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Scott Cassell

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Profession: Wildlife Filmmaker, Underwater Explorer
Episode: "Leopard Seal, Lions and Humboldt Squid"
Encounter: Scott tangles with an aggressive Humboldt squid.

Diving since 1977, Scott has accumulated 12,000 hours underwater as a mixed-gas commercial diver, 20-plus-year veteran of rebreather technologies, U.S. Coast Guard-qualified submersible pilot, counterterrorism diver, U.S. Navy-qualified diving supervisor and diving medical technician.

While instructing at the College of Oceaneering, he taught advanced diving medicine, commercial diving and hyperbaric medicine.

As an explorer and filmmaker, he has worked with MTV, Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, History Channel, Disney, BBC and others.

Scott is a world record holder for "Longest Dive Distance Traveled" (52-mile nonstop saturation dive) and a professional trapeze artist "catcher" and aerial/strap cube performer.

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