Cameron Kirkconnell Photo by Craig Clasen
Since the first printing of Blue Water Hunting and Freediving in 1995, the sport of blue water hunting has grown in popularity across the globe. Cameron Kirkconnell epitomizes the diver’ s quest for blue water hunting. Cameron’ s profession as a merchant marine captain has flung him to the far corners of the world, where he has taken every opportunity to hunt blue water fish and expand his knowledge of the sport. His hunting skills, his records and his prolific writings make him a valuable contributor to this third edition. Cameron helped with the chapters on hunting technique and provided images from his blue water collection. Follow Cameron at www. CameronKirkconnell. com
In The Zone productions was founded by Richard Leonard in 2004. The company has been pivotal in pioneering and the creation of high quality films and on-line media within the spearfishing genre. Richard is passionate about being involved with the global spearfishing community and keeps up to date with the latest news and views of the spearfishing world. He has specialized in producing, directing and filming spearfishing media for over 10 years now and would rather do nothing else but tackle one of the greatest media challenges out there today. Richard’ s skills set lends towards directing and producing spearfishing media. This type of production comes with many challenges, the crew are often placed in extreme and hostile environments. As the director Richard has to take many factors into account while filming out in the deep. Common obstacles comprise of open ocean conditions, waves, swell, wind, all underwater cinematography done under breath hold conditions and characters that are completely unfamiliar with filming and production. Richard’ s film making career includes – Producer, Director, Presenter, Cameraman and Scriptwriter of thus far 4 Spearfishing adventure films: GOOD TIMES, ONE FISH, ONE FISH GOING EAST and ONE FISH LEGENDS
Richard“ Snoek” Leonard