Diving, Surfing, Travel, Sharks, climbing, working out and feeling fit, riding my mountain bike, shooting underwater video and stills, good beer (Coopers Pale is epic), Jack Daniels
Music
Pretty much any punk music, particularly the 'skate punk' genre... AFI, Pennywise, Strung Out, NOFX, and Propagandhi just get me amped. Working out dictates some pretty hardcore music, Raised Fist, MadBall, Hatebreed and Ignite rule. To chill it's Tiesto, John Butler Trio or anything pretty casual. Check out San Diego's own Critical Me as well, they rule.
Movies
Television
Discovery Channel, Family guy, Two and a Half Men
Books
Robert Jordan, Terry Goodkind, Robyn Hobb, Raymon E. Feist, Steven Erikson... don't now the books? Get to know the authors. Plenty of entertainment for long sea voyages
Heroes
Anyone living in pursuit of the life they dared to dream.
Luke Tipple's Details
My Status:
Constantly Stoked
Nationality:
Proudly Australian
Interested in:
The Ocean & Sharks
Orientation:
Straight
Hometown:
Adelaide / LA
Body Type:
Athletic
Zodiac Sign:
Virgo
Drink:
See Nationality ;)
Education:
College Degree
Occupation:
Marine Biologist / TV Host
Luke Tipple's Details
Status:
Single
Here for:
Networking, Friends
Orientation:
Straight
Body type:
5' 11" / Athletic
Ethnicity:
White / Caucasian
Zodiac Sign:
Virgo
Smoke / Drink:
No / Yes
Education:
College graduate
Occupation:
Marine Biologist
Luke Tipple's Schools
University Of Miami
Coral Gables, FL
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Marine Biology
2003 to 2003
James Cook University
Townsville, Australia
Graduated: 2005
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Marine Biology
Clubs: University Hall
2001 to 2005
Luke Tipple's Companies
Islander Charters San Diego, California US Marine Biologist / DSO
SharkDiver.com Various, Various US Dive Operations Manager
Luke Tipple Is proud to be an Aussie Posted at 2:42 PM Jan 29 view more
'Til now I've been hesitant to join the Myspace community... Living a traveling life makes it hard to keep up with this stuff. But now I have a great management team to help fill in the gaps and they've convinced me this could be fun. Straight up though, an apology to my mates... there's a lot of promo shots of me here! So I'll make it up to you and post a ton of cool sharks and traveling stuff, deal?
Hope to catch you soon
Dive safe - Luke
Lukes Bio (official version)
Luke Tipple is a marine biologist, professional diver and TV and film personality from Adelaide, Australia.
As a marine biologist he works with numerous species of sharks from top order predators such as the Great White and Tiger Shark to more gentle species like the filter feeding Whale Shark. His accomplishments include writing tourism guidelines for Honduras based on his field research, and safely guiding hundreds of clients while diving the infamous Guadalupe Island, Mexico, and Tiger Shark Beach in the Bahamas.
Recently he consulted and conducted film shoots for the French documentary company Ushwaia and has just finished shooting with Discovery Channels “Mythbusters”, Adam Savage and Jamie Hynemann, on their premiere program for Shark Week 2008. Luke is based in Long Beach where he runs offshore shark diving operations for SharkDiver.com and Islander Charters.
He is regularly contracted to coordinate potential life and death situations but when on land he can regularly be found in LA working with his management team.
My Story (the long version)
"My earliest memory is being thrown in the ocean by my father and returning to the surface laughing."
I was born on September 4th 1979 in the city of Adelaide, Australia. My father is a unique mix of missionary and visionary entrepreneur and my mother displays her compassionate nature as a nurse. While still very young my parents traveled around Australia preaching and starting churches.
Dad taught me about the ocean, strapping me to the front of his surf kayak to go spearfishing at age five and encouraging me and my brother to get into the surf.
The wandering continued throughout my youth as I attended 6 different primary schools and 2 high schools before graduation. By this time I was living in South Australia and living a fairly typical teenage lifestyle, surfing and diving everyday, racing cars and playing in a punk band with my brother Mark.
I began university as a business major, thinking to travel in my fathers footsteps, but after a year I yearned for something more.
I was screaming to break out of my home turf so, two weeks before my 21st birthday, I interviewed for a job on a cruise ship. The un-glamorous life of a busboy on the Alaskan run was far from the senoritas and margaritas I envisioned so I returned home and after a brief stint in sales applied to James Cook University on the Barrier Reef to study Marine Biology.
While attending classes in animal behavior and conservation I continued my dive education and earned my Dive Masters on the Barrier Reef. After a year as President of my university I undertook an exchange program to Miami University to further my study of sharks at the Rosentstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences.
With only one semester left until graduation I was offered a position as a Dive Officer on a super-yacht in the Mediterranean, my itchy feet couldn't refuse. Based in Palma, Mallorca I spent a year cruising the Mediterranean and Red Seas on our $20M vessel. I was given the privilege of spending $250K on dive gear for our billionaire owner while at the same time I was trained in Hyperbaric Medicine, Technical mixed gas diving and became a Dive Instructor. After my contract expired I reluctantly resigned and returned to Australia to graduate.
Upon graduation I accepted a research position working with Whale Sharks on the island of Utila, Honduras. Serving as lead Marine Biologist, myself and my team worked with the government to pass new tourism regulations to help protect the sharks. I led the successful tagging and biopsy program, personally tagging over 20 sharks in one season, and was featured in a documentary for British television.
Now based in Long Beach I run all offshore operations for Sharkdiver.com. We hold the highest safety record for any shark diving operation in the United States and are extremely proud of our reputation.
I spend 3 months a year at Isla Guadalupe diving with Great White Sharks and 2 months a year diving with Tiger Sharks in the Bahamas. To date I have logged over 1700 dives, have conducted many dives below 300ft, worked and dove with over a dozen species of sharks and guided hundreds of select clients while encountering apex predators.
My recent foray into the vicarious world of television and film production has me excited about the possibilties that come with great opportunity. I'm now called upon to consult with production teams in order to keep their team safe while diving with Apex predators as well as lending professional credibility to nature programming.
My work is my life and the ocean is my passion. I plan to extend my message of education and conservation through the medium of television and the internet, I hope day by day to inspire others to come into my world and have a deeper appreciation for our greatest resource.
After all, it's where we all came from…
- LST
Who I'd like to meet: Someone who challenges me today
We are playing a kick ass show with the legendary Dwarves and our good friends The Uprising on January 17th at Brick by Brick. We have a limited amount of presale tix for $8 ($12 at the door) including S&H that you can buy on our MySpace page. We go on at 9:30pm followed by The Uprising and the Dwarves
Strung Out is my FAVORITE! One of my good friends is friends with them, so I've gotten to meet them and hang out with them for a night! They rock! You're so lucky you get to see them tonight! They don't come to Sacramento much anymore... :(
hey luke, just wanted to give you a quick hello while i had the chance. hope your doing great and we should really catch up. so much has happened since the last time we talked or hung out. just wanted to say i hope you have a great xmas and happy holidays! i'm actually in kansas right now visiting my family...i'll be clicking my heels on the 30th to come home dont worry! miss ya
We are playing a kick ass show this Friday night at San Diego House of Blues w/ Unwritten Law and Sprung Monkey. If you become a House of Blues member (its free), they offer 2 for 1 tickets every TUESDAY (10am-10pm) if you buy them online. All you have to do is click on this link tomorrow, quickly register, and get the 2 for 1 deal for our Friday night show w/ Unwritten Law and Sprung Monkey. Be there and be loud!
