One of the first Americans to take up scuba diving, Stan Waterman was responsible for many diving firsts, but he is best remembered for his work on the seminal movie Blue Water, White Death, the first cinematic filming of the great white shark.
HOW IT ALL BEGAN
At the age of 11 while on holiday in Florida, he was given a Japanese hand-made Ama face-mask, at a time before dive masks were being commercially manufactured, and became absorbed in the underwater world.
EVERYTHING ABOUT THE SEA
After his parents divorced, Waterman’s childhood summers were divided between his mother’s house in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, and his father’s summer home on a peninsula on Penobscot
