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July 31, 2006
SEA HUNTERS - ANNOUNCEMENT
Hello Divemedic2 and all of our Shipwreck Central Community,
The rumour you heard is absolutely true. After nearly six years of production the “Sea Hunters” Television series is complete. There are now 7 brand new shows airing on History Television, and National Geographic Canada. The new shows start airing on National Geographic International, the UK and Australia as well as on many other independent stations around the globe on August 05, 2006, but production for television is now complete.
Television executives are not shipwreck hunters. Their job is to sell products like soap or cars and other things by placing ads between their shows. We, at Shipwreck Central and Eco-Nova Productions, are Shipwreck Hunters and we’ve been planning for this event for over two years.
Our “Membership Site” is designed to provide “Shipwreck Central Members” the opportunity to join in the search for shipwrecks around the world while also providing many other exclusive privileges to any of our thousands of “Sea Hunters” fans around the world who decide to take a membership.
Each new membership comes with exclusive advantages:
1. 4-hour long, DVDs each year of membership, showing never before released, behind the scenes, footage of our shipwreck searches and many other shipwreck vignettes that have never been seen. These DVDs retail for $39.99 each so becoming a member starts you off saving money.
2. Members have exclusive access to our 100’s of hours of online “Shipwreck Central” Media in our member’s Library
3. Members have the chance to have a lunch with Clive Cussler, Mike Fletcher and John Davis
4. Members have the change to own brand new DOXA Sub 750 watches
5. Members will have the chance to join the Sea Hunters on a dive expedition
6. The first 1,000 members receive a “Vessel Research Team” “Charter Member” Cap
But most importantly, each member becomes a part of a truly interactive, global community that can, by working together on the World Wide Web, choose target shipwrecks and launch expeditions to find and film them. Once we reach 2,000 memberships we will launch our first expedition. Together with the Shipwreck Central team, Members will help choose the shipwreck targets. We will then deploy the “Sea Hunters” expedition team and the filming will begin. Each expedition, each wreck site will be filmed and broadcast directly to subscribers over the Internet. We will share all of the action and exciting underwater images with every member of our newly formed Vessel Research Team via our broadband connections. Each expedition will also provide a chance for one or more of our members to join the expedition team, but it won’t be a vacation. Each member going on an expedition will be provided a video camera and will be tasked with doing a daily video “Blog” that keeps every subscriber abreast of the action every day of the expedition.
You have all watched as “ShipwreckCentral.com” has grown and changed, continuously increasing the ability to send high quality video directly to your home computers, or if you’re set up, directly to your TV screen. You’ve seen the growth of our community discussions and you’ve watched as we’ve uploaded video clip after video clip from our dive expeditions directly to you via the Internet. All of this activity has had one goal: to develop the skills that are required to support a real, active, worldwide community of people who share a love of shipwrecks and maritime history and who understand and want to share the dramatic tales and historic stories that lay hidden in shipwreck sites around the world.
We have been planning for years for the end of the television series. The Internet, the Shipwreck Central Member’s site, and our ability to stream high quality video directly to each of you means that the series can and will continue and that we can add a whole new range of interactions that allows us, not only to continue searching for, and filming shipwrecks, but to do our work together, as a worldwide community. If you were a member today you could see the three, very interesting shipwreck sites that we are now considering for “Target number One” and you could suggest “Targets of your own” for the members to consider.
Our goal is really simple, we want to attract members who are truly committed to searching for and finding shipwrecks and who want to play an active role in the process. Our first shipwreck expedition starts as soon as we have our first 2,000 Vessel Research Team memberships (We project Fall of 2006 as the start date for our first Internet expedition and Broadcast). We will do our own research, finding, filming, and broadcasting of our own footage directly back to each of our members. We will operate our own, fully interactive, Shipwreck Search, subscription television service and we’ll broadcast direct to your home computer via the Internet. We’ve spent over 30 months planning, designing and getting ready and we know it can be done. We will become a worldwide shipwreck community, working to research, search for, find and film and preserve historic shipwrecks. As we move forward we will define new ways for television and our Internet linked computers to allow us to have genuine access and to make a positive impact in the real world. In doing so, Shipwreck Central’s Vessel Research Team members, will grow as a dynamic and positive force for the preservation of our common maritime history and we’re going to have a blast while we do it. So, Please take a moment to look over the membership information pages and then sign up and let’s go search for some history. It’s the World Wide Web, not television that is the new home for active minds and for people who want to make a real connection for real adventure in the real world…. We’ll never have a more rewarding adventure…. Join the “Vessel Research Team”. Become a “Shipwreck Central” member today at let’s continue the search.
All the Best,
John Davis
Sea Hunter, Producer, President
Eco-Nova Productions Limited
The Sea Hunters television series
Shipwreck Central Television
Posted by victoria at 12:09 PM
July 25, 2006
Let Them Eat cake
Last Friday, while the entire Shipwreck Central Team (minus a few happy vacationers) was trapped inside hiding from Post-Tropical Storm Beryl, we received a delicious homemade thank you from non-diver. We were overwhelmed by her generosity. Take a look at what she sent us.
Posted by victoria at 03:16 PM
July 21, 2006
Quiz 11
How many quizzes are there? Who knows? I do....
Posted by victoria at 11:31 AM
July 20, 2006
Summer Preview
Whether it's a heatwave or Tropical Storm Beryl keeping you inside this weekend, you'll have time to check out some great episodes of the Sea Hunters, airing on History Television
p.s. This is a different video player. It has three videos insted of one!
Posted by victoria at 04:04 PM | Comments (0)
July 11, 2006
Mike Fletcher Interview with questions from Non-Diver
Well it took a while but Mike finally got around to answering non-diver's early question on camera. This clip is about 2 minutes long to see the full interview check out the new Live Dive Video Line Up in the Members Section video player.
Not a member? Join now>>
Posted by victoria at 10:48 AM | Comments (0)
July 06, 2006
The Search For Bonhomme Richard
Check out the new video in the Feature Player on the Home Page. Want more video? Become a Member!
Posted by victoria at 10:47 AM | Comments (0)
July 05, 2006
USS Monitor
USS Monitor was the first ever ironclad warship of the United States Navy. She is most famous for her participation in the first-ever naval battle between two ironclad warships, the Battle of Hampton Roads on March 9, 1862 during the American Civil War, in which Monitor fought the ironclad CSS Virginia of the Confederate States Navy.
In previous decades, nearly all warships were made primarily of wood. In the decade before Hampton Roads, the design of ships and the nature of naval warfare changed dramatically with the introduction of armor.
On June 6, 2006 John Davis, James Delgado, and Clive Cussler were at the Monitor Center to see the replica christened.
For more information check out Monitor National Marine Sanctuary
and The USS Monitor Center | The Mariners' Museum.
Posted by victoria at 02:30 PM | Comments (0)
