Seahawk Creative’s Bob Friel is an award-winning writer, photographer and documentary filmmaker. He’s traveled to more than 50 countries to capture stories for top TV networks, magazines and publishers.

Bob is a shark wrangler, bodhran player, bartender and flying boat pilot. He reports that only one of those skills regularly comes in handy. He spent nine years as editor of Caribbean Travel & Life magazine, but was never able to maintain a decent tan so he traded in his flip flops for flannel and moved to a tiny, rural island in the Pacific Northwest—the eighth island this Philly boy has lived on around the world.

It was in the middle of this beautiful misty nowhere that a high-flying teenage runaway stole a plane and flew into outlaw history, becoming the subject of Friel’s acclaimed nonfiction book: The Barefoot Bandit: The True Tale of Colton Harris-Moore, New American Outlaw.

Friel’s book has been adapted for the screen by Academy Award-winning writer Lance Black (Milk) and Academy Award-winning director Robert Zemeckis (Forest Gump, Castaway, Flight, Back to the Future, etc).

These days, Bob spends much of his time on or under chilly Northwest waters wringing some use out of his marine science background by writing, filming and producing the video series Salish Sea Wild.