon-icon_bio text-brand-primary"></i> </header> <aside class="col-md-4 sidebar"> <h2 class="serif-3 achiever--biography-subtitle">Capturing the Action, Drama and Poetry of our Oceans</h2> <div class="sans-2">Washington, D.C.</div> <div class="sans-2">June 18, 2018</div> </aside> <article class="editorial-article col-md-8">   <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <p><strong>What is it like when you dive into the ocean and see some of the beautiful things you take pictures of?</strong></p> </div>     <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190130044624if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/Gk_yz51lJJ0?feature=oembed&autohide=1&hd=1&color=white&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&theme=light" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MasterEdit.00_54_10_06.Still013-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MasterEdit.00_54_10_06.Still013-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p>David Doubilet: Well, you fall off the boat backwards. My partner — my wife, Jennifer Hayes — and I hold our masks, we roll backwards, and this is the way you get in the water. And when the bubbles clear and you see a shaft of light, and you can see reflections on the surface in clear water, you roll on your stomach. Even in cold water, you do the same thing in a dry suit. And you head down into the darker and more mystical part of the dive, into the rest of the dive, and you’ll see everything from large marine creatures — which they like to call megafauna; I don’t like that word — but it’s again, sharks or dolphins or even whales, manta rays, you may see those. Depending on where you dive, you might see the top of a reef, you might see a great school of fish. And in the last 20 years for us, and earlier for me — 49 years I’ve been working for <em>National Geographic</em> — you see this absolute parade of life. And it never, ever ceases to amaze us.</p> </div> </div>      <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><body><figure id="attachment_52670" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-52670 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190130044624im_/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-fisherman-Okavango-Delta-Botswana.jpg"></noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-52670 lazyload" alt="" width="2280" height="1514" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20190130044624im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-fisherman-Okavango-Delta-Botswana.jpg 2280w, /web/20190130044624im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-fisherman-Okavango-Delta-Botswana-380x252.jpg 380w, /web/20190130044624im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-fisherman-Okavango-Delta-Botswana-760x505.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190130044624/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-fisherman-Okavango-Delta-Botswana.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">A fisherman creates a silhouette in his wooden <em>mokoro,</em> over a vast lily forest in the Ncamasere Channel, in the Panhandle region of the Okavango Delta. Doubilet swam among crocodiles in Botswana’s Okavango Delta, night-diving in crocodile caves with guides carrying AK-47s, and yielding images of “unbelievably beautiful” forests of water lilies, their inhabitants, and banks of golden papyrus lining the Ncamasere Channel. (© David Doubilet)</figcaption></figure> </body></html> </div>     <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <p><strong>What are some of the discoveries you’ve made with your camera underwater? </strong></p> </div>     <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190130044624if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/-p7tjZEeqeg?feature=oembed&autohide=1&hd=1&color=white&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&theme=light" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MasterEdit.00_31_56_05.Still005-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MasterEdit.00_31_56_05.Still005-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p>David Doubilet: We’ve looked in a lot of different places underwater in this voyage of discovery. And remember, every time you fall backwards off the boat, it is a voyage of discovery. What we’ve seen are some incredible things. For instance, we went underwater, not in the ocean but in the Okavango Delta, one of the more incredible assignments we’ve ever had, because we were dealing with a rather large multicellular animal called a Nile crocodile, very large, and hippopotamus, and a host of other things in a world that was ultimately very strange.</p> <p>We went under the mats of papyrus, which line their river bank in the upper reaches of the Okavango Delta. We dove in lily forests of pink and green and clouds of mosquito fish. We swam through tigerfish. We looked at diving spiders. We went at night to find something called a Zambezi squeaker, a very, very beautiful catfish. We looked at a system that fed all of the river. And they have a saying there that “the Okavango River is life, but beneath it is death.” And very few people have ever gone underneath there.</p> <p>For a moment, as the floods come, it becomes very clear water. You just have a month in the northern part, and then you follow the clear water down to the ultimate end in the delta. Here is a river system that flows from Angola and then through Namibia, northern Namibia, and into Botswana, and spends itself in the sands of the Kalahari, producing this enormous delta, which in essence is the world’s largest oasis. It concentrates life, everything from these Zambezi squeaker catfish to hippopotamus to crocodiles to elephants to giraffes to lions to everything that lives in this world.</p> </div> </div>      <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <p><strong>You must have had a lot of dangerous moments down there. Can you tell us about that?</strong></p> </div>     <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190130044624if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/jscg22oVPw8?feature=oembed&autohide=1&hd=1&color=white&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&theme=light" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MasterEdit.00_41_37_22.Still006-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MasterEdit.00_41_37_22.Still006-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> <figcaption class="achiever__interview-video-terms"> <span>Keys to success —</span> <a class="comma-item" href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/keys-to-success/courage/">Courage</a> </figcaption> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p>David Doubilet: We dove at night. We would anchor over a lily forest and light up the lily forest with their big HMI movie lights. And it became something otherworldly. It became an exercise in a living Art Deco — or actually, living Art Nouveau — it was unbelievably beautiful. But at the end of the edge of the pool of light, you could see two eyes. The glowing — they glow like coals. Those are the eyes of the crocodiles. And if they’re this far apart, they’re small, but if they’re this far apart, they’re very large. This far apart is almost a foot wide. And as these eyes got closer and closer and closer, our guides, Andy and Brad Bestelink, would say, “David! Jennifer! Get out of the water! Get out now!” And I would say, “One more picture,” because I’d be looking around mesmerized.</p> </div> </div>      <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><body><figure id="attachment_52667" style="width: 1623px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-52667 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190130044624im_/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/WP-American-crocodile.jpg"></noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-52667 lazyload" alt="" width="1623" height="1080" data-sizes="(max-width: 1623px) 100vw, 1623px" data-srcset="/web/20190130044624im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/WP-American-crocodile.jpg 1623w, /web/20190130044624im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/WP-American-crocodile-380x253.jpg 380w, /web/20190130044624im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/WP-American-crocodile-760x506.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190130044624/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/WP-American-crocodile.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">American crocodile (<em>Crocodylus acutus),</em> an apex predator that lives in the dense mangroves within the Gardens of the Queen National Marine Park. The crocodiles navigate the mangroves, keeping the water channels open and making new ones, helping to sustain water flow through critical habitats. Scientists refer to the crocodiles as the engineers of the mangrove. David Doubilet’s determination to push technical boundaries in his work resulted in the invention of the first “split-level” camera, which has different focus points for the top and bottom halves of the lens. It allows the photographer to shoot what’s over and under the water surface simultaneously. (David Doubilet)</figcaption></figure> </body></html> </div>     <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <p><strong>How do you communicate with the guides when you’re underwater? </strong></p> <p>David Doubilet: We were in very shallow water there. We were just snorkeling. So you can hear people for the most part. You can communicate and bang on the boat if something’s important, and you put your head up. The Okavango Delta is not deep. The deepest we dove in the month and two months and three months working there was 17 feet, but that was rare.</p> <p><strong>You’ve spent a lot of time with crocodiles and sharks. Have you ever been bitten?</strong></p> </div>     <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190130044624if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/XOfZKHGscqQ?feature=oembed&autohide=1&hd=1&color=white&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&theme=light" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MasterEdit.00_51_21_06.Still011-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MasterEdit.00_51_21_06.Still011-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p>David Doubilet: We’ve been very lucky. Never been bitten by a shark or never been bitten by a crocodile. What’s very funny is we spend a lot of time with sharks, everything from great white sharks to just recently, reef blacktips and great reef sharks and fakarava in an atoll in French Polynesia — one of the most astounding places we’ve been — in Cuba, in Australia. But crocodiles — crocodiles are really quite frightening because I think we’re used to being with an animal that’s in the water, but a crocodile is a dinosaur, unpredictable and extremely fast when it has to be, and yet has this idea of you’re swimming with dinosaurs.</p> </div> </div>      <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><body><figure id="attachment_52665" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-52665 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190130044624im_/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-2009-01713-David-Doubilet-selfie.jpg"></noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-52665 lazyload" alt="" width="2280" height="1525" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20190130044624im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-2009-01713-David-Doubilet-selfie.jpg 2280w, /web/20190130044624im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-2009-01713-David-Doubilet-selfie-380x254.jpg 380w, /web/20190130044624im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-2009-01713-David-Doubilet-selfie-760x508.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190130044624/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-2009-01713-David-Doubilet-selfie.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">David Doubilet taking a selfie in a shark cage in the waters off of South Australia in the 1970s. “We shoot [selfies] all the time because there is nothing else to do when you are decompressing after a deep dive,” he says. Selfies have built-in advantages. “You don’t have to credit anyone else and there is always the delete button.” (David Doubilet)</figcaption></figure> </body></html> </div>     <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <p><strong>Light is so important to a photographer, but it’s so dark once you get deep underwater. How do you light up the ocean? </strong></p> </div>     <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190130044624if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ei3ACI26NMs?feature=oembed&autohide=1&hd=1&color=white&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&theme=light" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MasterEdit.00_54_13_19.Still014-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MasterEdit.00_54_13_19.Still014-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p>David Doubilet: Light is everything in the ocean. You’re right. And the first few feet of water, the color red disappears, and bit by bit, most of that end of the spectrum goes. So that by the time you’re at 60 feet, red is black. The color red is black. And strangely enough, if you cut yourself, you’d bleed green. Now if you take down a strobe, an electronic flash, that the inventor of the electronic flash, Dr. Harold Edgerton — who’s a teacher of mine when I was at university — said to me, “It’s like a bottle of sunlight.” And if you uncork that bottle of sunlight — in other words, push the trigger of the camera — the reef, or anywhere else underwater, explodes with light. And you see colors that have never really been seen before because they’re not colors of the surface. They’re colors beneath the sea, and they have an extraordinary palette: brilliant reds yellows, oranges. Colors you can’t even imagine.</p> </div> </div>      <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190130044624if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/mMYoxkLP1ME?feature=oembed&autohide=1&hd=1&color=white&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&theme=light" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MasterEdit.00_49_59_21.Still009-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MasterEdit.00_49_59_21.Still009-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p>David Doubilet: So every photographer has to supplement light. The light that falls down is the backdrop, dramatic shafts of light from the surface. And to that you add electronic flash, almost as if you’re swimming around with a studio. It takes that kind of approach. You are, in essence, trying to catch these creatures, and you have in your hand an underwater camera. We use these cameras called SEACAMs. They’re big underwater housings with large domes and two flashes that come out to here, sometimes three or four. You look a little bit like a spider crab, a giant spider crab, and you position these lights as you’re moving, as you’re swimming. So it’s basically being a studio photographer, running through someplace on land, running through a field and trying to catch that moment — that decisive moment.</p> </div> </div>      <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><body><figure id="attachment_52669" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-52669 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190130044624im_/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-Circle-of-Barracuda.jpg"></noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-52669 lazyload" alt="" width="2280" height="1522" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20190130044624im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-Circle-of-Barracuda.jpg 2280w, /web/20190130044624im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-Circle-of-Barracuda-380x254.jpg 380w, /web/20190130044624im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-Circle-of-Barracuda-760x507.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190130044624/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-Circle-of-Barracuda.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">A circle of barracuda surrounding diver Dinah Halstead in the clear waters of Papua New Guinea. David Doubilet was in Papua New Guinea when a group of chevron barracuda began circling him. He swam back to the boat and convinced a friend to dive with him. The barracuda obliged by circling her, and Doubilet got his shot. Barracuda form schools during the day as a defense against predation and then break up at dusk to hunt. (David Doubilet)</figcaption></figure> </body></html> </div>     <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <p><strong>There’s this amazing picture where you caught a diver in the middle of a perfect circle of barracuda. How did you get that?</strong></p> </div>     <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190130044624if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/7DoBkh514t0?feature=oembed&autohide=1&hd=1&color=white&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&theme=light" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Doubilet-David-2018-MasterEdit.00_06_22_11.Still015-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Doubilet-David-2018-MasterEdit.00_06_22_11.Still015-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p>David Doubilet: There was a long reef, kind of a peninsula of a reef that stuck out 50, 60 feet down, near New Ireland in Papua New Guinea — very clear water. I swam over it. I was alone, and I swam over it, and I was instantly surrounded by this enormous school of chevron barracuda. And what these barracudas do is they do this wonderful thing, which is a defensive mechanism. They make a perfect circle, absolutely geometric perfect circle.</p> <p>And geometry in the ocean is something that doesn’t exist in a weightless, cornerless world. There I was in the middle of this perfect circle, and I realized that I was in the middle of a picture that I wanted to take. It’s one of these things — it’s a terrible realization. So I swam back to the boat, and I talked to the captain. Her name was Dinah Halstead. I said, “Dinah, you got to come with me.” She and her husband, Bob, ran a boat called <em>Toledo</em>, and she jumped into the water in about two minutes, and we swam back to there. We swam side by side back to the barracudas, side by side. And as we got into this school — and they were still there, which is a wonderful thing — they began to circle again.</p> <p>I crossed my fingers. I dove to the bottom. At about 45 feet, I rolled on my back, and I looked up. And Dinah was in the middle of the circle, and the afternoon sun was glinting against the sides of the barracudas, like a perfect silver wall. And then she did something amazing. Instinctively, she held out her hand, like a ballet dancer, like a <em>pas de deux</em> — or one half of a <em>pas de deux</em> — and the barracudas circled. They went three times around her, and then they disappeared. They broke up. They went into a single line and they swam off — off the edge of this blue peninsula of coral.</p> </div> </div>      <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><body><figure id="attachment_52671" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-52671 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190130044624im_/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-gentoo-and-chinstrap-penguins-antarctica.jpg"></noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-52671 lazyload" alt="" width="2280" height="1517" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20190130044624im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-gentoo-and-chinstrap-penguins-antarctica.jpg 2280w, /web/20190130044624im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-gentoo-and-chinstrap-penguins-antarctica-380x253.jpg 380w, /web/20190130044624im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-gentoo-and-chinstrap-penguins-antarctica-760x506.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190130044624/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-gentoo-and-chinstrap-penguins-antarctica.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">2011: Chinstrap and gentoo penguins on a small ice floe off Danko Island, Antarctic Peninsula. ”I came late in life to the ice, but now ice is in my blood. I’ve been seduced by icebergs. Over the past few seasons, I’ve been working on them at every opportunity. I think of icebergs as a perfect metaphor for the sea — only a small percentage is visible to us. We were lucky to find this ‘bergy bit’ with a small group of chinstrap and gentoo penguins squabbling on top of it. I made a few frames of the idyllic scene before they began to push each other off and slide down one side, pop up on the other, and start over again. I was excited when two gentoo penguins circled the ice underwater, providing perspective. Look how much ice there is below water. One of the greatest joys of shooting half-and-half is that there’s always a surprise – especially the way the surface receives the light.” (Photo by David Doubilet)</figcaption></figure> </body></html> </div>     <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <p><strong>There’s another amazing image we want to talk to you about. In this one, penguins look like they’re on their own personal ice ship. </strong></p> <p>David Doubilet: We go down to Antarctica with <em>National Geographic</em> on the <em>National Geographic</em> <em>Explorer</em> as <em>National Geographic</em> photographers. One of the things we can do there is make pictures in the water, make pictures for ourselves, and also for all the guests — show them what this world looks like. We’ve been shooting these icebergs half-and-half — half-in, half-out images.</p> </div>     <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190130044624if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/Xhqb_ViTl7A?feature=oembed&autohide=1&hd=1&color=white&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&theme=light" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MasterEdit.00_50_07_07.Still010-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MasterEdit.00_50_07_07.Still010-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> <figcaption class="achiever__interview-video-terms"> <span>Keys to success —</span> <a class="comma-item" href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/keys-to-success/passion/">Passion</a> </figcaption> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p>In a place called Danko Island on the Antarctic Peninsula, we found this perfect iceberg. Actually, it wasn’t an iceberg; it was something called a “bergy bit,” a mini-iceberg. And on top of it was a group of gentoo and chinstrap penguins. Jennifer and I swam around it and swam around it. The penguins were playing this game, and the game was called “King of the Iceberg.” They’re flapping their flippers at each other as penguins do. The gentoos are pushing the chinstraps, and the chinstraps are pushing the gentoos in. And they would push each other over the side of the iceberg. The penguins would dive down and they’d fly underwater.</p> <p>That’s what they do — penguins <em>fly</em> underwater. They move really fast. How fast? Well, it’s like — if you’re at a party, and you blow up a balloon, and you release it, and it whips around the room, that is what a penguin is like underwater, leaving a stream of bubbles. Then they would pop up on the other side and the games begin again.</p> <p>We were in the water for about an hour-and-a-half, getting colder and colder. And remember, the water in Antarctica is minus two degrees Celsius, or just about 29 degrees Fahrenheit. It’s really cold. And scuba diving — we’d dive for about an hour. When we were snorkeling, because we’re moving around a little bit more, we can last a little bit longer. But your ideas and images last a lot longer than your body does. And when your fingers begin to be completely numb, that’s when you really have to get out. Core temperature begins to drop. We just didn’t want to get out. Gray skies, white, white, white icebergs. Flash would go off, illuminating the bottom part of the iceberg, and the penguins were flying and eating little bits of krill underwater and popping up. I can’t wait to — you know, it’s one of those magic moments.</p> </div> </div>      <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <p><strong>What’s the greatest underwater photo that you know about? </strong></p> </div>     <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190130044624if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/7LGmrPA0Iyw?feature=oembed&autohide=1&hd=1&color=white&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&theme=light" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MasterEdit.00_50_07_07.Still010-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MasterEdit.00_50_07_07.Still010-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> <figcaption class="achiever__interview-video-terms"> <span>Keys to success —</span> <a class="comma-item" href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/keys-to-success/vision/">Vision</a> </figcaption> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p>David Doubilet: The greatest underwater photo ever made is not an underwater photo. It was made by astronaut William Anders on Christmas Eve 1968 — one of the most terrible years in our history — but in one split second, one of the most momentous, important images ever made. He pointed his camera out of the little tiny window of Apollo 8 as it was coming around the dark side of the moon. And there in the foreground was the moon. Everybody’s seen this picture. And in the background is the earth rising, as it were, against the absolute black velvet of space. It’s not a blue marble, but it’s a sapphire. And this picture says one thing to all of us, every single human on the planet. It says, “That’s all there is.” But for me, and a few of my colleagues, like Dr. Sylvia Earle, it says, “This is a water planet.” She says. “This is not Planet Earth, this is Planet Ocean,” and it is 70 percent of its surface, and blue is the color of life found nowhere else in the universe.</p> </div> </div>      <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><body><figure id="attachment_52658" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-52658 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190130044624im_/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-water-light-time-book-1.jpg"></noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-52658 lazyload" alt="" width="2280" height="1601" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20190130044624im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-water-light-time-book-1.jpg 2280w, /web/20190130044624im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-water-light-time-book-1-380x267.jpg 380w, /web/20190130044624im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-water-light-time-book-1-760x534.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190130044624/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-water-light-time-book-1.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">2006: <em>Water Light Time</em> by David Doubilet. This fascinating and evocative volume looks at a world in which humans are neither the measure nor the master, but an encumbered intruder. From the waters of the Galapagos to the Red Sea, from the Pacific shores to the fresh waters of North America, <em>Water Light Time</em> includes over 25 years of Doubilet’s work and reveals the mesmerizing beauty of more than 30 bodies of water. (Photo by David Doubilet)</figcaption></figure> </body></html> </div>     <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><body><p><strong>You’ve spent half of your life in the water.  You travel from place to place carrying this heavy equipment. You get seasick in rough seas, to go swimming with sharks and crocodiles, or freeze in ice-cold water.  You’ve already made your reputation.  Why do you keep doing it?</strong></p> <p>David Doubilet: I want to see the rest of this world.  I’ve always thought that the second greatest of all human attributes is curiosity. That’s what my father taught me, curiosity.  I’m constantly curious about what is going on in this ocean.  But there’s another thing, too.</p> <figure id="attachment_52664" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-52664 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190130044624im_/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-2008konasummit0280.jpg"></noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-52664 lazyload" alt="" width="2280" height="1520" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20190130044624im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-2008konasummit0280.jpg 2280w, /web/20190130044624im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-2008konasummit0280-380x253.jpg 380w, /web/20190130044624im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-2008konasummit0280-760x507.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190130044624/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-2008konasummit0280.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">2008: Senator Edward J. Markey, a national leader on energy, the environment, and climate change, moderates a discussion on land and water conservation with legendary oceanographer and explorer Dr. Sylvia Earle, and David Doubilet, at the American Academy of Achievement’s International Achievement Summit in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii.</figcaption></figure> <p><strong>What’s the first greatest, by the way?  </strong></p> <p>David Doubilet: Kindness.  Kindness.  The other thing is what’s happening with our planet right now.</p> </body></html> </div>     <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190130044624if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/NrB7KttBxbQ?feature=oembed&autohide=1&hd=1&color=white&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&theme=light" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Doubilet-David-2018-MasterEdit.00_16_55_26.Still017-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Doubilet-David-2018-MasterEdit.00_16_55_26.Still017-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p>It gets back to that wonderful picture that William Anders took, “Earth Rise.” In that Christmas Eve of 1968, the population of the planet was about three-and-a-half million; now it’s almost seven-and-a-half million. Global climate change is a very, very real thing. We are working on a major project, part of a large grant from <em>National Geographic</em> to take a look at coral in peril — mission coral — throughout the world.</p> <p>Coral reefs are the thermometer of our planet, the barometer of our planet. And they face enormous changes. Bathed in hot water right now, they bleach. The algae within the tissues of the coral leaves, the coral turns white, and in some cases, bleaches white and then dies. And reefs change.</p> <p>Rising sea levels are affecting all of us throughout the world. They affect the coral reefs. Incredible storms are coming right now — bigger storms than have ever been recorded in living memory. And all this change is happening because global climate change is about water. It’s about rising temperatures and one more thing waiting in the wings — that’s ocean acidification. And ocean acidification is going to affect corals and a lot of other things within the ocean environment.</p> </div> </div>      <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><body><figure id="attachment_53003" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-53003 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190130044624im_/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-Douilet-Face-to-Face-with-Sharks-cover-1.jpg"></noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-53003 lazyload" alt="" width="2280" height="2264" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20190130044624im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-Douilet-Face-to-Face-with-Sharks-cover-1.jpg 2280w, /web/20190130044624im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-Douilet-Face-to-Face-with-Sharks-cover-1-190x190.jpg 190w, /web/20190130044624im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-Douilet-Face-to-Face-with-Sharks-cover-1-380x377.jpg 380w, /web/20190130044624im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-Douilet-Face-to-Face-with-Sharks-cover-1-760x755.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190130044624/https://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-Douilet-Face-to-Face-with-Sharks-cover-1.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">2009: <em>Face to Face with Sharks</em> by David Doubilet and Jennifer Hayes. It is man’s greatest fear — being eaten alive. And diving down here in the depths, the streamlined shark holds every advantage. How close do you want to get? Photographer David Doubilet takes you deep into their dangerous realm and points out it is we who are the killers!</figcaption></figure> </body></html> </div>     <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <p><strong>You see it all. How worried are you about the health of the oceans?</strong></p> </div>     <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190130044624if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/JUXxaRgmL00?feature=oembed&autohide=1&hd=1&color=white&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&theme=light" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Doubilet-David-2018-MasterEdit.00_39_35_13.Still019-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Doubilet-David-2018-MasterEdit.00_39_35_13.Still019-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> <figcaption class="achiever__interview-video-terms"> <span>Keys to success —</span> <a class="comma-item" href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/keys-to-success/vision/">Vision</a> </figcaption> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p>David Doubilet: Underwater, we are seeing the health of the ocean — the health of the planet — close up. We’ve been lucky enough, Jennifer and I, to see it from pole to coral reef. And we are seeing the changes right now. Coral reefs will change, not in the next century but in the next 20 or 30 years. They are the barometer of the planet. And this is what we are working on. We can only truly protect this planet — and this is what we’re learning right now — by reducing our carbon footprint. There is no doubt about it. These are the great sweeping changes that our planet is going through right now: overpopulation, rising temperatures, acidification. I would say this: you win a war by saying “second best today.” And if we can begin to cut down on our carbon footprint, which means that we switch more to solar, to wind, and for our automobiles, probably electricity, that’s going to change. If we have seven million people changing like that, we will reduce the carbon output. We will slow the change in our oceans.</p> </div> </div>     <aside class="collapse" id="full-interview">    <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <p><strong>How did you become interested in this work? You didn’t exactly grow up on the beach. </strong></p> <p>David Doubilet: I grew up in a real hotbed of underwater photography, which was New York City, New York, right in the heart of the city. And you know, when you’re an eight-year-old kid growing up in the city, in the summer a lot of us were sent to camp in the Adirondacks in the mountains. And I hated it. It was mountains, and I had asthma. I managed to wheeze my way up a few Adirondack peaks. I didn’t like the horse. I didn’t particularly like baseball. They sent me down to the waterfront, where two enormous 14-year-old counselors said, “Hey, kid, why don’t you go under the dock and clean out all the branches?” — and “Here’s a mask.” A blue French mask. I remember it absolutely distinctly, as an eight-year-old kid. I put the mask on my face, molded it to my face, I put my head under water, and my life changed. And that I knew — for some reason, I knew at that point, that is the direction I wanted to take.</p> <p><strong>Why? What did it feel like? </strong></p> <p>David Doubilet: I was weightless. I could breathe. Asthmatics, when they go in the water, just all of a sudden, all the weight of the world and all the weight on their lungs is lifted. A lot of asthmatic people are great swimmers. But I could breathe, and I could see, and there were shafts of light coming down and fish swimming through this blue-green simple lake in the Adirondacks. What they really wanted me to see was an enormous water spider. Actually, they’re called dock spiders. They’re the size of a butter plate. They live under the dock. And they wanted me to see that and get completely freaked out because that’s the joy of 14-year-old camp counselors. But it had the opposite effect. It was mesmerizing.</p> <p>We had a summer home in Jersey, a place called Elberon, New Jersey, on the North Jersey shore, where, if you were lucky, you could see your flippers. That’s how bad the visibility was on a good day. I had a pair of green flippers that looked like lily pads — they came from a company called Frankie the Frog Man. I remember that well — and my blue mask and a snorkel. I went underwater and it was an escape. Cousteau wrote about this in a book called <em>The Silent World</em>. When I was ten, I read it constantly, over and over again, almost like a bible. And he wrote about the first time. So Jacques Cousteau, the inventor of the aqualung, he wrote about the first time he put his head underwater. He was in a little tiny beach in the South of France, and he looked up, and he could see a trolley car going past on the other side of the beach — he could see people screaming and yelling on the beach. He could see clouds and birds. He put his head underwater, and he said this wonderful line: “I put my head underwater and civilization vanished with one last bow.” This is the world we live in. It is a planet of water.</p> <p><strong>A lot of people don’t know how to swim. They’re afraid to put their face in the water. What are they missing? </strong></p> <p>David Doubilet: Well, the people who are afraid to put their face in the water, it’s a natural reaction. I mean, my gosh, you’re not supposed to put your face in the water! Humans don’t particularly like the water. We’re not a particularly aquatic animal. But they are missing this incredible portion of the planet. A coral reef, for instance, it is the greatest of all visual biodiversity in our world. And they’ll miss that. And there are places — you don’t have to dive, but you can snorkel and see the reef. There are places you can see turtles, you can see dolphins, you can see sharks. You can see all the things that this other three-quarters of this planet has.</p> <p><strong>Did your family support this interest?</strong></p> <p>David Doubilet: Well, my father loved the water, though he was a terrible swimmer and never really wanted to go underwater, but he was a fisherman. We would go out; he would take me on fishing trips. We would go up into the Laurentian Mountains in Canada, where he grew up, or we would go — for the first time, he took me to a coral reef in the Bahamas. He wanted to go bonefishing, and he left me with the local dive guide, who taught me how to free-dive. I was in absolute heaven.</p> <p><strong>You must be a very good swimmer. </strong></p> <p>David Doubilet: I’ve always loved to swim. I used to compete when I was swimming, but that’s not it. Diving doesn’t require you to be an incredible swimmer. It requires you to be happy in the water, relaxed, and the ability to have the water surround you and buoy you up.</p> <p><strong>Do you remember when you first picked up a camera and took it underwater? </strong></p> <p>David Doubilet: I wanted to take pictures underwater. It was a new and upcoming art. And in the mid and late ‘50s, it was pretty primitive. You could make your own underwater camera house, and that’s the box that the camera came in. And the simplest way of doing it was taking a rubber bag.</p> <p>My father, who was a professor of surgery at New York University, brought home a rubber anesthesiologist’s bag. And if you stretched it, you could stretch it over a faceplate, the remains of an old mask. They had bands on it; you put the camera in the bag; you put the glass of the faceplate over there; you put the band around it. And there you had an underwater housing. You could manipulate the controls of the camera through the rubber walls of the bag and make pictures. The camera of choice, well, that was a Brownie Hawkeye. And the pictures that I made the first time around were absolutely terrible.</p> <p><strong>How old were you? </strong></p> <p>David Doubilet: I think I was 12.</p> <p><strong>When was the first time you took a pretty good photo underwater? </strong></p> <p>David Doubilet: I took a pretty good photo underwater when I was 13. And it got better and better.</p> <p><strong>What was the first one?</strong></p> <p>David Doubilet: I shot a picture of a man picking up an anchor in the Bahamas. It was an interesting picture because there was a little bit of action in it. It was not exactly the Cartier-Bresson decisive moment. There was this surface of the water. It was made with an old Leica and a housing that was made in Britain, which you had a choice of either the f-stop — in other words, the diaphragm of the housing — or focus, but not both. So I decided that it was more important to have things in focus than perfectly exposed. I discovered that what you could do is you could shoot black and white, which gave you a lot of latitude in the exposure. It was a lucky discovery because it was a basic training in how to see an image. Black and white is the base element of photography. It teaches you about light; it teaches you about motion; it teaches you about decisive action; it teaches you about gesture — everything that you needed to know.</p> <p><strong>What do you mean when you say “the decisive moment”?</strong></p> <p>David Doubilet: A picture is made out of light. That is the basic element. A picture is made out of composition, and within the composition, there is a decisive moment. This is a term coined by the great French photographer Cartier-Bresson — the decisive moment when you reach for something, when you jump for something, when you look at something. All photography is about allusion. It alludes to motion, it alludes to passion, it alludes to everything that humans want to deal with when we look in our natural world. Film captures it all. Film captures sound. Film captures motion. Photography can’t do that.</p> <p><strong>What did you study in college?</strong></p> <p>David Doubilet: I went to Boston University, and I was going to be a marine biologist, and I decided that this was not the direction I wanted to go in. I wanted to make images. And I studied film and broadcasting at Boston University. I did my first job for <em>National Geographic</em> when I was in my second year at Boston University.</p> <p><strong>You’ve also said that a great photo has flow and movement, and people know it when they see it. How do you get in position to capture that flow and movement?</strong></p> <p>David Doubilet: Gosh, that’s a tough question. Anticipation. We will see something that’s going to happen — that’s going to happen underwater — because it’s almost impossible to react. It’s not like on the surface when the camera comes up with pictures taken in one liquid motion. Underwater, we’re pushing something the size of a toaster oven. And we have to anticipate. But when it happens, it’s amazing: The sea lions circled by the salema; the clownfish — the male clownfish guarding the eggs of the young and aerating them. It’s a picture I waited — I worked on it for ten years to see if it was going to happen. I’ve photographed a lot of anemones. I’ve photographed a lot of clownfish. I knew this is how parental guidance happens within the anemone. And finally, there was a moment that it all happened.</p> <p><strong>So much great wildlife photography is about patience and, as you just said, anticipation. But it’s one thing to wait on land in a tree or a truck waiting for a lion. How do you wait underwater?</strong></p> <p>David Doubilet: The truth is you don’t. The most precious thing in the sea is time. Time. You may only have hours, sometimes minutes a day. We’re in a world where we’re nothing but trespassers, and we need to go farther and deeper. We need to make pictures in a world which we can’t see, in a world without light, and yet, make images without light. That’s the future. It’s most of the ocean. I’ve spent these 49 years examining the very edge of the ocean. So much more — we’re looking at the engine of life on our planet, and we don’t understand it.</p> <p><strong>What do you think is your most famous photograph?</strong></p> <p>David Doubilet: I’ve made a lot of pictures that seem to have legs on them. One of them, of course, was a circle of barracuda because it’s an image of humans and the sea. The other is a picture of a stingray and a sailboat under a slightly overcast sky in Grand Cayman Island in North Sound. And that picture is more about the quality of water and the whiteness of the sand. It’s almost Zen the way the waves will rake the sand in North Sound, just on the other side of the Barrier Reef, and the way the stingray’s moving and the edge of the water moving up and over the dome. And the sky, which was going in and out of clouds — slightly overcast, in and out, bits of sun — had a softness to it. And I’ve never shot a picture quite like that.</p> <p>Stingray City is an interesting place. We went to do a story there in the mid-‘80s. Fishermen would anchor on the sandbar behind the barrier reef in North Sound — white, white sand — and they’d clean their catch. And southern stingrays, which have always been considered, up until then, a fairly fearsome creature — you really didn’t want to step on them because they could do some fairly decent harm to your ankles or your calf when they shot their barb at you — they were kind of a feared creature. A couple of divers, friends of mine, went out there, and they said, “Well, we could feed these stingrays, maybe, and see what happens.” They went out there with a little bit of bait, a little bit of squid, and they fed the stingrays, and the stingrays began to flock around him. And the pictures were marvelous — white sand and beautiful flying creatures.</p> <p>They fed the stingrays; there were only six of them. Now there’s over 106. The population fluctuates up and down. Last year, three-quarters of a million people came to see the stingrays. It’s the most popular dive site in the whole world. The Cayman Island government has permanently protected stingrays and sharks, and the stingrays act as ambassadors to the ocean.</p> <p>And we still go back there. What are we doing in the most popular dive site in the world with a hundred — with three-quarters of a million people or a thousand people a day looking at these creatures? After they leave, the stingrays revert to their natural behavior, and they begin to fly over the sand, or they’ll lay down and sleep, or they’ll go and eat crustaceans beneath the sand. And the wind — and the silent waves breaking — whispers across North Sound, and it still has that quality. If you look at that picture, what I love about it is that there’s a motion of the wave in it. If you look at that picture, there’s a motion as the wave falls over the top of the lens. That’s what makes the picture. It’s all about this gesture, and it’s all about this moment.</p> <p>As a photographer, as a photojournalist, we are looking for a way to convince the unconvinced. Pictures have power, and they have the power to illuminate, and they have the power to even humiliate. They certainly have the power to celebrate, and they have the power to open people’s eyes to the sea. That’s what pictures can do.</p> <p><strong>Humiliate? Can you talk about a picture that humiliated someone? </strong></p> <p>David Doubilet: A picture that humiliates is a moment that I had when I was working on a story in Izu Peninsula in a little town called Futo. It’s about 60 miles south of Tokyo, and it’s a fishing village with an inner harbor and an outer harbor of cement, built just after the war. Our fishermen came to us, and he said, “I can’t work tomorrow or the next day or the next day after that because they have caught dolphins, and they will be driven into the harbor.”</p> <p>And a dolphin fisherman, a Futo, and another group from another area, found an enormous group of dolphins, a pod of dolphins, almost 1,500 strong. And they drove them into the inner harbor of Futo, closed the net, which the dolphins cannot leap over, and began to slaughter them. And they let me stay because we had been working with a fisherman there for a couple of months. They knew how my friend Koji and I worked and how hard we worked. So they let us stay, and I photographed this.</p> <p><strong>What happened when those photos came out? </strong></p> <p>David Doubilet: What happened with those photos is the photos didn’t appear for years because they were too graphic. If they had, it might have changed lives a lot. But those are the kind of photographs that open people’s eyes.</p> <p>And five years ago, six years ago, my friend Louie Psihoyos, formerly a fellow <em>National Geographic</em> photographer, put on the movie director’s hat and went out and did a film called <em>The Cove</em> — and won an Academy Award — about a dolphin slaughter in another town farther down across from Izu Peninsula called Taiji.</p> <p>People responded, and people looked at it. But the power of those photographs is still with us. I mean it also is a time and a place that is not going to be repeated because there’s never been that large a dolphin harvest since then.</p> <p><strong>You’ve also photographed a lot of shipwrecks. Is there something more haunting about that since oftentimes people died in those?</strong></p> <p>David Doubilet: I have a major passion for history, especially history of the Pacific War, the Atlantic War, the Second World War. Shipwreck — when a ship goes down with all the fire and all the horror, it goes again through this curtain of water and becomes something else. Not a tomb, but something more living, a real living memory of a time and a place. Classical underwater archeologists always refer to shipwrecks as the ultimate time capsule. And the same thing applies to our wrecks of the Second World War. We spent a lot of time with the National Park Service, with our friend Brett Seymour, diving on the USS Arizona in Pearl Harbor. Put your hand out on the side of a wreck. There’s 1,177 men still entombed in that wreck. And as you go down, it’s dirty green water in Pearl Harbor, and it’s very, very spooky, very misty. But you can almost hear the voices, and you can hear the time and the place, and they’re there still.</p> <p>But a shipwreck is also about a ship, and the challenge is to photograph it like a ship, to make pictures of parts of it that show it’s a ship. Plane wrecks are very interesting, too. And the Pacific, it was an aerial battleground. Constantly, planes were being shot down. When a plane hits the water, usually it breaks apart like an egg thrown against the wall, or it falls into deeper water. Or it winds up, as it falls down very slowly, upside down. There are a handful, maybe 15 or 16 plane wrecks for the entire Pacific War, of which thousands and thousands of planes went into the sea. Only a handful are still there, and when you see them, it looks like they’re flying into blue gloom.</p> <p><strong>How is it different from photographing wildlife underwater? What’s going on in your head?</strong></p> <p>David Doubilet: I’m thinking about time and place and people. What happened to the pilot in the plane? What happened to the people on the ship? What happened when it rolled over and sank? And then there’s this other magical thing with intact shipwrecks, is that you never see a ship. You see it when it’s launched, and you see it when it’s broken up on a beach in Bangladesh. But you never see the whole ship except if you’re underwater.</p> <p><strong>When you were traveling to some of these remote locations years ago, how did you send your pictures back to your publishers here? Did you have a digital card or something?</strong></p> <p>David Doubilet: It wasn’t a card. We would pack all our film into these wonderful little yellow cartons, and they sent us out with cartons, little tiny yellow cartons. They looked like sort of milk boxes, as it were, right now. And you’d put 60 rolls of film in, and you’d seal it up with packing tape, and you’d slap on the labels and “Do Not X-Ray” labels on the addresses, and you’d take them down to air freight, and you’d send them away.</p> <p><strong>How about the equipment? How much does this equipment weigh on land?</strong></p> <p>David Doubilet: Our cameras with the flashes weigh about 24, 28 pounds, depending on the lens. Maybe even a little bit more, each system. And when you get underwater, they’re two or three pounds, if that.</p> <p><strong>You’ve been doing this for almost half a century, which is hard to believe, looking at you. That’s a long time for technological changes. How has the technology changed in your job underwater? </strong></p> <p>David Doubilet: I’d like to talk about technology for a minute now. When I first came to <em>National Geographic</em>, underwater photographers could not photograph what they saw. It was a battle to try and make an image because we couldn’t see wide and we couldn’t see close. A <em>National Geographic</em> photographer named Bates Littlehales invented a housing called the ocean eye. This is in 1969 when I first started to work at <em>Geographic</em>. And it revolutionized underwater photography. It corrected the magnification; it let us use super-wide-angle lenses that Nikon and other companies were coming out with. It opened up the sea. It let me make the pictures that I saw.</p> <p>And every single underwater picture you’ve ever seen, whether it’s in a magazine or an advertisement or a motion picture, its DNA relates back to this invention, which was invented at <em>National Geographic</em>. Every single one. And we battled with this. We battled with the fact that a camera could only take 36 exposures. Clearly, you can’t change film underwater or change lenses.</p> <p>The digital revolution changed a lot of that. I would go in the field with as many as ten different cameras on a dive. That would give me 360 exposures if I shot all ten in the space of 90 minutes or two hours. Now we can make almost as many pictures as we can possibly take. <strong> </strong></p> <p><strong>How many frames do you shoot when you go down? </strong></p> <p>David Doubilet: Well, a card now can shoot 500 frames. It’s not unusual, in a situation that’s moving very rapidly and a very excited situation, to shoot an entire card underwater.</p> <p><strong>Over what period of time? </strong></p> <p>David Doubilet: An average dive can be anywhere from 45 minutes to two hours.</p> <p><strong>Digital cameras — even our phones — now allow us to take pictures that we can edit. How does that ability change what you do? </strong></p> <p>David Doubilet: The digital system, with just the lens and the sensor, can record everything. Everything is numbers. It records every nuance of shadow and every nuance of color. What you come back with is a piece of information that you might — the closest thing you can compare it to is a negative. It’s not the picture. It’s flat and almost lifeless, especially underwater. You may have all the information in it, and it is all the information, and when you add contrast, which is what the image needs, and saturation, the picture blooms. And it makes pictures that you saw. We have the ability to print pictures now — that’s the other half of the digital revolution — that have all the colors that the sea produces, especially blues.</p> <p><strong>Technology has made everybody a little bit of a better photographer. Is there still a whole other mountain to climb to be a great photographer? </strong></p> <p>David Doubilet: That’s a very good question. Every man, woman, and child, starting at the age of three, has a camera now. And we are making pictures that you couldn’t dream about. We’re making pieces of time that you never would have recorded before. We’re changing all our culture and all our habits in terms of recording our lives. And this is everything from politics to art. A photographer now has a lot of competition. But a photographer now also has these marvelous tools. You can see the picture that you make, you can dream a picture that you want, and you can record a picture that has all the elements of the poetry and the light that you thought about.</p> <p><strong>You’ve had enormous success finding a symphony of color in the darkness below. How do you find that? How do you light it?</strong></p> <p>David Doubilet: We go into the water, and we have two electronic flashes on long arms, attached to the camera house, or three sometimes. You look at the side of a reef, or the corner of a cave, or the edge of a kelp forest, and there are enormous amounts of color there, color that you can’t even anticipate. So there’s always the element of surprise. When the flash goes off, you don’t see the color. You see simply a burst. Now we can look in the back of the camera and say, “Oh, my God! Look at this place! Look at these things! What a surprise!” And that’s one of the great gifts of digital photography.</p> <p>We would work for months underwater and never see a picture. We wouldn’t see a picture until it was processed. We wouldn’t get home until — and reach <em>National Geographic</em><em>,</em> and then we saw our pictures. Now we see them instantly. We can correct them, we can look at them, we can anticipate them, we can revitalize them, we can relight them. We can be <em>photographers</em><em>.</em></p> <p><strong>How long do you think you can keep doing this, plopping down backwards off of a dive boat?</strong></p> <p>David Doubilet: What I love about diving is — again — you’re weightless, and you can keep doing it for quite a while, I think, until a point where you really don’t want to get on an airplane. The hardest thing about this business basically is — you’re not going to believe this — but excess baggage! Traveling with all the equipment you need to make pictures is really a lot of work and a headache. We got across the world like this. I would love to come back as a writer or a harmonica player.</p> <p><strong>You’ve spoken about pushing into the edge of the ocean, the new frontier. What is the biggest impediment? Is it the cold, the darkness, the depth?</strong></p> <p>David Doubilet: I think what we want to do, as we really look at the ocean, is we need tools that go into this dark part of the ocean. We are working down to about 150, 200 feet. Some technical divers will go deeper — two or three or 500 feet. Submarines will go deeper than that, but they are like riding an elevator. You go up, you go down. Maybe you can transverse a little bit but not very much. We’re dealing with creatures that move incredibly fast underwater and systems swirling below us, 600 feet down, whirls of squid, whirls of blue sharks feeding on squid, whirls of squid feeding on everything else, the rising of plankton at night — something we are working on right now.</p> <p>There are continuous surprises in the ocean. And to make these pictures in this dark world may require something more than light. We can shoot in very low light, but it may require something like sound or ultrasound to make the kind of pictures that the ocean is all about, the <em>engine</em> of the ocean is all about.</p> <p><strong>Is there a picture you still dream about taking? </strong></p> <p>David Doubilet: Oh, my God, is there a picture? Well, the honest answer to that: “Is there a picture?” It’s the next picture, obviously, that I dream about taking. But there’s all sorts of things I would like to see: pictures from Iceland that I would like to take; pictures going back to the shallow coral shelves of atolls in French Polynesia; pictures of coral; pictures of penguins; pictures of icebergs. We’re doing a lot of work shooting icebergs that are half-in, half-out of the water. Remember, an iceberg is a metaphor for the ocean: a little bit above, a lot below, unseen, unheard of, faintly sculptural, and intensely amazing. That’s an iceberg, and if you can shoot the picture half-above and half-below, that’s a wonderful way to go about it. I do a lot of pictures like that. I love these pictures when you’re looking at the surface and you’re looking beneath the surface.</p> <p><strong>You’ve made that technique famous. How did that happen? Can you tell us about a favorite photo you took that way?</strong></p> <p>David Doubilet: To shoot a picture half-in and half-out of the water, you combine the two elements of our planet, the air world and the water world. And this very thin surface of the water that scientists call the meniscus is a gateway, a division between these two worlds. That’s why these pictures are popular because you literally are invited into this other world. You see the difference between two things. You see the difference between sunlight and shadow on the surface, and color and depth beneath, and the trick is to combine the motion and the creature, or the place underwater, with the best that the atmosphere — the air world — can afford. They’re tricky in terms of composition and just in terms of creative thought. They’re more tricky technically because you have to make sure everything’s sharp, and you have to be able to light the bottom part of the frame, and you have to expose the upper part of the frame. The hardest thing about taking a picture that’s half-in, half-out of the water are droplets on the dome of the camera.</p> <p><strong>Are you, yourself, half-in and half-out? </strong></p> <p>David Doubilet: Yes, I’m sort of bobbing there, or kneeling or standing, depending on where I am.</p> <p><strong>Is there a Holy Grail for you? Is there an image that you still really hope to capture?</strong></p> <p>David Doubilet: Oh, my God, I would love to capture the Northern Lights, half-in, half-out of the water. I would love to see the fish of the Amazon clearwater. I would love to continue working on the east coast and the west coast of Greenland, working with icebergs. There are all sorts of Holy Grail imagery that I’d love.</p> <p><strong>You must not mind cold water. </strong></p> <p>David Doubilet: Actually, I quite love cold water. I don’t mind it at all. And in Iceland, there’s incredibly clear water. I love the quality of water. It is, without a doubt, the most precious commodity on our planet. It’s life itself. I’d like to go to the Mato Grosso do Sul in Brazil. I’d like to see its clearwater. It’s like photographing Amazon fish in clearwater, a place called Bonita. We would like to go to some more of the Antarctic islands. And Jennifer and I, a special place, would be the east coast and the west coast of Greenland.</p> <p><strong>So 49 years of taking photographs for </strong><em><strong>National Geographic</strong></em><strong>. If you were to guess and put it all together, how much time have you spent underwater? </strong></p> <p>David Doubilet: We did a couple of calculations this year. I figured it’s about 100 to 150 diving days a year times four hours a day, on the outside.</p> <p><strong>So nearly half of the year, you’re in the water for about four hours a day. What has that physically done to you? You don’t look your age.</strong></p> <p>David Doubilet: I used to be six feet five inches tall and I’ve shrunk.</p> <p><strong>You’re joking.</strong></p> <p>David Doubilet: Yes.</p> <p><strong>But do you think it’s changed you in any way?</strong></p> <p>David Doubilet: It gives you this perspective of the planet. You’re in a weightless world. It’s one kind of photography that literally doing the photography feels great. I can’t even imagine what other kind of photographer feels like that — maybe the guys leaping out of aircraft and doing air-to-air, as skydivers do. That feels great. Or possibly, if there’s some kind of photography called, like, “spa photography.”<strong> </strong></p> <p>You’re physically moving in a world that is 600 times thicker than air. You’re away from gravity and you’re seeing a world that has very little relationship with the world above. “Civilization vanishes with one last bow” when you’re deep. And that is a kind of idea that invigorates how you live on this planet.</p> <p><strong>A lot of divers have problems with their ears. Have you had any physical problems that way? </strong></p> <p>David Doubilet: Divers do have problems with their ears from time to time. One of the things that gives you the most problem is diving with a cold or pushing a cold, which is what we all do from time to time when you have the pressure of the assignment going on. And if you have a cold, there’s something called a reverse block. In other words, as you come up, your Eustachian canal becomes blocked and you have an intense pain. So you can see the surface, maybe 10 feet above or 15 feet above. You can’t get there without almost passing out or even rupturing your eardrum. So you have to go down and up and down and up until the mucus in your Eustachian canal loosens up a bit, the air squeals through, and it equalizes your eardrum.</p> <p><strong>Do you always dive with somebody? </strong></p> <p>David Doubilet: Jennifer and I dive together. We work — when we go underwater, we may be separate, yards away sometimes, or more than that. We are self-contained but ready to go to each other’s aid. And sometimes it’s interesting.</p> <p>In the last story in <em>Geographic</em><em>,</em> we had a wonderful crocodile slide between the two of us. It looked like I let the crocodile go after Jennifer, but it was a moment later that she turned and made a picture of him. I warned her by firing the strobe really fast at the crocodile. It was a close call, except, you see, the thing is that not all crocodiles are equal.</p> <p><strong>How do you tell a bad crocodile from a good one?</strong></p> <p>David Doubilet: If you’re diving in Africa with a Nile crocodile, that’s a very dangerous crocodile. Grouchy is more than enough to describe them. And the other incredibly aggressive crocodile is the saltwater crocodile. That’s all over Southeast Asia, from northern Australia all the way through the Philippines and into Raja Ampat and into Indonesia. That’s a very dangerous creature. But these Cuban crocodiles — the Cuban crocodiles are fairly mild-mannered. During breeding season, they can be obstreperous but not so bad. American alligators are not so bad. So everything is a little bit different.</p> <p><strong>You’ve been to almost every corner of the world and you chose to live on the Saint Lawrence River and have another home in South Africa. Why those two places?</strong></p> <p>David Doubilet: Well, South Africa is an entirely incredible place. It’s the meeting of two great oceans, actually three if you include the Southern Ocean — the Atlantic and the Indian Ocean and the Southern Ocean. It’s an incredibly rich place offshore. It’s the home of great white sharks. It’s the home of southern right whales, and it’s South Africa. I can’t describe it anything more. Cape Town is one of the world’s most beautiful cities. Where we live, where we actually have a piece of land now that we may build on just east of Cape Town, is a beautiful community. Right whales — off a cliff right next to the house that we may build — mate every winter.</p> <p><strong>The Saint Lawrence River in New York is a little bit closer to home for you, as a former Manhattan boy.</strong></p> <p>David Doubilet: Jennifer grew up on the Saint Lawrence. We could have lived anywhere in the world or anywhere in the United States. We looked at the West Coast, and we looked at Maine, and we looked at the South. But the Saint Lawrence, in our little town of Clayton, is completely magical — small and tight, cold in the winter, and in the summer glorious. A thousand islands spread around us, and off the ends of our docks are a whole group of shipwrecks dating all the way from before the Revolution, all the way to very recent shipwrecks. There are bass; there are muskie; the water’s clear. And the sunset! It sets right over Kingston, across the way, across into Canada.</p> <p><strong>How has it changed your life to have a diving partner in Jennifer?</strong></p> <p>David Doubilet: We have a partnership that, in essence, the best thing is that we can share an experience. We come up and have a moment that we’ve seen underwater that you can’t talk about, you can’t share — something I wouldn’t want to contemplate any other way. But Jennifer is making — and has always made — incredibly serious, very, very different images than I have. And it’s important that we both make different things.</p> <p><strong>Why?</strong></p> <p>David Doubilet: Because we need to have four eyes, two brains, looking at the ocean. We need to have different points of view. We need science. We need art. And we need those moments that each of us individually capture.</p> <p><strong>Is she science and you’re art?</strong></p> <p>David Doubilet: I think so. I’m certainly not science as much as she’d like me to be, but she is art more than I can imagine, too.</p> <p><strong>Do you have any other advice for people who might want to follow in your footsteps and learn more about the ocean or photograph it? </strong></p> <p>David Doubilet: The ocean is all of our planet. And the ocean right now, from a coral reef to the poles to the depths of the ocean, much of it is still totally unknown. For instance, for every swordfish caught, there are at least 15 blue sharks landed. And the swordfish that appears in, say, for instance, the fish market in Vigo, in Spain, which is the main market for all of Europe, comes from our Grand Banks in the middle of the North Atlantic. There used to be absolute mountains of these blue sharks caught for every swordfish, 15 of them, and now there’s just mounds of them. Sharks throughout the world are endangered because of the need, the Asian need, and especially the Chinese need for shark fin soup — a delicacy, but with the rising economy, something you could have for lunch.</p> <p><strong>Do you think aquatic photography is a good profession for people to go into now, in 2018?</strong></p> <p>David Doubilet: Let me put it this way. This planet needs you. This ocean needs people. It needs engineers. It needs artists. It certainly needs scientists. It needs economists. It needs poets. It needs writers. It needs construction people. It needs everything that humans can throw at it.</p> <p>We are in times of great change and our very survival depends on the survival of the ocean. And the survival of the ocean definitely depends on how we live on this planet, how we deal with the ocean. We need all the knowledge we can get. We are living on an ocean planet and we know so little about it.</p> <p><strong>Thank you. That was amazing. </strong></p> <p>David Doubilet: I hope it was all right.</p> </div>  </aside>  <div class="read-more__toggle collapsed" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#full-interview"><a href="#" class="sans-4 btn">Read full interview</a></div> </article> </section> </div> <div class="tab-pane fade" id="gallery" role="tabpanel"> <section class="isotope-wrapper">  <header class="toolbar toolbar--gallery bg-white clearfix"> <div class="col-md-6"> <div class="serif-4">David Doubilet Gallery</div> </div> <div class="col-md-6 text-md-right isotope-toolbar"> <ul class="list-unstyled list-inline m-b-0 text-brand-primary sans-4"> <li class="list-inline-item" data-filter=".photo"><i class="icon-icon_camera"></i>21 photos</li> </ul> </div> </header> <div class="isotope-gallery isotope-box single-achiever__gallery clearfix"> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.66578947368421" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-GettyImages-134224349.jpg" data-image-caption="2009: David Doubilet with a potato cod on assignment on the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia. (Photo by David Doubilet/National Geographic/Getty Images)" data-image-copyright="Photographer with a potato cod on assignment on Great Barrier Reef. Queensland, Australia." data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-GettyImages-134224349-380x253.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-GettyImages-134224349-760x506.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.66710526315789" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-1978-2280-GettyImages-80895037.jpg" data-image-caption="November 1978: David Doubilet photographs Eugenie Clark, "The Shark Lady," as she dives the depths of the Red Sea. Clark is known for both her research on shark behavior and her study of fish and was a pioneer in the field of scuba diving for research purposes. David Doubilet graduated from Boston University in 1970. The following year, he shot his first story — on the garden eels of the Red Sea — for <i>National Geographic</i>. David Doubilet has been a contract photographer for the magazine since 1976. (Photo by David Doubilet/National Geographic/Getty Images)" data-image-copyright="November 1978: David Doubilet photographs Eugenie Clark, The Shark Lady, as she dives the depths of the Red Sea. Clark is known for both her research on shark behavior and her study of fish and was a pioneer in the field of scuba diving for research purposes. David Doubilet graduated from Boston University in 1970. The following year, he shot his first story — on the garden eels of the Red Sea — for National Geographic. David Doubilet has been a contract photographer for the magazine since 1976. (Photo by David Doubilet/National Geographic/Getty Images)" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-1978-2280-GettyImages-80895037-380x254.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-1978-2280-GettyImages-80895037-760x507.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-1992-2280-BOOK-PACIFIC-COVER-Doubliet2.jpg" data-image-caption="1992: <i>Pacific: An Undersea Journey</i> by David Doubilet. Doubilet takes us on an expedition off the coasts of California and British Columbia before turning outward to the Hawaiian Islands and the Galapagos. He continues westward across the Pacific, passing by the tiny island groups of Palau and Kerema to Japan, where he explores the sheer submarine cliffs of Suruga Bay at Izu Peninsula. In Papua New Guinea and the waters of the Southwest Pacific — the most diverse coral paradise in the world — Doubilet captures the remnants of World War II battles, underwater wrecks now softened by coral growth and inhabited by schools of glassy sweepers. Moving southward, he touches on the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Australia and lonely Lord Howe Island in the Tasman Sea. The journey ends in the rich temperate waters of New Zealand. Doubilet’s mastery of the art of underwater photography is evident in his stunning color images of the world beneath the sea. In anecdotal essays about each region, Doubilet describes his adventures while diving, giving voice to the otherworldly beauty of his imagery. (© David Doubilet)" data-image-copyright="wp-1992-2280-BOOK-PACIFIC-COVER-Doubliet2" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-1992-2280-BOOK-PACIFIC-COVER-Doubliet2-380x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-1992-2280-BOOK-PACIFIC-COVER-Doubliet2-760x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.2006319115324" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-david-doubilet-and-jen-hayes.jpg" data-image-caption="Underwater photographers David Doubilet and Jennifer Hayes are married partners who work together as a team to produce <i>National Geographic</i> stories from equatorial coral reefs to beneath the polar ice. Doubilet estimates he has spent nearly half his life in the sea since taking his first underwater photograph at the age of 12 with a Brownie Hawkeye camera sealed in a bag. Between them, Hayes and Doubilet have photographed and explored the ocean depths in such places as New Zealand, Canada, Japan, Tasmania, Scotland, and Antarctica. (National Geographic)" data-image-copyright="wp-david-doubilet-and-jen-hayes" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-david-doubilet-and-jen-hayes-317x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-david-doubilet-and-jen-hayes-633x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.66578947368421" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-silky-sharks-CUBA.jpg" data-image-caption="Stable populations of silky sharks patrol the rich coral reefs of Gardens of the Queen National Marine Park in Cuba. The marine park, resembling the untouched Caribbean of Doubilet’s youth, has stable populations of sharks. “We ventured out to open water to dive with dozens of sleek silky sharks, which formed a perfect carousel around us,” wrote Doubilet and Hayes in <i>National Geographic</i>. (© David Doubilet)" data-image-copyright="wp-silky sharks CUBA" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-silky-sharks-CUBA-380x253.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-silky-sharks-CUBA-760x506.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.66578947368421" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-harp-seal-pup-Gulf-of-St.-Lawrence.jpg" data-image-caption="A harp seal pup waits for its mother to return to nurse. Harp seals are born on the Gulf of Saint Lawrence sea ice in late February and nursed for 12 to 15 days before their mother abandons them. David Doubilet and Jennifer Hayes met diver Mario Cyr in Îles-de-la-Madeleine. They took a fishing boat and pushed into the thinning sea ice, which supported 10,000 harp seals. (Photo by David Doubilet)" data-image-copyright="Harp Seal Pup" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-harp-seal-pup-Gulf-of-St.-Lawrence-380x253.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-harp-seal-pup-Gulf-of-St.-Lawrence-760x506.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.3013698630137" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-1994-2280-The-Red-Sea.jpg" data-image-caption="1994: <i>The Red Sea</i> by David Doubilet and Andrea Ghisotti. This volume is an invitation to follow famous underwater photographers along spectacular routes over the floor of the Red Sea, a veiled world in the limpid depths, among boundless submerged gardens, fantastically shaped fish, and plants in magnificent colors, which are often the background to well-preserved wrecks that the sea has transformed into additional microcosms teeming with life. David Doubilet began his career in the Red Sea when he got what he calls his "big break" and shot his first project for <i>National Geographic</i> on garden eels in the Red Sea in Israel. (© David Doubilet)" data-image-copyright="wp-1994-2280-The Red Sea" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-1994-2280-The-Red-Sea-292x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-1994-2280-The-Red-Sea-584x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.66842105263158" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-2009-01713-David-Doubilet-selfie.jpg" data-image-caption="David Doubilet in a shark case, taking a selfie, in the waters off of South Australia in the 1970s. “We shoot [selfies] all the time because there is nothing else to do when you are decompressing after a deep dive,” he says. Selfies have built-in advantages. “You don’t have to credit anyone else and there is always the delete button.” (David Doubilet)" data-image-copyright="Selfie David Doubilet shark cage" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-2009-01713-David-Doubilet-selfie-380x254.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-2009-01713-David-Doubilet-selfie-760x508.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.66578947368421" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-gentoo-and-chinstrap-penguins-antarctica.jpg" data-image-caption="2011: Chinstrap and gentoo penguins on a small ice floe off Danko Island, Antarctic Peninsula. ”I came late in life to the ice, but now ice is in my blood. I’ve been seduced by icebergs, and over the past few seasons, I’ve been working on them at every opportunity. I think of icebergs as a perfect metaphor for the sea — only a small percentage is visible to us. We were lucky to find this 'bergy bit' with a small group of chinstrap and gentoo penguins squabbling on top of it. I made a few frames of the idyllic scene before they began to push each other off and slide down one side, pop up on the other, and start over again. I was excited when two gentoo penguins circled the ice underwater, providing perspective. Look how much ice there is below water. One of the greatest joys of shooting half-and-half is that there’s always a surprise — especially the way the surface receives the light.” (Photo by David Doubilet)" data-image-copyright="gentoo and chinstrap penguins on an ice floe near danko island a" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-gentoo-and-chinstrap-penguins-antarctica-380x253.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-gentoo-and-chinstrap-penguins-antarctica-760x506.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.66447368421053" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-fisherman-Okavango-Delta-Botswana.jpg" data-image-caption="A fisherman creates a silhouette in his wooden <i>mokoro</i> over a vast lily forest in the Ncamasere Channel in the Panhandle region of the Okavango Delta in Botswana. Doubilet swam among crocodiles in Botswana’s Okavango Delta, night-diving in crocodile caves with guides carrying AK-47s, and yielding images of “unbelievably beautiful” forests of water lilies and their inhabitants and banks of golden papyrus lining the Ncamasere Channel. (© David Doubilet)" data-image-copyright="Fisherman in Mokoro, Okavango Delta Botswana" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-fisherman-Okavango-Delta-Botswana-380x252.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-fisherman-Okavango-Delta-Botswana-760x505.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.66710526315789" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-Circle-of-Barracuda.jpg" data-image-caption="A circle of barracuda surrounding diver Dinah Halstead in the clear waters of Papua New Guinea. David Doubilet was in Papua New Guinea when a group of chevron barracuda began circling him. He swam back to the boat and convinced a friend to dive with him. The barracuda obliged by circling her, and Doubilet got his shot. Barracuda form schools during the day as a defense against predation and break up at dusk to hunt. (Photo by David Doubilet)" data-image-copyright="Circle of Barracuda" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-Circle-of-Barracuda-380x254.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-Circle-of-Barracuda-760x507.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.4785992217899" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-1998-2280-GettyImages-176966933.jpg" data-image-caption="1998: A portrait of <i>National Geographic</i> photographer David Doubilet in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. Doubilet began snorkeling at the age of eight in the seas off the northern New Jersey coast. By the age of 13, he was taking black and white pictures above and below the sea with his first camera, a pre-war Leica. At 17, he was the laboratory photographer at the Sandy Hook Marine Sciences Laboratory in Sandy Hook, New Jersey. In 2002, he was inducted into the International Scuba Diving Hall of Fame. (Photo by Mauricio Handler/National Geographic/Getty Images)" data-image-copyright="A portrait of National Geographic Photographer David Doubilet" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-1998-2280-GettyImages-176966933-257x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-1998-2280-GettyImages-176966933-514x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.67894736842105" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/wordpress_2_1292.jpg" data-image-caption="The American Academy of Achievement’s Class of 2008 gather before the Banquet of the Golden Plate ceremonies at the Four Seasons Resort Hualalai in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. (© Academy of Achievement)" data-image-copyright="wordpress_2_1292" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/wordpress_2_1292-380x258.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/04/wordpress_2_1292-760x516.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.70263157894737" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-water-light-time-book-1.jpg" data-image-caption="2006: <i>Water Light Time</i> by David Doubilet. This fascinating and evocative volume looks at a world in which humans are neither the measure nor the master, but an encumbered intruder. From the waters of the Galapagos to the Red Sea, from the Pacific shores to the fresh waters of North America, <i>Water Light Time</i> includes over 25 years of Doubilet’s work and reveals the mesmerizing beauty of more than 30 bodies of water. (Photo by David Doubilet)" data-image-copyright="wp-2006-water light time book" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-water-light-time-book-1-380x267.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-water-light-time-book-1-760x534.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.66578947368421" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/WP-American-crocodile.jpg" data-image-caption="American crocodile, an apex predator that lives in the dense mangroves within the Gardens of the Queen National Marine Park. The crocodiles navigate the mangroves, keeping the water channels open and making new ones, helping sustain water flow through critical habitats. Scientists refer to the crocodiles as the engineers of the mangrove. David Doubilet’s determination to push technical boundaries in his work resulted in the invention of the first "split-level" camera, which has different focus points for the top and bottom halves of the lens. It allows the photographer to shoot what’s over and under the water surface simultaneously. (David Doubilet)" data-image-copyright="WP-American crocodile" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/WP-American-crocodile-380x253.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2018/09/WP-American-crocodile-760x506.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.66578947368421" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/WP-2013-2280-GettyImages-185333915.jpg" data-image-caption="2013: David Doubilet is interviewed at National Geographic offices in Washington, D.C. Doubilet is the recipient of many prestigious awards, including the Sara Prize, the Lowell Thomas Award, and the Lennart Nilsson Award in Photography, and a member of the Royal Photographic Society. (Larry French/Getty Images for TASCHEN America)" data-image-copyright="National Geographic Photographers Sign 125th Anniversary Taschen Book" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/WP-2013-2280-GettyImages-185333915-380x253.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2018/09/WP-2013-2280-GettyImages-185333915-760x506.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.39473684210526" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-2280-sidebyside-symposium-and-awards-presentation-2008konasummit1357.jpg" data-image-caption="2008: Academy guest of honor David Doubilet shares his underwater photographs with delegates and members at a symposium during the 47th annual International Achievement Summit in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii; Awards Council member Dr. Steven Rosenberg, Chief of Surgery at the National Cancer Institute, presents the Golden Plate Award to David Doubilet during the 2008 Banquet of the Golden Plate ceremonies at the Four Seasons Hualalai, Hawaii. (© Academy of Achievement)" data-image-copyright="wp-2280-sidebyside-symposium-and-awards-presentation-2008konasummit1357" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-2280-sidebyside-symposium-and-awards-presentation-2008konasummit1357-380x150.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-2280-sidebyside-symposium-and-awards-presentation-2008konasummit1357-760x300.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.66578947368421" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-fishermen-Papua-New-Guinea.jpg" data-image-caption="A half-and-half image of a native fisherman with his young son in an outrigger from a village on the Willaumez Peninsula on the coast of New Britain, Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea. Kimbe Bay, shaped like the cup of a chalice, “is a world,” says photographer David Doubilet, “more alien than the edges of space.” (Photo by David Doubilet)" data-image-copyright="Father and Son Fisherman" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-fishermen-Papua-New-Guinea-380x253.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-fishermen-Papua-New-Guinea-760x506.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.66710526315789" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/WP-SEATED-EARLE-DOUBILET-JENNIFER-2008konasummit0291.jpg" data-image-caption="Dr. Sylvia Earle, David Doubilet, and Jennifer Hayes at a symposium during the American Academy of Achievement's 2008 International Achievement Summit in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. (© Academy of Achievement)" data-image-copyright="WP-SEATED-EARLE-DOUBILET-JENNIFER-2008konasummit0291" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/WP-SEATED-EARLE-DOUBILET-JENNIFER-2008konasummit0291-380x253.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2018/09/WP-SEATED-EARLE-DOUBILET-JENNIFER-2008konasummit0291-760x507.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.66710526315789" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-2008konasummit0280.jpg" data-image-caption="2008: Senator Edward J. Markey, a national leader on energy, the environment, and climate change, moderates a discussion on land and water conservation with legendary oceanographer and explorer Dr. Sylvia Earle, and David Doubilet, at the American Academy of Achievement's International Achievement Summit in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii." data-image-copyright="wp-2008konasummit0280" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-2008konasummit0280-380x253.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-2008konasummit0280-760x507.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.99342105263158" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/wp-Douilet-Face-to-Face-with-Sharks-cover-1.jpg" data-image-caption="2009: Face to Face with Sharks by David Doubilet and Jennifer Hayes. It is man’s greatest fear — being eaten alive. And diving down here in the depths, the streamlined shark holds every advantage. How close do you want to get? 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Fauci, M.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/sally-field/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Sally Field</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/lord-norman-foster/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Lord Norman Foster</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/aretha-franklin/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Aretha Franklin</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/milton-friedman-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Milton Friedman, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/carlos-fuentes/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Carlos Fuentes</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/athol-fugard/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Athol Fugard</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/ernest-j-gaines/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Ernest J. Gaines</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/william-h-gates-iii/"><span class="achiever-list-name">William H. Gates III</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/leymah-gbowee/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Leymah Gbowee</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/frank-gehry/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Frank O. Gehry</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/murray-gell-mann-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Murray Gell-Mann, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/carlos-ghosn/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Carlos Ghosn</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/vince-gill/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Vince Gill</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/ruth-bader-ginsburg/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Ruth Bader Ginsburg</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/louise-gluck/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Louise Glück</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/whoopi-goldberg/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Whoopi Goldberg</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/jane-goodall/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Dame Jane Goodall</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/doris-kearns-goodwin/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Doris Kearns Goodwin, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/mikhail-s-gorbachev/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Mikhail S. Gorbachev</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/nadine-gordimer/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Nadine Gordimer</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/stephen-jay-gould/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Stephen Jay Gould, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/carol-greider-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Carol Greider, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/john-grisham/"><span class="achiever-list-name">John Grisham</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/sir-john-gurdon/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Sir John Gurdon</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/dorothy-hamill/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Dorothy Hamill</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/demis-hassabis-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Demis Hassabis, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/lauryn-hill/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Lauryn Hill</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/sir-edmund-hillary/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Sir Edmund Hillary</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/reid-hoffman/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Reid Hoffman</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/khaled-hosseini/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Khaled Hosseini, M.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/ron-howard/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Ron Howard</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/john-hume/"><span class="achiever-list-name">John Hume</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/louis-ignarro-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Louis Ignarro, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/daniel-inouye/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Daniel K. Inouye</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/jeremy-irons/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Jeremy Irons</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/john-irving/"><span class="achiever-list-name">John Irving</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/kazuo-ishiguro/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Kazuo Ishiguro</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/sir-peter-jackson/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Sir Peter Jackson</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/donald-c-johanson/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Donald C. Johanson, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/frank-m-johnson/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Frank M. Johnson, Jr.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/philip-johnson/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Philip C. Johnson</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/chuck-jones/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Chuck Jones</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/james-earl-jones/"><span class="achiever-list-name">James Earl Jones</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/quincy-jones/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Quincy Jones</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/beverly-joubert/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Beverly Joubert</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/dereck-joubert/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Dereck Joubert</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/paul-kagame/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Paul Kagame</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/thomas-keller-2/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Thomas Keller</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/anthony-m-kennedy/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Anthony M. Kennedy</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/carole-king/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Carole King</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/b-b-king/"><span class="achiever-list-name">B.B. King</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/coretta-scott-king/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Coretta Scott King</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/henry-kissinger-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Henry A. Kissinger, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/willem-j-kolff/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Willem J. Kolff, M.D., Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/wendy-kopp/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Wendy Kopp</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/henry-r-kravis/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Henry R. Kravis</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/nicholas-d-kristof/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Nicholas D. Kristof</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/mike-krzyzewski/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Mike Krzyzewski</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/ray-kurzwell/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Ray Kurzweil</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/eric-lander-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Eric S. Lander, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/robert-s-langer-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Robert S. Langer, Sc.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/richard-leakey/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Richard E. Leakey</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/leon-lederman-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Leon Lederman, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/robert-lefkowitz-m-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Robert J. Lefkowitz, M.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/congressman-john-r-lewis/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Congressman John R. Lewis</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/maya-lin/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Maya Lin</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/george-lucas/"><span class="achiever-list-name">George Lucas</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/norman-mailer/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Norman Mailer</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/peyton-manning/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Peyton Manning</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/wynton-marsalis/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Wynton Marsalis</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/john-c-mather-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">John C. Mather, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/johnny-mathis/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Johnny Mathis</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/ernst-mayr-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Ernst Mayr, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/willie-mays/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Willie Mays</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/frank-mccourt/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Frank McCourt</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/david-mccullough/"><span class="achiever-list-name">David McCullough</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/audra-mcdonald/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Audra McDonald</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/admiral-william-h-mcraven/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Admiral William H. McRaven, USN</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/w-s-merwin/"><span class="achiever-list-name">W. S. Merwin</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/reinhold-messner/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Reinhold Messner</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/james-a-michener/"><span class="achiever-list-name">James A. Michener</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/marvin-minsky-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Marvin Minsky, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/mario-j-molina-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Mario J. Molina, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/n-scott-momaday-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">N. Scott Momaday, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/story-musgrave/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Story Musgrave, M.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/ralph-nader/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Ralph Nader</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/peggy-noonan/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Peggy Noonan</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/jessye-norman/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Jessye Norman</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/tommy-norris/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Lt. Thomas R. Norris, USN</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/joyce-carol-oates/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Joyce Carol Oates</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/pierre-omidyar/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Pierre Omidyar</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/jimmy-page/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Jimmy Page</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/larry-page/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Larry Page</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/arnold-palmer/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Arnold Palmer</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/leon-panetta/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Leon Panetta</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/rosa-parks/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Rosa Parks</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/suzan-lori-parks/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Suzan-Lori Parks</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/linus-pauling/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Linus C. Pauling, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/shimon-peres/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Shimon Peres</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/itzhak-perlman/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Itzhak Perlman</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/general-david-petraeus/"><span class="achiever-list-name">General David H. Petraeus, USA</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/sidney-poitier/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Sidney Poitier</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/general-colin-l-powell/"><span class="achiever-list-name">General Colin L. Powell, USA</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/harold-prince/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Harold Prince</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/venki-ramakrishnan-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Venki Ramakrishnan, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/lord-martin-rees/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Lord Martin Rees</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/lloyd-richards/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Lloyd Richards</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/sally-ride-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Sally K. Ride, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/sonny-rollins/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Sonny Rollins</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/anthony-romero/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Anthony Romero</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/james-rosenquist/"><span class="achiever-list-name">James Rosenquist</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/pete-rozelle/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Pete Rozelle</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/bill-russell/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Bill Russell</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/albie-sachs/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Albie Sachs</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/oliver-sacks-m-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Oliver Sacks, M.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/jonas-salk-m-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Jonas Salk, M.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/frederick-sanger-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Frederick Sanger, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/george-b-schaller-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">George B. Schaller, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/barry-scheck/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Barry Scheck</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/richard-evans-schultes-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Richard Evans Schultes, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/general-h-norman-schwarzkopf/"><span class="achiever-list-name">General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, USA</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/stephen-schwarzman/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Stephen A. Schwarzman</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/glenn-t-seaborg-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Glenn T. Seaborg, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/neil-sheehan/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Neil Sheehan</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/admiral-alan-shepard-jr/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Admiral Alan B. Shepard, Jr., USN</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/ellen-johnson-sirleaf/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Ellen Johnson Sirleaf</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/carlos-slim/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Carlos Slim Helú</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190130044624/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/frederick-w-smith/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Frederick W. 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