Meet the LiquidAssets.tv Crew

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. Before his break into television, the last position Randy held in the diving industry was in marketing for a major live-aboard operator that rounded off his knowledge and experience in the diving business. Randy has also been an active scuba instructor for more than 15 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, television production as a partner at LiquidAssets.tv. His peers at LiquidAssets.tv consider him one of the leading marketing and sales forces in his field. Randy is the executive producer and founder of LiquidAssets.tv.

Nick Lucey > Host of "Into the Drink", Season 2/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, Seasons One and Two
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.

Johnny Reidt > Director
Johnny Reidt grew up with a dream, to be Jacques Cousteau. He was seduced by the ocean by the age of eight while spending hours at the beach free diving and turning over rocks to discover what lived below. He began diving the Pacific Northwest's Puget Sound in 1979. Johnny started filmmaking while documenting his adventures as the singer of the band New American Shame. While signed to Atlantic Records, he toured with many bands ranging from The Cult to Kid Rock. Johnny is a lover of all things: family, fish and film; He is a conservationist, a fly fisherman, an artist, and a dive instructor.

Travis Matteson >Director of Photography
Travis is a critically acknowledged photographer, videographer, musician, magician, mathematician, logician, electrician, statistician, and computer technician. At the age of 16, he was rocking his guitar in front of sold out crowds, and later went on to become a well-known radio personality in his home town of Kansas City. He grew tired of the cold, and moved to St. Thomas where he became a PADI instructor. The rest is history.

Jacques Star >Sound/Editor/Cameraman
Jacques was born in Malbork, Poland with the name Jakub Szucko. He came to the United States with his family as a political refugee in 1981. Star grew up in Dallas, Texas, and when obtaining his American citizenship at the age of 10, he changed his name to Jacques in honor of ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau. Star obtained RFTV and Communications degrees at the University of Texas at Arlington, and started his own freelance business. By 2006, his work had been broadcasted on numerous national networks, including National Geographic, History Channel, ABC, NBC, CNN, TLC and FOX. Jacques also studied Environmental Science with an emphasis in Marine and Coastal Resources, and worked as a scuba lab tech working with an underwater rotary time lapse camera system at Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi. After four years at Texas A&M, he returned to Dallas to continue his freelance work for LiquidAssets.tv.

Kim Randall > Photographer/On-location Coordinator
Kim Randall was born with a passport in one hand and plane tickets in another, along with a love for the ocean, She has been an avid traveler and diver since an early age. First certified to dive in the BVI's in 1992, Kim has traveled to over 35 countries around the world, diving in most of them. In recent years, intrigued by capturing the uniqueness of the underwater world on camera, she picked up a DSL-R camera and underwater housing and has been hooked on underwater photography ever since. When Kim isn't traveling the globe with the Into the Drink crew, she works with Discovery Education in their Professional Development division training educators across the country how to use Discovery Education's products and best practices with technology in the classroom. Kim joins the Into the Drink crew as a still photographer and on-location coordinator.

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.

Emily Cook > Web Design/Email Marketing
Emily has been working in the field of web and graphic design for over 10 years. After graduating with a degree in graphic design, she worked for a variety of clients and joined Scuba Diving Magazine in 2006 where she served as their web designer. In addition to web design, Emily has a passion for herpetology. She runs a reptile keeping and breeding business in which ball pythons and crested geckos are her specialty. Emily joins the crew of LiquidAssets.tv as the web and email marketing designer. She wishes she could take credit for inventing Google and all of its associated web properties, but unfortunately someone else did it first.