Rick Allen

RICK ALLEN, co-founder NAUTILUS PRODUCTIONS, broadcast video producer and videographer has been diving the oceans of the world and shooting video since 1983. As a video producer, director and videographer his work has appeared on ABC, A&E, BBC, CBS, Discovery, The Learning Channel, 48 Hours, ESPN, Lifetime, Turner and more. He has followed SWAT teams through the door on drug busts, traveled from Cuba to Kazakhstan with the 82nd Airborne, weathered live broadcasts during hurricanes and gone nose to nose with 14 foot  Great White sharks during underwater expeditions. After 12 years in broadcast television Allen opened his own video production company in 1997 focused on documentary production and providing freelance videography and underwater video services to broadcast clients. Allen is an avid wreck diver and shark lover who can be found most weekends diving the Graveyard of the Atlantic.

In 2008 Allen completed the Mystery Mardi Gras Shipwreck documentary for Texas A&M University and the Minerals Management Service. The one hour HD documentary chronicles the mysterious sinking of a 19th century shipwreck, the deepest underwater archaeological project ever attempted in the Gulf of Mexico and the month long expedition mounted to explore, recover and conserve artifacts from the wreck site.

Nautilus Productions is proud to announce that the Mystery Mardi Gras Shipwreck has won a 2009 Bronze Telly award in the documentary category. The Telly Awards honor the very best local, regional, and cable television commercials and programs, as well as the finest video and film productions, and work created for the Web. The 29th Annual Telly Awards received over 14,000 entries from all 50 states and 5 continents.

Since 1998, Allen has been the project videographer on the Queen Anne’s Revenge Shipwreck Project. His duties include the documentation of the archaeological survey and recovery of artifacts from the wreck site. In the fall of 2000 Allen co produced with Bill Lovin of Marine Grafics a groundbreaking, weeklong live internet broadcast known as QAR LiveDive from the QAR. For the first time ever, live video and audio was broadcast from an underwater archaeological site to the World Wide Web. The twice-daily live distance learning programs reached an estimated 1600 students from as far away as Canada during the five days of broadcasting. October of 2001 Allen and Lovin again co produced DiveLive 2001. This time the interactive webcasts from the seafloor and conservation laboratories of the Queen Anne's Revenge Shipwreck Project reached over 3600 students from fifteen states and 2 countries during the five days of broadcast.

Executive Producer/Director 

• Mystery Mardi Gras Shipwreck – In Production (HD)
• The Kill Zone, National Geographic International
• Assault on America - The Battle for Torpedo Junction, Canadian History Channel

Director, Coproducer, Videographer

• Sand Tigers: Sentinels of the Deep, NC Public Television

DP/Videographer

• In Search of Blackbeard's Treasure, BBC/Discovery
• Modern Marvels - Pirate Tech, History Channel
• Mega Movers, History Channel
• Stunt Junkies, CBS/Discovery
• Tactical to Practical, History Channel
• Battle Stations: Drop Zone, History Channel
• Mysteries of Cold Water Survival, Operation Homecoming, TLC
• Hospital: The Series, Mission to the Monitor, Discovery
• Blackbeard's Treasure, UNC-TV
• Behind Closed Doors w/Joan Lunden, A&E  
• The Big Click, UNC-TV
• NASCAR, Corporate, VNR , Office Depot
• People of the Neuse, WRAL-TV
• The Bob Waters Story, WLOS-TV
• The Graveyard of the Atlantic, VMG Marketing
• Disco's Top 10, & The Ultimate Pop Stars, CH4, UK
• The Barbara Staeger Story /American Justice, A&E & TLC
• The Things We Do For Love, Lifetime.
• Liars & Legends, Turner South
• Off The Menu, Turner South
• Various, CBS/History Channel
• National Geographic Today, National Geographic Channel
• 10 Deadliest Sharks, Shark Attack Survivors, BBC/Discovery - Shark Week
• Time Machine - Green Berets, Mega Movers, History Channel         
• The Hunt for Osama & Sadam, CBS/History Channel
• Heavy Metal, History Channel
• US Open-Pinehurst ‘99, ‘05, Various, The Golf Channel
• Forensic Science, A&E
• Corporate , American Red Cross
• Ripleys Believe It Or Not, TNT
• 60 Minutes, 48 Hours, CBS
• Various, CNBC
• Various, BBC News
• Lonely Planet Treks, Travel Channel
• Regenesis Video, Environmental Protection Agency
• Awards Video, VH1
• Fox NewsChannel, Fox
• Mystery Hunters, Discovery Kids
• Hooters Cup Stock Car Racing, SportsSouth
• Stock Car Racing, NASCAR
• Building Character, HGTV
• Ambush Makeover, Banyan/FOX
• Marine Courtmartial, APTN
• Shipwrecks, WCTI TV-12/NBC
• Surviving in a sinking car, WTVD TV-11/ABC
• NewsNight with Lou Dobbs, CNN
• Blackbeard Project, WLFL TV-22/WB
• African-American Farmers, Reuters
• Animal Rescues, Extra
• Cod, Primitive Features
• 21st Century Medicine - Discovery
• JAG, Bellisario Productions/CBS
• Dream 18, Leisure Channel
• Beach Ambush, Outdoor Life Network
• Donnie & Marie, Syndication
• Oprah, Harpo Productions/Syndication
• Goin' Deep, Fox Sports
• Beyond the Glory, FoxSportsNet
• NFL Football, ESPN
• Unsolved Mysteries, Lifetime
• Hollywood True Stories, E!
• Blackbeard Project, CNN, HD News
• Forensic Files, Court TV
• Various, Fox News Channel
• World News Tonight, ABC
• Monsters of the Sea/History's Mysteries, A&E
• Guinness World Records, A&E
• Amazing Vacation Homes, Travel Channel
• Nascar Home Makeover, DiTech

Other

• Shark Breach, Pepsico/Diet Mountain Dew Commercial
• Dirty Jobs, Discovery
• Archaeological Surveys, NOAA/NURC
• Waterways #216, Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary
• US Army Weapons Testing, General Dynamics
• BioBulletin, American Museum of Natural History 
• Guardians of the Wreck, Sea World Ohio
• Coke Card Promotion, Coca-Cola
• Corporate, Bank of America
• Corporate, Wachovia
• Corporate, Home Depot
• Corporate, Office Depot
• VNR's, Cattleman's Association     
• Corporate, LC Industries
• Estuary Live Video/Neuse River, NCDENR
• Various, Sprint
• Firefighting Training Video, FETN
• Tom Joyner Show
• Olympic Athletes, UPS
• Promotional Video, Explornet
• Various, World Business Review
• Various, United Methodist Church
• UNC Basketball & Putt Putt Golf, Robert Warren Productions
• Special Forces Scuba Teams, USASOC
• Various, Visual Eyes
• Blackbeard QAR Project, NC Underwater Archaeology Branch
• Black Warrior Project, NC Underwater Archaeology Branch
• Corporate, Southeastern Trucking
• Corporate, Aetna Insurance
• Corporate, Bayer
• Conference, Cisco Systems
• Conference, AT&T
• Gospel Challenge, SRB Productions
• Environmental Impact Survey, US Marine Corps
• Shipwreck Video, NC Aquarium-Pine Knoll Shores
• Corporate Video, Proctor & Gamble
• Terry Labonte, Kelloggs
• Sales Video, Coleman/Fleetwood
• Hurricane Floyd Disaster, State of NC
• Hurricane Housing Buyout Program, State of NC
• IMPACT Program, FEMA
• VNR's, Cattlemen's Association
• Corporate, IBM
• Corporate, Cisco Systems
• Corporate, Cape Fear Valley Health Systems
• Corporate, Mysis Healthcare Systems
• Corporate, GlaxoSmithKline
• NC Aquarium-Pine Knoll Shores, Shipwreck Exhibit
• Dialog Sales Conference, Flying Colors
• US Marine Corps, Daniel Productions
• Triatholon, AARP
• Race for the Cure, RE/MAX
• Webcasts, Estuary Live, NC Dept. of Cultural Resources, League of Women
• Voters

Sound

• The Last Politician, PBS
• Faith Hill, ABC
• Various, Virtual Image
• Battlefield Diaries, Discovery Military Channel
• Lioness, Rm. 11 Productions

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Awards

• Graduate NPPA Oklahoma Television Workshop.
• First Place Region 6 RTNDA awards - ‘97, “Graveyard of the Atlantic.”
• MCA-I Award of Merit ‘00, Documentary - “Assault on America - The Battle for Torpedo Junction.”
• NETA-First Place ‘00, WUNC-TV, Documentary - Science & Nature, “Blackbeard’s Treasure.”

Clients

ABC, APTN, BBC, CBS, CNN, Coca-Cola, Coleman/Fleetwood, Discovery, E! Entertainment TV, ESPN, FOX, General Dynamics, Harpo, History Channel, 48 Hours, TLC, Travel Channel, Origin Medsystems, Real TV, SportSouth, Sprint, Turner, Reuters, NOAA, North Carolina Public TV, Visual Eyes, N.C. Underwater Archaeology Unit and more.

 

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RICK ALLEN 1000+ dives

Over two thirds of my logged dives are North Carolina wreck dives involving depths to 200’, wreck penetration and  long, multi-stage decompressions as well as extensive blackwater and archaeological documentation experience. The rest are warm water reef dives in the Caribbean and Pacific or cold California diving. Nautilus has an extensive underwater stock footage video library of shipwrecks and marine life.

NAUI	Advanced & Open Water
NACD	Cavern
IANTD	Nitrox & Advanced Nitrox
IANTD	Deep Air
PADI	First Aid & CPR
DAN	Oxygen Administration
AAUS	Scientific Diver

Clients

ABC, Aggressor Fleet, American Museum of Natural History, Astropolitan Pictures, BBC, Discovery Channel, The learning Channel, Carolina Outdoors, CNN, Marine Grafics, Marine Mammal Fund, National Geographic, Olympus Diving, WCTI TV, WRAL TV,  UNC TV, VMG, ZDF German TV, Travel Channel and more.

Speaker

Minerals Management Service ITS Conference ‘09 New Orleans, La, Our World Underwater ‘98, ‘99, ‘03, ‘08 Chicago, Ill., Boston Sea Rovers ‘99 & ‘04, Boston, Mass., Beneath the Seas ‘00, ‘04 & ‘08 SEAS Expo ‘00, ‘02 & ‘05 RDU, NC. AAUS Conference ‘02 Greenville, NC.

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