Julianne Ziefle is an award-winning speaker, photographer and media professional. She has been helping schools in the South Pacific since 1992 and has lectured for 20 years in her local school district.

Julianne is a talented, woman with interests in Underwater Environmental matters, Underwater Filmmaking and Publishing.  Tho she's slowed down those activities due to circumstances beyond her control, she still enjoys writing and even agenting other's works.

Julianne Ziefle always enjoys spending her time working in media and marine science education. She enjoys selling her own images and those of Bob Halstead.  She also represents Viktor, a granite scultor who focuses on his boyhood hero's, Jacques Cousteau, his sons, Jean-Michel, and the late Philippe Cousteau.  This boyhood dream has followed him into adulthood where it has expanded to Sylvia Earle, Lloyd Bridges, Hans & Lotte Hass and more.

Photo of Bob Halstead's Underwater Model, Leigh Paine

New Horizons

This year, 2010, the WDHOF celebrates it's 10th anniversary at Beneath The Sea in Seracus, NJ.  Google has launched it's Google Ocean http://earth.google.com/ocean by having Viktor's sculptures appear on display at their Headquarters in Mountain View, CA.  There are some lovely articles you can find online and soon, some article in some dive industry magazines. 

Who knows what's next.  The Hans & Lotte sculpture went on to the BOOT Show for display there and is now in Vienna for the Museum of Natural History & Science's function before it makes it's way back to it's Chicago based home.

From 2000 and beyond

Between 1996 and 2000 , Julianne enjoyed watching and photographing Laura Wilkinson and her rise to Olympic Gold at the Games in Sydney, Australia.  Julianne happened upon a couple of ticket on ebay and she and a friend enjoyed the comback kid come from 8th place to first place on the Women's 10M Platform.  Laura went on to perform in the 2008 Bejing Olympics.

In 2002 Julianne was nominated by Hillary Viders, PhD to the Women Diver's Hall of Fame and inducted that same year. This year 2010, the organization is celebrating it's 10th anniversary with a Hard Bound book commemorating this event at Beneath The Sea.  Unfortunately Julianne will not be in attendance.

In 2006, Julianne was able to get her niece certified while she visited during that year she dove with both Julianne, Bill and divers on the DAN Board to the NOAA underwater scientific habitat that, unfortunately, is no longer being funded.  It wasa quite an experience for everyone.

BUT PLEASE WAIT!.... THERE IS MORE TO COME AND SOON!

Since Bill, her husband's growing duties with Divers Alert Network, oddly enough there have been very few opportunities to go diving tho Bill always has his equipment on hand.  Julianne has had to hang up her regulator for a while, but she expects that she will once again someday be able to dive without fear of putting herself or her buddy in harm's way.

Thank you for taking the time to visit the site and please come back soon!

julz@julz.com

Skilled Photographer

As a professional photographer, Julianne's photographs have appeared in numerous diving publications and corporate annual reports, catalogs and newspapers. Her corporate clients include Hitachi, LifeCell, Houston Chronicle, Russian Diving Federation, The Villager, and The Woodlands Athletic Center.

Talent in Abundance

Julianne currently agents: Bob & Dinah Halstead of Papua New Guinea and Granite Sculptor Viktor from Chicago and Michael Jung (an Austrian author who specializes in the history of dive technology).

Julianne represented Prof. Dr. Hans Hass of Austria in 1998 through 2002.  Dr. Hass invented the first re-breather, tho it was flawed.  He also made the Hans Hass Rollemarine Camera.  During his time he made 101 films and wrote about 26 books.  He inspired many of our older generation of scuba divers. Julianne strongly urges young people to learn more about the history of the oceans.  In an effort to help others learn about the works of Hans Hass she helped make 2 National Georgraphic Films, one film for the History Channel's Modern Marvels and a Jack McKenney Productions film, "Oceans History". 

Michael Jung is also Hans Hass' (pioneer of Underwater Swimdiving)

Many of Julianne's clients both present and past have been commissioned by

National Geographic,

Discovery Chanel,

The History Channel

and magazines including

BBC Wildlife Magazine,

International Wildlife Federation,

Dive International,

Skin Diver Magazine,

Sport Diver,

Conde Nast Traveler,

Departures,

and many more.

read about Hans Hass (click >)