Marty Snyderman is an award-winning and highly published underwater photographer and cinematographer. He is also an author and teacher of underwater photography. Marty's cinematography has been used by National Geographic, the PBS series Nature, BBC, Discovery Channel, Audubon, Howard Hall Productions, Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom, Hardy Jones Productions, ESPN, and many other networks and entities around the world. We talk about the kelp forests of California, black-water diving in Yap, sharks, ecology, becoming a professional underwater photographer, creativity, animal behavior, respect for nature, chasing a dream, the pursuit of excellence, and much more.