Profession: Wildlife Cinematographer, Producer and Director
Episode: "African Elephant, Polar Bear and Buffalo"
Encounter: Adam has a close encounter with a polar bear.

Marine naturalist, Arctic scuba diver, and award-winning wildlife cinematographer, producer and director Adam Ravetch has been involved in a myriad of projects that have taken him to the far corners of the earth. Dedicated to creative filmmaking, he strives to bring to the screen the unforgettable details of animals' lives and their relationship to humankind.

In his pursuit of the ultimate photographic challenge, Ravetch has become one of a handful of filmmakers to shoot beneath the Arctic ice cap. Even more unusual is his perseverance in the North, with 15 years of experience working in the brutal, polar environment. The unforgiving Arctic has rewarded Ravetch with some of his most fantastic moments: his months-long stakeout to film polar bears predating on walrus; his portrait of the revival of the Bowhead whale population; his underwater encounters with pods of Narwhal and Beluga whales; a witness to the birth of seals and walrus — many first-time-photographed events. (Read more...)

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