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Produced and Directed by
Soames Summerhays
Executive Producers
Michael Hager & Don Steele
Co-Producer & Distributor
Don Steele
Associate Producer
Exequiel Ezcurra
Director of Cinematography, Terrestrial
James Neihouse
Director of Cinematography, Marine
Bob Cranston
Editor
Mark Fletcher
Original Music
Alan Reeves
Script Writer
Michael Parfit
Scientists Playing Self
Exequiel Ezcurra: Ecologist
Mercedes Guererro: Mammalogist, whales
Iliana Ortega: Marine & Terrestrial Naturalist
Enriqueta Velarde: Ornithologist
Boat Driver
Jose Francisco "Pachico" Mayoral
Whale watchers in boat
Nancy Steele
Natalie Davila
Kate Steele
Nikki Oliver
Michael Wescoat
Voice Overs
Coral MacFarland Thuet:
Enriqueta Velarde
Gabriela Flores:
Mercedes Guerrero
Maricela de la Parra:
Iliana Ortega
Jaime Orozco:
"Pachico" Mayoral
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Location Manager
Manuel Sánchez Álvarez
Camera Assistant
Michael Wescoat
Additional Cinematography
Gary Louzon
Diving Assistants
Mark Thurlow
Mark Conlin
Visual Effects
Sassoon Film Design, Santa Monica, CA
Visual Effects Supervisor
Tim Sassoon
Technical Director & Chief Animator
Johnathan Banta
Animator
Michael Jackson
Production Insurance
Truman Van Dyke
Varanus Biological Services
William Haas
Ingri Quon
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Orchestration
Richard Bronskill
Solo Artists
John Phillips: Flutes/Panpipes
Gregg Wright: Electric Guitars
Maya le Roux Obradovic: Classical Guitars
Alan Reeves: Midi Keyboards
Location Sound Recording
Michael Wescoat
Re-recording Skywalker Sound
Gary Rizzo
Sound Designer
Michael McDonough
Foley & Sound Sweetening
Ryan Purcell
Blindfold Studios
Gregg Brandalise
Orchestra
City of Prague Philharmonic
Conductor
Mario Klemens
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Studios
Smecky Praha Orchestrations
The Kaufman Agency
Jeff Kaufman
Narration Recording Supervisors
Barbara Corcega
Susanna Seaford
Production Assistants
Michael Wescoat
Bradley Steele
Josh Arden
Production Secretary
Maryann Beck
Assistant Editor
Justin Wade Bartlett
Set Production
James Melli
Still Photography
Enrique Hambleton
Aerial Cinematography:
Corporate Helicopters of San Diego
David Gibbs
Brian Humphrey
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Post Production Supervision
RPG Productions, Inc.
Rick Gordon
Post Production Supervisor
Alison Bush
Post Production Coordinator
Annie Toth
Post Production Assistant
Cathy Hair
Quality Control Supervisor
Edwin Escalante
Quality Control Assistants
Eden Torres
Brian Robbins
Negative Cutting
Tom Kugler
Tyler Camera Systems
Major Mount Technician
Scott Smith
Film Laboratory
CFI
Color Timer
Mike Sanders
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15-Perf 70mm Screening Facilities
Iwerks Entertainment
35mm Scanning
Digital Filmworks
65mm Scanning Recording & Titles
IMAGICA USA, INC.
Visual Effects Supervisor
Alan Markowitz
Digital Effects Supervisor
Kelly Moran
Digital Technical Director
Ben Matsunaga
Camera Operators
Miriam Yagi
Robin Tams
Lineup
Steve Mate
Scanning & Recording
Scott Crafford
Production Assistant
Mario Allen
Production Manager
Julie O'Neill
Head of Production
Jose Parra
Executive in Charge of Production
Christopher Reyna
Title Artwork
Title House Digital
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Semarnap Warden
Sergio Abulan Gonzáles
Mule Wranglers
Jesús Orfil Ramírez
José Jesús Zúñiga Arce
Carlos Antonio Arce Zúñiga
Francisco Arce Arce
Ramón Arce Arce
Production Accounting
Paul Champlin CPA
Debra Fecteau
Co-Associate Producer
Federico Chávez
Location & Script Consultants
Rodolfo Ogarrio
Norman Roberts
Enrique Hambleton
Research
Patricia Beller
San Diego Natural History Museum Educational Materials
Carol Radford
Ocean Oasis Website Development
Dale Clark
Linda West
Marketing & Public Relations
Delle Willett
Graphics
Erik Bolton
Shar Huston
Development
Ann Laddon
Vatei Ouy
Elizabeth Castillo
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Scientific Consultants
Enriqueta Velarde
Mercedes Guererro Ruíz
Iliana Ortega Bacmeister
Tanya Atwater
Joann Miriam Stock
Robert Delong
Jorge Urbán Ramírez
Jon Rebman
Phil Unitt
Saúl Álvarez-Borrego
Silvio Guido Marinone
Eric Mellink
Carlos López González
Lawrence Lovell
Advisory Group
Planetario Alfa, Monterrey
Miguel Ángel Delgado
Carnegie Science Center
Seddon Bennington
COSI, Columbus
Kathy Sullivan
Discovery Place Inc.
Freda Nicholson
Liberty Science Center
Emlyn Koster
McWane Center, Birmingham, Alabama
John Mackay
The Science Place, Dallas
William M. Sudduth
Valentine Associates, Inc
Valentine Kass
Denver Museum of Nature and Science
Raylene Decatur
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Story Development
Exequiel Ezcurra
Soames Summerhays
Michael Parfit
Michael Hager
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The Producers wish to thank the following for their support
Mexico's Secretary of the Environment, Natural Resources and Fisheries
Julia Carabias Lillo
Permits
SEMARNAP
INAH
Secretario de Turismo de Baja California
Juan B. Tintos Funcke
Baja California Film Commission
American Museum of Natural History
California Science Center
Centro Cultural Tijuana
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
Entergy IMAX Theater - Audubon Institute
Maritime Center at Norwalk, Inc.
Museum Of Science & Industry, Tampa
Pacific Science Center, Seattle
Papalote Museo Del Niño, Mexico City
Science World British Columbia, Vancouver
Recording Physics Inc.
James Lemke
William McHargue
Marine Transport
Tom Murphy
Ruben Coppel Luken
John & Joanne Barnes
Baer Davis
Terry & Debbie Janssen
Kuyima Servicios Ecoturísticos
Lindblad Expeditions
Sven Olof Lindblad
Pamela Fingleton
Scouting Flights
James Lemke
John Walton
Linden Blue
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Production Advisors
Clint Moore
Rodolfo Ogarrio
Charles Van Tassel
Kirsten Winter
Carol Summerhays
Lorenzo Rosenzweig
Martin Goebel
Liz Bleiberg
Alain Johannes
Natasha Shneider
George Lautner
Chantal Reeves
Patrice Charpentier
Michael Errington
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Magma
Vicky Baker
Webolution #9
Alex de Rafols
Robin Miller
Discover Baja Travel Club
Hugh Kramer
Baja Expeditions
Tim Means
Underwater Housing
Howard Hall Productions
Pilot
Thomas Brennan
Legal Services
Ira Epstein
John McNeece III
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Made Possible By
Almacenes Coppel, S.A.
Familia Luken Garza
Fundación Mexicana para Educación Ambiental, A.C.
Pulsar, S.A.
Walton Family Foundation
Produced For
CinemaCorp of the Californias
Gaston Luken Aguilar, Chairman
Michael Hager, President
Enrique Hambleton, Secretary
Steven McDonald
James Clements
Rodolfo Ogarrio
Dieter Holtz Wedde
Richard Benard, Chief Financial Officer
Produced and Distributed by
Summerhays Films, Inc.
San Diego, California
Film by Eastman Kodak
Filmed in IMAX®
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