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Andrew Wight

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Profession: Underwater Explorer and Filmmaker
Episode: "Great White Shark, Crocodile, Chimps and Iceberg"
Encounter: A great white shark and a crocodile team up on Andrew.

Andrew Wight is an Australian underwater explorer and filmmaker. Andrew began his career in agricultural science and has worked in scientific research. He is a respected scuba and cave diving instructor, commercial helicopter pilot and farmer.

An "Australian Adventurer of the Year" medal winner (Australian Geographic), Andrew initiated and led the record-breaking Pannikin Plain Cave diving expedition into Australia's remote southwest in 1988. Andrew produced the award-winning documentary of this expedition, Nullarbor Dreaming.

Andrew has led expeditions to dive and explore some of the most remote and bizarre regions of the world, including Australia, Alaska, Mexico, Canada, Florida, Cuba, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Fiji, New Zealand, Guadeloupe Island, the Bahamas, the Dominican Republic, Belize, Dry Tortugas, Navassa Island, Costa Rica, Cocos Island, the Galapagos Islands, Lord Howe Island, the Titanic, the Bismarck and hydrothermal vents in the Atlantic and Pacific. (Read more ...)

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