re: NOGI Awards

NOGI awds –
I forgot that the NOGI awards turned into a prestigious award for the underwater community from DEMA, depending on when your paw paw received his it could be a spearfishing trophy or in later years it was an award from the underwater community (e.g., photographers, scientists, advocates, business, etc).
You may have some luck about early NOGI awards if you contact Tementos or one of the helldivers (check their website), they may have some history on it
Years back I was fortunate to meet Roland Rivers daughter and her father had a dive shop and was one of the 1st u/w photographers in the gulf. I was able to copy her fathers 16mm film to dvd – very cool stuff. They were involved in the early NOGI awards when it was a spearfishing competition, similar to the Tarpon Rodeo when they had spearfishing as a category some of the film Roland shot showed the NOGI competition …. BTW GITR how did replacing spearfishing w/ flyfishing work out for you …..
I also met some of the early spearfishermen and passed along copies of the DVD to them. It was a helluva night listening to their stories.


See below for a link I found on older NOGI’s:

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