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09/12/2005: "JACK McKENNEY .......meets Jocelyn (from Captain C. Weed)"
Canadian underwater cinematographer Jack McKenney was at the OZ UW Expo but he had to wait until in Australia to meet Jocelyn Edwards in Sydney.
Jocelyn, an underwater model based in Queensland has many fans. She appears in Australian Seafari and is best remembered for her nude underwater bubble swim. Rated (G).
The diving world lost a great and popular talent when Jack suddenly passed away, his son John now heads an underwater film production company in the USA.
McKenney had his work published in many books and magazines including National Geographic. While Editor of Skin Diver Magazine, he traveled the world to report on dive conditions and activities. A great lifestyle. He went to Australia for three days to write about Heron Island diving courtesy of Qantas and that resort.
Jack wrote and photographed Dive To Adventure, a small and informative soft cover book.
McKenney produced over 30 underwater documentaries, five being for the Diving Equipment Manufacturers Association film shows.
McKenney also worked as a diving stuntman and underwater cameraman for Hollywood movies: Sharks Treasure (filmed at Marion Reef from aboard Wally Muller's chart boat Coralita) and The Deep - also from aboard the same vessel working Australia's Coral Sea.
McKenney made 50 dives on the deepwater shipwreck Andrea Doria and was the lead UW photographer for (the late) Peter Gimbel’s TV special featuring a safe being salvaged from the former Italian luxury liner.
