About Chuck:
Chuck Davis has worked as a director of photography and/or camera operator on several IMAX and IMAX-DOME feature documentaries such as RING OF FIRE (undersea lava scenes), SEARCH FOR THE GREAT SHARKS, the Academy Award-nominated ALASKA: SPIRIT OF THE WILD, WHALES, THE GREATEST PLACES, and AMAZING JOURNEYS. He also filmed underwater footage in Monterey Bay for the Academy Award nominated IMAX film, THE LIVING SEA.

Davis worked as an underwater camera operator on the Warner Brothers feature film, SPHERE and his production experience includes work on C.L.I.O. Award-winning commercials and CINE Golden Eagle Award-winning documentaries. He is currently in production on a film for the Smithsonian's new dome theater at the National Museum for the American Indian which is under construction in Washington, DC..

Davis holds degrees in fisheries biology from the University of Massachusetts/Amherst and in filmmaking from the Brooks Institute of Photographic Art and Science in Santa Barbara, California.

He has over 30 years active diving experience in worldwide locations. The main thrust in Davis' personal work is helping to stimulate marine environmental awareness and conservation via the use of marine and underwater imagery.