ABOUT US
MICHAEL JONES
Aviator, Educator, Underwater Explorer, and Film Producer
“Imagination is more important than knowledge” Albert Einstein
Mike Jones is the creative mind behind projects such as a “once in a lifetime” rendezvous with Halley’s Comet on its last return, where he took 820 excited guests on 6 jet flights to view the comet’s return. Mike has flown 3500+ hours, piloting helicopters over tall mountains, above steaming jungles, and across deserts. As captain of a yellow tour submarine in Hawaii, he carried over 50,000 people to the bottom of the ocean. Under clear evening Hawaiian skies, Michael has captured people’s imaginations conducting star parties ranging in size from one inquisitive stargazer eager to stay up all night just to see and hear more of the unfolding story overhead, to 1200 visitors a week lying on their backs watching, hearing, about our place in the cosmos.
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During Mike’s career as a science teacher, students were carried to magical places, from a drop of pond water under a microscope to the edge of the universe through a telescope. His classroom was the world. He was selected as Washington State’s NASA Teacher in Space Finalist, an adventure that ended with the tragic loss of the space shuttle Challenger. Mike went on to produce NASA-funded, nationally distributed planetarium shows that recreated epic voyages of star navigation by ancient Polynesians and futuristic flights to Mars. He developed and produced the world’s first electronic field trip: a live, interactive voyage to the bottom of the ocean linking over 2000 schools to a team of oceanographers and divers anchored over a shipwreck near Seattle, Washington. The event was featured on CNN and NBC nightly news. Students across the country took a voyage to the bottom of the sea and didn’t even get their feet wet.
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Working with a major film archive group, he researched and established relations with film archives in England. His efforts gained access to the Vatican Museums to build the greatest film and video archive in the world, revealing lands of the Bible as they existed in the First Century. Collaborating on independent film projects, Mike brings the ability to coordinate logistics and the day-to-day workflow in pre-production and on the shoot.
He served as Deputy Project Manager and test pilot for the building of the world’s first privately owned luxury submarine and served as a submersible pilot aboard a 414-foot private superyacht.
