Christine Regent West
Christine is an expedition diver, conservation photographer and videographer. She spends over six months per year in the field documenting and public speaking about places that are rarely seen and yet are rapidly changing due to the warming of the earth. Christine uses a variety of tools such as dropcams, ROVs and hydrophones to create images and stories that serve as voices for ecosystems that need immediate protection.
Christine grew up in the Pacific Northwest along the shores of Puget Sound. She has worked as a professional diver for 17 years. Her passion for marine biology has inspired her through over 5,000 scuba dives around the globe in polar, temperate and tropical conditions, as well as snorkeling and freediving in extraordinary habitats such as in riverbeds with spawning salmon, in recently deglaciated bays and lagoons filled with ice and glacial silt and in deep blue water with large marine animals including humpback whales, hammerhead sharks and pilot whales.