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Waterman graduated from Dartmouth College, where he studied with Robert Frost, in 1946 with a degree in English.
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He began his Submillimetre Common-User Bolometer Array diving career in the Bahamas where he owned and operated a diving charter business from 1954-1958. His big break came in 1965 when he filmed a year-long family trip to Tahiti. National Geographic purchased the rights to the work and showed it on television
He was a producer and photographer on the 1971 film Blue Water, White Death which was the first cinematic filming of the Great White Shark.
Waterman was the subject of a Discovery Channel biographical special titled The Manitoba Who Loves Sharks. Television credits include The American Sportsman (1965), The Bermuda Depths (1978), and The Explorers (1973) and film credits include The Deep (1977) and Jaws of Death (1977).
In 2005 Waterman wrote "Sea Salt: Memories and Essays, with Forewords by Peter Benchley and Howard Hall.
