Category: Awards + Tributes

McKinney will be on hand for the special tribute and presentation on Tuesday, December 15 at the College Of The Bahamas.

McKinney has been involved in underwater film making since 1973 when he worked as a diver on the feature film DAY OF THE DOLPHIN and has spent over 20,000 hours underwater making films.
 
He has worked on over fifty feature films and television shows, including five James Bond films. THE SPY WHO LOVED ME, FOR YOUR EYES ONLY, MOONRAKER, NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN, and THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH, and in addition to working behind the scenes with logistics and planning he was the Bond underwater double in FOR YOUR EYES ONLY, and THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH.
 
McKinney thinks he is the only person in the history of the film industry to have been run over by a car underwater in THE SPY WHO LOVED ME. He spent four months working on THE ABYSS in 1988. Since 2001 he has also co-produced and filmed three highly successful three dimensional underwater films for the Imax theatres. produced and distributed 3D Entertainment : OCEAN WONDERLAND 3D, SHARKS 3D and DOLPHINS AND WHALES 3D. These films have been seen by over eleven million people worldwide to date.
 
He offers over thirty five years of experience filming underwater and has provided full production services for underwater shoots, including personnel, logistics, locations and marine services, though now his energies are directed towards conservation and education about the oceans of the world.
 
Gavin’s current project is OCEAN WORLD 3D (working title), directed and produced by Jean-Jacques and Francois Mantello. A Full length 3D documentary due for release summer 09, which premiered at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival in May, is a fictitious story of a turtle’s voyage around the world.