CAPTAIN DON KINCAID
MAKES
PRESENTATION AT MFMHS
Captain Don Kincaid will make a presentation on "Images of Search and Recovery" at the Mel Fisher Maritime Museum at 7 P.M. on Tuesday, March 2. The lecture is part of the Community of Visiting Scholars Series and is free and open to the public.
Don Kincaid developed his passion early for the underwater world. Don was a fan of the water, its sunken ships and artifacts, and marine organisms from the time he was nine years old. He constructed a waterproof housing for his Kodak Brownie Hawk Eye camera so that he could take it underwater. At 10 years old he read an article by Mel Fisher who was diving for gold nuggets and also running the first dive shop in the U.S.A., in Redondo Beach, CA. Their paths would cross again when Don was 26.
Don received his photography training at the Army's film school, school for photojournalism at Germaine University and taking classes in underwater photography from Hank Frey at N.Y.U. He has many wreck dives to his credit in addition to his many years with Mel as the photographer-diver on the search of the 1622 Fleet, and for the "the Big A." Don Kincaid's photographs are seen in National Geographic and other national media.
The Museum Galleries at 200 Greene Street will open at 6 P.M. so that lecture attendees can visit the Museum Exhibits. The Mel Fisher Maritime Museum is a 501 c (3) not for profit organization in Key West dedicated to the research, preservation, and education of New World history. Founded in 1982, it is the most visited non-profit history museum in the southeastern United States.
