Christopher Brown is an alumnus of St. John's College in Annapolis, MD (http://www.sjca.edu/). He has worked in the film industry since 1976, and in 1981 became an independent film and video producer (DOCENT FILMS) whose clients include: Walt Disney Theme Park Productions, NGS Educational Films, WNET's "NATURE" (WNET- New York), Medill News Service (Northwestern U.), American Movie Classics, The Museum of the American Royal (Kansas City, MO), the Kansas State Film Commission, the International Museum of Cartoon Art (Boca Raton), the Museum of Florida History, and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection.
A member of the documentary crew for the 1987 Wakulla Springs Project, he was certified in cave diving in 1989 and has since been responsible for the discovery and initiating the exploration of five virgin cave systems in the Woodville Karst Plain, Wakulla Spring's home geological region.
He handled 2nd camera, sound, and many animals for a National Geographic Society Special on the Okeefenokee Swamp, "Realm of the Alligator," which won an Emmy for sound recording. He was director and cinematographer of a NGS Educational Film for children about dogs, and cinematographer for an episode of the WNET-New York series "NATURE," also about "man's best friend." Filming Florida State University's Windover Archaeological Project with a grant from WGBH's "NOVA," Chris provided footage of that event to WQED's "Infinite Voyage," Australian Broadcasting's "Quantum" Series, and The Learning Channel's "Archaeology" series. "The Mystery Continues" which he wrote, shot, and directed for Wakulla Springs State Park won two Crystal Reel Awards from the Florida Motion Picture and Television Association for Best Videography. His children's video "What in the World is a Manatee?" won the the FMPTA Bronze Certificate for Documentaries.
Chris headed a consulting team conducting a soundstage feasibility study for the Kansas State Film Commission. He was the archivist, under a Federal Grant, of over 200 hours of Florida Development Commission Films (1940-1975), working at the Florida Bureau of Archives and Records Management, viewing, describing, and conserving the collection and authoring the catalog.
As Sci-Graphica Public Relations, Chris is a global distributor, via the Internet, of diving videos about cave and wreck diving exploration (The Technical Diving Video Library http://www.aulinc.com/video.htm ). He is a diving consultant on hydro-geology related projects for state agencies (FL Department of Environmental Protection; FL Game and Freshwater Fish Commission) and private land owners.
Chris' published articles on scuba technology, cave diving safety and biology have appeared nationally and internationally in Sport Diver, DeepTech (http://www.deep-tech.com/order.html), Scuba Times (http://www.scubatimes.com), aquaCorps, Asian Diver (Singapore), DiveLog New Zealand (http://www.divenewzealand.com), and the Journal of the National Association for Cave Diving.
A popular master of ceremonies, presenter, and lecturer, he has spoken for Florida State University's Academic Diving Program and The Center for Professional Development, aquaCorps' international Tek Diving conferences, the SeaSpace Dive Show (Houston; http://www.seaspace.ycg.org), and the annual conventions of the National Association for Cave Diving (http://www.afn.org/~nacd/).
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