Acknowlegements
Running Channel Islands Dive Adventures is a labor of love and the website is no different. Without the help of some others it would be very difficult to have the content, information and overall look that it does which CIDA hopes you enjoy.
This page is for Channel Islands Dive Adventures (and Ken Kollwitz) to say THANK YOU to those that have contributed and helped CIDA out. Without these individuals CIDA would not be able to continue to grow!
Pat Crane is an excellent photographer, diver and friend who owns Channel Islands underwater Imaging. Pat has been on many CIDA trips and has supplied some awesome pictures for the CIDA website that CIDA has used to promote many trips, mainly the coastal trips. Please visit his website Channel Islands Underwater Imaging.
John Van Der Kamp is another excellent diver and friend who liked to take pictures with his point and shoot camera. John has some of the best pictures I have seen from a point and shoot and his pictures have been used by CIDA to promote many trips . He has been taking a surface interval for a while and I hope to have him out diving very soon.
Chris Williams is a friend I met in a dive class I helped out with along with her family and it turned out she is also a very good artist who likes to draw. Chris is responsible for getting the vision I had for the logo to an actual drawing that could be used for another friend who did the graphics. Thank you Chris!
Rob Sankovich is another friend I meet through the Channel Islands Dive club who loves to explore, camp and dive Jade Cove as much as I do. Rob is a graphic designer and took Chris’s drawing and turned it into the current Channel Islands Dive Adventures logo. Good job Rob!
The California Wreck Divers have been very helpful with the use of some pictures and information used on the CIDA website for some of the wrecks CIDA visits. I have know many of the CWD memebers for many years running trips to places like the Honda wrecks off Vandenberg and now I have finally joined the CWD. It was about time!
Kevin & Liz Sullivan make an excellent photo/video team and have contributed their combined talents to CIDA. They put together and excellent video on the CIDA Kopco Star expedition on September 17, 2010 and I know there will be others. It is always fun to have them both out diving on CIDA trips
Jonathan Hanks is a good friend, excellent diver and explorer like myself (except he has more time for it) who loves wreck diving. Jonathan is responsible for all the cool multi-beam, side scan and hybrid images for some of the wrecks on this website. Jonathan has also been instrumental in finding other very exciting dive sites including some local wrecks.
Leslie Butler Krumtinger is the niece of John C. Butler and has supplied CIDA family photos and a bio about her Uncle and how the US Navy Battleship “John C. Butler” was named after him. For his heroism, Butler and six other members of his squadron were awarded the Navy Cross, second only to the Medal of Honor for bravery. The John C. Butler now rests at 80′ deep off Northwest Harbor, San Clemente Island.
Joseph C. Dovala is a photojournalist that has had many of his articles and pictures in Dive Training, Dive Alert, California Diver, Scuba Diver and many other magazines and publications. CIDA would like to thank Joe for the use of some of his many excellent photos on the CIDA website and newsletters.
