Exploring the hidden secrets of the world's oceans with Paul Rose
Friday 21 November 2008 at 18.30

Pre-Explore Lecture (free for Explore delegates; £10 standard price otherwise)

Hear Paul Rose, Richard Bull and Matt Dyas - the team behind BBC Two's flagship series Oceans - share their discoveries beneath the world's great oceans from the Arctic to the Tropics.

  Paul Rose
An expert in polar exploration, diving and mountaineering. Paul has a long record of leading Greenland ice cap expeditions and providing polar science logistics and mountaineering support.

For ten years he was Base Commander of the Rothera Research Station in Antarctica and was awarded Her Majesty The Queen's Polar medal. Paul has logged over 6,000 dives and as well as being qualified in conventional scuba diving he is also able to use rebreathers, mixed gases and nitrox.

He has presented for the BBC on previous programmes: Take One Museum, Meltdown and Voyages of Discovery.

  Richard Bull
Richard was the dive safety officer for Oceans. He's a former session musician with many recording credits and rock musician with chart success. Has done most things in the diving industry, but best known as a consultant, contractor, and supervisor in film and television.

Credits include Blue Planet, Amazon Abyss, Pacific Abyss, Killer Squid and Oceans.

  Matthew Dyas
Matt is filmmaker with a background in expedition productions. He was one of the producers for Oceans. Over the past year and half he and the Oceans team have been sailing the world making this series, from exploring Indian Ocean tropics to navigating an ice-breaking science ship through the polar ice cap.

Other film production credits have taken him further afield, from minus 45˚C in the Siberian Arctic and Himalayan yak herding at over 21,000ft, to underwater filming with spear-hunters around the Mergui Archipelago, Burma.