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Christoper
Swann
has
been
involved
in
professional
diving
for
many
years
as
a
diver,
photographer
and
writer.
He
first
came
in
contact
with
oilfield
diving
in
1965
when
he
made
a
film
on
the
first
commercial
lock-out
bell
Purisima
after
coming
to
California
from
his
native
England
to
take
a
course
at
the
Brooks
Institute
of
Photography
in
Santa
Barbara.
He
has
worked
for
the
French
subsea
company
Comex,
for
the
Undersea
Division
of
Brooks
Institute,
as
a
photographic
technician
in
the
North
Sea
oilfields
and
on
the
administrative
staff
of
a
small
independent
oil
company
in
Indonesia.
He
was
the
head
of
the
photographic
department
and
a
crew
member
with
the
Johnson
Sea
Link
I
submersible
at
the
Harbor
Branch
Foundation
in
Florida.
He
has
also
done
archaeological
work
in
the
Mediterranean
and
dived
on
wharf
inspection
and
maintenance
contracts.
In
1973
he
was
the
subject
in
two
1000
foot
chamber
dives
at
the
Duke
University
Medical
Center
in
North
Carolina.
His
articles
and
photographs
have
appeared
in
publications
in
the
United
States,
Britain,
Germany
and
France,
and
he
is
a
longtime
member
of
the
Historical
Diving
Society
USA.
Mr.
Swann
is
the
author
of
the
recently
published
book,
The
History
of
Oilfield
Diving:
An
Industrial
Adventure.
The
product
of
over
nineteen
years
of
research,
this
definitive
volume
has
been
hailed
as
the
most
comprehensive
and
monumental
work
ever
written
on
the
subject,
and
will
no
doubt
be
standard
reference
for
many
years
to
come.
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