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Ralph White enjoys a very distinguished professional career as an award winning cinematographer, a video cameraman and editor with over thirty years of production experience and hundreds of motion picture and television credits. In 1985, White documented the expedition that found the Wreck of the RMS Titanic, and in 1987, and 2000, he co-directed the salvage operation and photography during the recovery of over 5000 artifacts from the Titanics debris field. White was the submersible cameraman for the 1991 IMX feature film Titanica, and in 1995-1996, he was the expedition leader and second unit cameraman for James Camerons Academy Award winning feature film, Titanic. White has made 33 dives to the 12,000fsw deep wreck of the Titanic and has qualified as a copilot of the French Nautile and Russian Mir submersibles.
For more than 25v years, White has served as a contract cameraman for the National Geographic Society, where he helped pioneer the development of advanced remote cameras, 3-D video, HDTV, and deep ocean imaging and lighting systems. He has been to both poles and has photographed a huge array of marine creatures, including the largest ever seen flesh-eating shark, a 30 somniosus pacificus. His film, The Great Whales won the coveted "Emmy" Award for Best Documentary. Whites cinematography has also won the Grenoble Film Festival Gold Medal, the Golden Eagle, the Cindy and the Golden Halo awards.
Ralph White is a highly qualified helicopter and astrovision aerial specialist and a former Member of the United States parachute Team. He co-invented the Bell Camera Helmet that he used in the filming of free fall skydiving sequences for Ivan Tors Ripcord Series. White served in the US Marine Corps as a Force Reconnaissance Team Leader and he is a highly decorated reserve Forces Captain who commanded the elite and award winning Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department Photographic Unit.
White has been awarded the titles of Knight, Order of Saint Lazarus and Knight, Order of Constantine, for his filming and conservation accomplishments. His extensive experience is well recognized by his peers: he is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, a Fellow and Recipient of the Lowell Thomas Award for Life Achievement from the Explorers Club, a NOGI Fellow, and he is Past President of AUAS and of The Adventurers Club.
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