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Carl
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Roessler
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Carl
Roessler
never
knew
he
would
work
in
international
dive
travel
until
fifteen
years
after
he
began
his
business
career.
He
worked
for
General
Electric
and
IBM
after
graduating
from
Yale
University.
His
work
at
IBM
led
to
his
appointment
as
Director
of
Computation
at
Yale
University.
During
his
tenure
at
the
university,
Carl
led
a
design
team
to
develop
a
pioneering
management
information
system. |
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After
five
years
in
his
Yale
post,
Carl
realized
a
long-held
dream
and
moved
with
his
wife
and
children
to
the
Caribbean
islands
of
Curacao
and
Bonaire.
During
1969-72,
Carl
hosted
dive
groups
organized
by
See
&
Sea
Travel,
Inc.
of
San
Francisco.
Then,
in
1972,
Carl
was
approached
by
Dewey
Bergman
of
See
&
Sea
Travel
to
forsake
the
Caribbean
and
travel
the
world.
For
the
next
twenty-five
years,
Carl
organized
permanent
diving
programs
in
over
thirty
of
what
are
now
the
world’s
best-loved
dive
destinations.
For
twenty
of
those
twenty-five
years,
Carl
was
president
of
See
&
Sea,
the
world’s
first
and
largest
travel
agency
exclusively
devoted
to
dive
travel. |
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In
his
long
career
in
dive
travel,
Carl
was
the
leading
popularizer
of
expeditionary
live-aboard
dive
cruisers
that
offered
good
food
and
comfort
while
diving
reefs
far
distant
from
hotels,
airports
and
population
centers.
Carl’s
favorite
dive
sites
were
often
hundreds
of
miles
from
any
shore
base. |
Beginning
in
1967,
Carl
began
taking
underwater
pictures
during
his
overseas
dive
trips.
Gradually
he
amassed
an
enormous
collection
of
over
300,000
images
from
all
around
the
tropical
world.
Hundreds
of
his
photos
and
articles
have
appeared
in
major
magazines
and
textbooks
in
the
U.S.
and
Europe.
His
specialties
are
fish
portraits,
model
photos
and
especially
sharks
feeding. |
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Carl’s
book
The
Underwater
Wilderness
was
a
best-seller,
and
an
alternate
selection
of
the
Book-of
the-Month
Club
in
1977.
In
1984,
three
of
Carl’s
books
(The
Undersea
Predators,
Mastering
Underwater
Photography,
and
Divers
Guide
to
the
Cayman
Islands)
were
published
to
rave
reviews.
In
1986
Carl’s
book,
Coral
Kingdoms,
published
by
Harry
N.
Abrams
Co.
of
New
York,
was
his
second
Book-of-the
Month
Club
selection.
1991
saw
the
publication
of
Carl’s
Diver’s
Guide
to
Australia,
and
1992’s
book
was
Great
Reefs
of
the
World.
Throughout
the
years,
Carl
has
also
run
an
active
business
selling
his
images
to
magazines,
book
publishers
and
stock
photo
companies. |
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Carl’s
adventures
over
the
past
three
decades
have
brought
the
very
first
American
divers
or
live-aboard
programs
to
such
well-known
places
as
the
Cayman
Islands,
The
Galapagos,
Belize,
Australia’s
Coral
Sea,
Fiji,
Jordan,
the
Sudan,
Eritrea,
the
Maldives,
Papua
New
Guinea,
New
Caledonia,
Vanuatu,
Palau,
Truk
Lagoon
and
Malpelo,
as
well
as
the
great
white
shark
and
whale
shark
diving
adventures
that
are
now
so
popular.
Many
divers
have
experienced
their
very
first
shark
encounters
on
live-aboard
programs
Carl
offered
through
See
&
Sea.
After
twenty-five
years
running
See
&
Sea
Travel,
Inc.,
Carl
now
acts
as
an
adviser
to
divers
looking
for
great
diving
expeditions
on
well-run
live-aboard
cruisers
around
the
world. |
 Carl
serves
on
the
Board
of
Directors
of
the
Historical
Diving
Society
and
on
January
25,
2007
was
elected
to
the
International
Scuba
Diving
Hall
of
Fame.
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