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Eri Ippel (born on November 20th 1972) is a Hawaiian based cinematographer spezialising in underwater, over water, adventure, outdoors, and documentary. He is world renowned for his high quality ocean cinematography. Erik works in closest proximity to the world best watermen and surfers in the water so to get as close as possible to the action. On other speziality of Erik Ippels work is that he builds the housings for his high quality cameras like the RED or the Phantom cameras. Being one of the only camerman who can use such precious cameras in the ocean.

Biography

Erik Ippel was born on the 20th of November 1972 in ...., USA. From the age of 2 he spend his childhood in Hawaaii, where his love for surfing started. When the family left for the mainland ( Location) Erik made sure that he still got in the water. He became a very talented swimmer, with asperations for the olympics ( Year ??). He still continued surfing, but not making it into the professional league he started taking photos of the surfers. Which sold after the contest very well. After highschool Erik went to California to study cinematography in School name. In 1997 he successfully graduated. Straight away he started working for the world renowned surf photograher Dan Merkel. Soon he was working for Dan from Hawaii, becoming well known within the surfer world. Filming surfing in the whole wide world. His high quality filimg became knwon also in the adventure and and outdoor scene and Erik started fliming for extreme skiers, underwater world specialists, shark scientists, and big fishing undertakings.