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49th Annual NOGI Awards Gala
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October 23, 2008
Riviera Hotel
Las Vegas, Nevada
Black Tie optional
Open bar and Hors D'oeuvres service begins at 6:00 pm
(Open Bar hosted by Alese & Mort Pechter)
Dinner follows
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This year's awardees are:
Arts: Wes Skiles, the award winning underwater filmmaker and cave diving
expert extraordinaire.
Science: Dr. Charles Birkeland, the very well respected University of
Hawaii researcher and reef ecologist.
Sports and Education: Carl Roessler, a founding developer of the dive
travel industry and underwater photographer and writer.
Distinguished Service: Dee Scarr, whose series Touch the Sea has
enhanced the understanding between humans and marine animals since 1982.
In conjunction with the NOGI Awards Ceremony, the Wyland ICON Awards will be presented to this years recipients:
 Sir Peter Blake
Ralph White
James Watt
Jacques Mayol |
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For more information visit: The Wyland Foundation web site.
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 Hannes Keller |
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The AUAS is proud to bring to The NOGI Awards Gala the world renowned philosopher, mathematician and visionary, Hannes Keller. Contributions made by Hannes Keller to diving include development of decompression algorithms for use in dive computers. In 1961, he set the current deep diving record of 710 feet. The authoritative book by Christopher Swann, "The History of Oilfield Diving", chronicles some of the accomplishments of Hannes Keller (click for excerpt *). He is also an artist, concert pianist and a
lot of fun! He has hinted that there will be a little surprise for all
who attend.
Listen to Hannes Keller playing Mozart
* Excerpt is courtesy of, and the copyright of oceanautpress.com |
This Years Sponsors
The AUAS Artist in Residence, Wyland will perform a painting to be
auctioned at the Gala, the proceeds to benefit the Academy of Underwater
Arts and Sciences and the Wyland Foundation.
AUAS Ambassador in Residence, Zale Parry will present this year’s
scholarship recipient.
The NOGI is the oldest and most prestigious award in the diving
industry. It is administered by the Academy of Underwater Arts and
Sciences, a 501©3, non-profit corporation. All contributions are tax
deductible.
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