Joe's Prints
Joe Liburdi started diving in 1952, when divers wore twin-hose regulators and scuba lessons consisted of the words, "Blow and go!" In 1966, while stationed with the Air Force in the Philippines, he founded the first scuba training school and AF Dive Club for service men at Mactan Air Force Base in the Philippines. That was also the year he took his first underwater photograph with a Calypso camera.
Joe's encounters have appeared in numerous publications, including the most popular American diving magazines, Skin Diver, Scuba Diving, Dive Training, and Sport Diver. He has been published in Undersea Journal, Alaskan Air Magazine, the Digital Photographer, to name a few. He has coauthored seven books: A Guide to Our Underwater World, The Underwater Photo Logbook, How to Use Sea & Sea, How to Use the Motor Marine II, The Complete Guide to Sea & Sea, The New Guide to Sea & Sea, and The Complete Guide to the Motor Marine III. His most recent work appeared in National Geographic' program in conjunction with PADI.
Expressing his impressions of inner space has been his challenge and reward ever since. He has explored the waters of Japan, Micronesia, Malaysia, Southeast Asia, and Eastern Africa. He has dived the Caribbean, the Great Barrier Reef, the Red Sea. He has enjoyed the tepid waters of the Fijian archipelago and explored the cold, green depths of British Columbia. He has dived all the coasts of Mexico and its interior.
Currently, Joe organizes dive travel and trips around the globe and offers personalized instruction on underwater photography.
His photographs document the moods, moments and fascination of five decades beneath the seas and recently Joe has become an expert in wild life photgraphy.
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