User:Raschke9130/Sean Casey (filmmaker)

Sean Casey - TIV Chief and Champion Storm Chaser "I was on Christmas Island for six weeks filming red crabs mating and migrating to the seashore to deposit their eggs in the Indian Ocean. The island had a large enough population to support a public library but was small enough to give me 'island fever.' So I'm doing a lot of reading, because the crabs are slow to mate this year for some reason or another, and one of the books I've checked out is on storm chasing and the idea hit me to go out to the Midwest with an IMAX camera and see how hard it was to film tornadoes. On the very first chase day I was hooked and have been going out each year for the past nine seasons. Every year I got more comfortable with the act of chasing tornadoes and each year I had the desire to get closer. So I came up with the concept of building a vehicle that we could actually drive into a tornado. With the TIV we could film the action up close where all the drama and power is found and do so in the relative safety of a 16,000-pound armored vehicle." http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/storm-chasers/teams/teams.html