Nautilus Productions LLC is an American video production,

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, and photography company incorporated in

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in 1997. The principals are producer/director Rick Allen and photographer Cindy Burnham. Nautilus specializes in documentary production and underwater videography, and produced ''QAR DiveLive'', a live

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of underwater archaeology filmed at the wreck of the ''

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'' in 2000 and 2001.

History and output

Nautilus has produced several documentaries, including ''The Kill Zone'' for the National Geographic International Channel; ''Assault on America: The Battle for Torpedo Junction'' for the Canadian History Channel; and the ''Mystery Mardi Gras Shipwreck'' for

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; BOEM; and the

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. Above the water Nautilus spent seven years covering

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for

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and also worked with Bob Ballard, discoverer of the ''

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'', on a piece for CBS

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. Nautilus Productions is also the owner and licensor of stock footage from the ''

'' Shipwreck Project. Many documentaries created about the pirate Blackbeard and the ''Queen Anne's Revenge'' Shipwreck Project have incorporated project videographer Rick Allen's stock footage or video in their content. In 2000, Nautilus Productions co-produced with Bill Lovin of Marine Grafics, a week-long live internet broadcast known as ''QAR DiveLive'' from the Blackbeard wreck site and the ''Queen Anne's Revenge'' conservation lab. At the time, this was the first live video and audio broadcast from an underwater archaeological site to the

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. Students were able to watch the underwater archaeology in real time, virtually visit the lab and ask questions of the scientists exploring the

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. The twice-daily live distance learning programs reached students from as far away as Canada during the five days of broadcasting. In October 2001 Allen and Lovin again co-produced the ''QAR DiveLive'' 2001 webcasts with similar success. Other projects include videography on the ''

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'' and '' HMCS Canada'' ('' Queen of Nassau'') with the

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), the recovery of a

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era

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bomber from Lake Murray, SC for the

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series on the

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, and the '' SS Commodore'', made famous in author

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's short story "

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Works

*''Lights, Camera ... Shipwreck!?! Multimedia at Four Thousand Feet.'' Kimberly L. Faulk and Rick Allen, Historical Archaeology, Vol. 51, Issue 3, The Mardi Gras Shipwreck: The Archaeology of an Early Nineteenth-Century Wooden-Hulled Sailing Ship, September 2017, pp. 418–424.

References

External links

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Blackbeard's Queen Anne's Revenge Shipwreck Project Video

Mystery Mardi Gras Shipwreck Short

Bob Ballard: The Great Explorer

SS Commodore Wreck Site

Lake Murray's Mitchell

Podcast: Southern Museum of FlightPodcast: Blackbeard's Shipwreck And The HookPhotographer suing state over Blackbeard shipwreck footage
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