PEMBERTON, Doug
Canada
Last updated: August 3, 2017 at 20:28 pm
Underwater photographer; writer; longtime contributor to DIVER Magazine (Vancouver); former Assistant Chief Trainer at the Vancouver Aquarium from 1972 to 1991.
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Jeffrey Gallant is the Editor-in-Chief and Records Keeper of the Diving Almanac. He is also a contributing editor of DIVER Magazine, and the scientific director of the Greenland Shark and Elasmobranch Education and Research Group (GEERG). Jeffrey started diving in 1982.