2025 Film Festival Presenters

Maureen & Steve Langevins

Maureen & Steve Langevin are PADI instructors, technical divers, and US Coast Guard licensed Captains. They founded Dive Voyager Expeditions, a company that specializes in scuba instruction and filmmaking. Christopher Drew, technical diver and Divemaster recently joined the DIVE Team. Steve and Maureen introduce students to diving in the Northeast aboard their dive boat “Voyager” and produce films to entertain audiences about our amazing undersea world and rich maritime history.

Through Dive Voyager Expeditions, they bring out the spirit of ocean exploration through award winning documentary films such as Pioneers of Northeast Wreck Diving, Women of Northeast Wreck Diving, Search for the HMS Sylph and A Shipwreck’s Secret, a story about the expedition to recover a 5,000 pound anchor from the wreck of the Stolt Dagali which is available for online viewing at SnagFilms. The artifact was donated to the Museum of NJ Maritime History where it is displayed prominently at the entranceway.

Their educational children’s series Our Precious Ocean is fun and entertaining but also teaches young people important facts about sharks, coral reefs and how destructive fishing, plastics and balloons can be harmful. The film Lost at Sea: Texas Tower Disaster debuted in 2012 as a rough cut and they have many more films available or are in progress.

Their work has been featured on television, in magazines & newspaper articles, at dive events and film festivals. Maureen is a proud member of the Women Divers Hall of Fame. Check out their work on the Dive Voyager Expeditions YouTube Channel or follow their Facebook page.

Presenting: "Antarctica - The Great Southland Deep Weddell Sea"

Journey as did the famous Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew aboard the Endurance crossing the treacherous Drake passage and visiting remote islands with amazing wildlife above and below. Tracking the Voyage of Shackleton we reach the southern most point of the Deep Weddell Sea exploring and capturing sealife including the beautiful Emperor Penguin, escaping just as the surface of the sea begins to freeze over.

Visit Dive Voyager Expeditions at: http://divevoyagerexpeditions.com/

Peter Venoutsos

Mike Dudas

As a second generation cold water shipwreck diver, I will showcase a few shipwrecks from Ocean City, MD to Long Island, NY that my parents, John and Evelyn Dudas, began exploring in the 1960s and 70s, and that I continue to visit and explore today. This presentation that will share stories and photos of the of discoveries of a few significant wrecks, such as the USS Moonstone, tanker India Arrow, SS Northern Pacific along with my modern visits to these wrecks over the last 25 years.

Raised in a diving family, Mike Dudas began wreck diving at the age of 14. Through the charters of his family dive shop, Dudas Diving Duds, Mike dived shipwrecks from North Carolina to New York including the Andrea Doria. This passion for wreck diving has extended to exploring shipwrecks around the world from Grenada, Vanuatu to New Zealand and included a 2 year stint guiding divers in Bikini Atoll. As recently as this past year Mike continues to explore new wrecks such off the Nantucket Shoals with the D/V Tenacious team.

Presenting: "Program on Northeast Wrecks"

Program title and description to be announced.

For more information about Mike, visit: https://www.facebook.com/madunderwater/

Jennifer N. Sellitti

Jennifer N. Sellitti is a lawyer and a shipwreck hunter. A criminal defense attorney by profession, she and her partner, Joe Mazraani, spend their spare time operating D/V Tenacious, a vessel that locates, dives, and salvages artifacts from shipwrecks in the North Atlantic. Jennifer is a US Coast Guard–licensed ship captain and a certified diver. She was part of the crew that discovered the wreckage of the 1855 passenger steamship Le Lyonnais, the WWI casualty West Point, the bow of M/S Stockholm, and other shipwrecks. She has served as surface support for expeditions to RMS Lusitania, SS Andrea Doria, and Titanic’s sister ship, HMHS Britannic. Jennifer is an associate member of Boston Sea Rovers and passionate about educating people of all ages about maritime history. 

Presenting: "Program on Northeast Wrecks"

Program title and description to be announced.

For more information about Jennifer, visit: https://www.facebook.com/jennifer.sellitti
Visit Atlantic Wreck Salvage at: https://dvtenacious.com/

Michael Salvarezza & Christopher Weaver

Michael Salvarezza and Christopher Weaver have been diving the waters of the world since 1978. In that time, they have spent hundreds of hours underwater and have accumulated a large and varied library of photographic images.

In 1994, Salvarezza and Weaver formed a company called Eco-Photo Explorers, a New York based organization to help promote public interest in protecting the underwater environment through knowledge and awareness using underwater photography. Their photo and freelance writing are all utilized to achieve this goal.

They have presented their work in many multi-media presentations, and have appeared previously at Beneath the Sea, Boston Sea Rovers Underwater Clinic, Our World Underwater and the Long Island Divers Association Film Festival.

Mike and Chris have been published in numerous magazines, including National Geographic Adventure, and have authored many articles for the majority of the dive publications the world over. Their work has also been used to support a number of research and educational programs, including the Jason Project for Education, the Atlantis Marine World Aquarium in New York and the Cambridge University and the University of Groningen Arctic Centre work on monitoring the transformation of historic features in Antarctica and Svalbard.

Presenting: "Malta: Magical Diving in the Mediterranean"

The three islands of the Republic of Malta (Malta, Gozo and Comino) lie in the heart of the Mediterranean Sea, between Sicily and Tunisia. Considered strategically important, Malta has been fought over since ancient times by numerous empires and warring nations. During World War II, the islands were ferociously attacked by the Axis powers, with relentless bombing causing tremendous deprivation and widespread destruction. Still, the Maltese held on and withstood the attacks, a testament to the pride and fortitude of the island nation.

Today, Malta is emerging as a tourist mecca and one of Europe’s capitals of culture. For SCUBA divers, the clear waters of Malta abound with diving opportunities waiting to be explored, from historic shipwrecks to spellbinding blue holes. In this presentation, Eco-Photo Explorers will journey to Malta and reveal its underwater treasures.

See more of Mike and Chris' work at: https://ecophotoexplorers.com