Biography of Director Bob Talbot:

As a world-renowned marine photographer, award-winning filmmaker and dedicated environmentalist, Bob Talbot has combined his unique visual style and storytelling ability with state-of-the-art entertainment technologies to create intimate ocean experiences on film.

His photographs of whales and dolphins have been reproduced into millions of lithographs distributed around the world and his motion picture work has appeared in many television, film and special venue productions. Talbot filmed the wildlife sequences for the Warner Bros. series of Free Willy feature films and Universal Pictures’ Flipper. He directed and photographed the IMAX(copyright symbol) Ridefilm(TM) motion simulation system film Dolphins: The Ride, and acted as a director and cinematographer for sequences in the Academy Award-nominated MacGillivray Freeman IMAX film, Dolphins. Talbot also directed and photographed the award-winning IMAX (copyright) film Ocean Men: Extreme Dive about world champion free divers Pipin Ferreras and Umberto Pelizzari.

Talbot has worked on several Cousteau Society productions, and continues to collaborate with Jean Michel Cousteau on Ocean Futures projects. He serves on the board of governors for Oceana, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and the Earth Communications Office. He is Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation.