Meet the LiquidAssets.tv Crew

Aaron Faulls | Host/Executive Director
Aaron began his underwater filmmaking career in 2003 and quickly amassed a wide client list, including such high-profile companies as Accenture, Mullen Advertising and Clear Channel Communications. An SSI/PADI Instructor for more than five years and a New England diver for 15, Aaron has been principle cameraman on aquatic locations from the Charles River to The Cayman Islands. His work has appeared on regional programming as well networks such as MTV, The Sailing Channel and The Water Channel. Aaron most recently appeared on the History Channel’s series Gang Land. Assuming the role of writer, director and editor, Aaron released "Still On Her Keel: The Legacy Of The Chester Poling" in March of 2006 and continues to gain critical steam and immediate buzz, most recently picking up the award for Best Documentary Feature at the Sundeis Film Festival and a June 2006 television premiere on The Water Channel. Aaron is now the host of "Into the Drink" and narrator for "The Over/Under." Make sure you check out the blog, which features Aaron's rants and raves: click here.

Randy Harris | Executive Producer
Randy is a dedicated professional who has worked in several facets of the dive industry for more than 20 years. His experience spans the entire spectrum of the industry, from dive shops to scuba parks, resorts to being the video pro on live-aboards and cruise ships. His latest position in the industry was for a major live-aboard operator that rounded off his knowledge of the diving business. Randy has also been an active scuba instructor for more than 13 years and he was the owner and captain of the charter vessel Sunchaser. Randy is an entrepreneur in the largest sense of the word, and with his range of experience has allowed him to recognize the need for the new media and marketing solutions now offered by LiquidAssets.tv. His career has taken him around the globe from Moscow to Australia to Ecuador and many points in between. Randy is now focusing all his talents and energy on his passion, LiquidAssets.tv. His peers at LiquidAssets.tv consider him one of the leading marketing and sales forces in the scuba diving industry today. Randy is the executive producer and founder of LiquidAssets.tv.

Nick Lucey | Writer/Producer
Nick began his career in journalism in the 1980's as a combat correspondent in the U.S. Marine Corps, attached to infantry and artillery units deployed throughout the western Pacific and Asia. He finished his tour as a sergeant at Parris Island, S.C., then moved to nearby Savannah, Georgia, where he became a copy editor for the Savannah Morning News. He then worked his way up the ranks to become Editor at Large of Scuba Diving Magazine, where he also served as a territory sales manager and online sales and site manager for the magazine's web properties, including ScubaDiving.com, for more than 15 years. Nick is among the world's foremost dive journalists and industry experts, and his assignments have taken him to all corners of the globe in search of articles and underwater and topside photos, including Australia, Baja, Borneo, Brazil, Canada, Egypt, Hawaii, Japan, the Maldives, Micronesia, Tahiti, and nearly every island in the Caribbean. He's logged thousands of dives in hundreds of dive destinations, and his articles and photographs have been published in magazines the world over.

Mark Santa-Maria | Director of Photography/Chief Sound Engineer
Mark is an award winning documentary filmmaker and sound recording engineer. He is passionate about filming majestic images in harmony with the sounds of the experience. His recent film on manatees and their vocalizations has garnered him a showing at the prestigious international Wildlife Film Festival as a finalist and an award winner. His work has also appeared on several broadcast and cable channels. He is an experienced traveler and instructor/diver who has led expeditions from Africa to Chuuk Lagoon and from the cold waters of Puget Sound to the tropical magnificence of Palau. If you don't find him the open blue waters, he is probably squeezing through a cave restriction in the Yucatan. It is difficult to keep Mark out of the water. He joins the crew of LiquidAssets.tv as the sound engineer and cameraman.

Travis Gainsley | Sales
Travis began his professional diving career in 1993, when he was hired by Professional Diving Schools of Florida. After six years of teaching and managing the retail facility there, he moved on to join Scuba Diving Magazine in '99 where he worked until 2005 as a Territory Manager. Following his love for the mountains, Travis moved to Steamboat Springs, Colorado, where he founded 3-Wire Media Group in 2007. With clients such as Steamboat Magazine, The Mountain Wine Festival Series, PaddlingLife.net and Rocky Peak Productions, Travis brings a wealth of print, online and event sales experience to the table.

Cheryl Patterson | Travel Specialist
Cheryl was born and raised in London, England, and has been an avid traveler since visiting Venice at the age of 8. During her school years, she traveled extensively throughout Europe and the Mediterranean and her early passion for travel romanced her into earning a degree in Travel & Tourism with distinctions at age 18. Cheryl's career has taken her from travel agencies and tour operators in the UK to American Airlines in the US. It was while in Tucson, Arizona, that she first gave scuba a try, and in a breath, her second passion was born. She went on to earn her instructor certificate in order to share her love for diving with others. Between travel and diving, it seemed only natural to combine her two passions into one, and thus, Deep Blue Adventures, Cheryl's highly successful dive travel company, was created. It's that everything Cheryl loves is represented at LiquidAssets.tv that brings her to the team and that above and below and everywhere in between, there is an untold story to share with the planet.

Douglas Heckman | Graphic Designer/Editor/Cameraman
Douglas is a musician by birth, a filmmaker by trade and a graphic designer for fun and money. As a self professed tech geek, he prides himself on being equally comfortable behind a film camera, a computer workstation or a mixing console bigger than his couch. After studying cinematography at Penn State, he did the sensible thing and joined a rock band. After he traveled through almost every state in the U.S. and a few countries in Europe, he settled down into the nice quiet life of a freelance motion graphic designer. Over the years, he has managed to get his work onto ESPN and into places like the Paris Air Show. He has spent the past eight years working for the leading provider in private television networks, ClubCom, LLC. While there, he has worked on campaigns for Starbucks and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. His work can be seen daily in hundreds of health clubs, bowling alleys and bars around the world. Douglas joins the LiquidAssets.tv crew as a Graphic Designer, Editor and Cameraman.

Jillian Morris | Photographer/Videographer
Jillian grew up on the water in Maine and started her dive career there in 2004. In just 4 years she has logged nearly 600 dives from filming white sharks in Guadalupe to jungle diving Cenotes in central Yucatan. Jillian is a marine biologist, PDIC instructor and rebreather diver. She has photographed and written for Sport Diver, Advanced Diver Magazine and Underwater Journal. Jillian is also an underwater model for several photographers and numerous publications. Anything to do with the water and you will find her there. She is also actively involved with Shark Saver.Org and considers photo & video a means to truly educate. She joins Liquid Assets with the vision of sharing the amazing ocean with the world and to dive/travel with the most rock star guys in the industry.

Declan Phelan | Multilingual Narrator/Co-Host
Declan was born in Dublin, Ireland, March 1954, and went on to study and live in England, Sweden, Holland and France. From 1977 to 1981 he traveled extensively through Africa, Asia Minor, India and China. He sailed from Malaysia to the South Pacific, spending many months on various Islands, including Tonga, New Caledonia,Tahiti, Bora Bora, and Huahine. He then moved to the U.S. and spent a decade in Northern California and Maui, Hawaii. He's worked a variety of jobs including logger, fisherman, bouncer, waiter, bartender, painter, carpenter ... you get the idea. He's made Texas his home since 1992 but still manages to travel to Europe, Nepal, Peru, and his personal favorites, Chile, and Easter Island.