2024 Legends of the Sea

For over forty years, Howard and Michele Hall have specialized in underwater natural-history film production for television and IMAX/Giant Screen. They have produced numerous award-winning television films for PBS Nature, National Geographic, the BBC, Terra Mater, and other broadcasters, and are the recipients of seven Emmy Awards. Award-winning IMAX films produced and/or directed by Howard and Michele include Into the Deep, Island of the Sharks, Deep Sea 3D, Under the Sea 3D, and, most recently, Secrets of the Sea 3D, which is opening in IMAX theaters in 2023 and 2024. Howard and Michele have participated in many other underwater IMAX productions in various capacities, including MacGillivray Freeman Films’ IMAX films Coral Reef Adventure, Journey to the South Pacific, Journey into Amazing Caves, and Humpback Whales. In 2011 Howard and Michele were inducted into the International Scuba Diving Hall of Fame. They were honorees of the 2016 Hans Hass Fifty Fathoms Award, and both are recipients of the Academy of Underwater Arts and Sciences’ NOGI Award. Howard is a member of the Directors Guild and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Michele is a member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and the Women Divers Hall of Fame. They both have graced Beneath the Sea’s honor rolls before, first in 2011 as Divers of the Year for Arts, then again in 2017 claiming the Pioneer award. This year we are proud to honor them again with Beneath the Sea’s Legend of the Sea award.