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ExploreUnderwater.com and PADI Master Instructor Monte Lee Thornton offers the courses, a Travel and Underwater Photographer/Video Photographer and an international Web Designer/Programmer.

Over the past 25 years of Scuba diving Monte Thornton has published photos in textbooks, magazines, newspapers and Internet publications. His Photography spans from underwater to Middle East archaeological compositions. Underwater video of Cayman Islands includes scuba diving sights of marine life. In Belize he has recorded remote islands' wildlife, marine life and rainforest to promote adventure travel.

In 1996 he worked as a technician/camera operator for 14 special effect cameras underwater at the aquatic center for the Atlanta Olympic Broadcasting. In 1998 he upd daily news online for a CBS affiliate in Houston and maintained online broadcast imagery for daily news.

Other assignments have been photojournalism for special events like the Westheimer Festival and maintaining the web content and design.

He is currently maintaining 120 corporate web sites of content, graphics and is a photographer of companies' inventory. Monte Thornton is a marine naturalist who started out photographing Humpback whales and feeding sharks.

Currently heteaches 27 different PADI certification courses and leads group tours to Belize, Roatan, Red Sea, Bali, Austrilia and Cayman Islands. He has taken 16 environmental research photography trips to Cayman. The RSL in Cayman is his deepest dive - 880 ft to the wreck of the Kirk Pride.

Monte Thornton undertakes all diving projects including under water broadcast work, archaeology, and multimedia development.

One of his specialties is to introduce divers to the diving wonders and to explore uncharted remote reefs. He provides adventure in visits to remote reefs, mangroves, rain forest, ancient ruins, exploring and photographing remote areas.

Explore UnderWater is available for photo/video assignments to gather imagery of locations around the world. Above and below the waters for assignments of camera operator for film and safety diver.




This Picture Taken in Hawaii in 1979, Cosair Airplane used in the filming of TORA TORA TORA!. Depth 95ft, Ikelite 110 Instamatic, 100 ISO Print film. Photo By Monte Thornton July 1st, 1979. Started underwater photography in 1978 with Nikonous III, an Ikelite housed system for a Minolta XG1 and the Instamatics for selling photos to students. Did my first shark photos in July 1978 in an area around Kinna Point. Every fifth day we dove the location we encountered sharks of all sizes.




  • OTHER INFORMATION :
  • Serving a fourth term as Vice-President Director for A Municipal Utility District, Maintain ground water and wastewater services for a taxing district under the Laws of the great State of TEXAS. I took seven years to obtained a contract with the City of Houston for an interconnect to supply the district with surface supplied water, and meet our subsidence mans for slowing the subsidence in the area which has lost four feet in the last 20 years. Involved with developers with one project of 156 homes almost built out and adding another 80 acres which will add another 150+ homes to the tax base, lowering the overall taxes which hase take major effort over the last eight years of aggressive annexation.

    He has taken 19 trips to Cayman photographing selected sponges to measure growth and change from environmental factors. The RSL in Cayman is the deepest I have been 880 ft to the wreck of the Kirk Pride.




    This Photo: This Picture Taken in Cayman in 1991. Depth 55ft, Nikonous IV with 15mm Lens 64 KodachromeISO Print film.

    He has been a seminar speaker for PADI at SeaSpace in 1992 & 1994. Topics have been on conservation issues of Seven & one-half fantom reef which resulted in enviornmental legislation attach to certain state bills which resulted in the prevention of dredging up of the Laguna Madre at the Port Mansfield area. American General Corporation was planning a 1.3 billion dollar tourism complex on the north end of South Padre Island. I have also gave a seminar on understanding of coral reef communities. In the last four years, he has certified more than 100 divers each year from the Houston area. Now about 1650 certifications issued in Houston.

    He's been working on locations of shipwrecks and condition of the wrecks which are in the Galvaston Ship Channel and which ones will be affected by dredging of the ship channel. In October 1995 worked with archeologist near Redfish Bar using a ROV with side scan sonar trying to identify important wrecks in the corridor of the proposed wider and deeper ship channel. This was inportant due to about 6 major archelogical sites that will be damaged or destroyed or buried.


     







    This Photo Taken on the ship wreck above two years later. Note all the specks are its babies...

    Monte's primary search is the shipwreck from 1528 of Casa DeVaca which sank in a storm in the Galvaston area. Attached is a study map of shoreline changesand a study map of 96 unknown wrecks at the entrance to Galvaston Ship Channel.

    Monte' is also working on making a video on the Federal shipwreck of the USS Constitution which is sank 2 mile off shore in 1864.

    He is also working to get his photographs published in scuba publications. Recently, photography of the Texas underwater gulf rigs were published in several text books for Elementry Science Education. He also worked with the Olympics and maintaining the underwater camera's for the Aquatic Venues and is now working towards motion pictures for underwater.



    This Photo Taken in Sharm El Sheick at the Temple Marine park in May 1998, Depth 25 feet and take with ambient light with a Nikonus IV and 15 mm lens due to my strobe flodding.

    The Rest of his time is devoted to maintaining twenty-two web sites which contain 3700 pages, designing new web sites, Use to be the webmaster for a local CBS Affiliate TV Station, General Editor for an Online Magazine in the United Kingdom. I currently have a T1 where I have clients and my servers routed into the internet. E-Commerce designs result in most of my time online and programing 4 new clients a week.



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