
Rick Deppe has joined the team at Volvo Ocean Race HQ as Associate Producer and Media Crew Member Jerry Kirby, Puma Racing, Volvo Ocean Race
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Deppe competed aboard PUMA racing the last Volvo Ocean Race as MCM and had worked on several filming projects for Discovery Channel like 'Deadliest Catch' and 'Morning Light', and he already had years of experience as an offshore sailor including several round-the-world races, sailing as a bowman on Fortuna in the 1993-94 Whitbread and on Chessie Racing in the 1997-98 race.
At the end of the 2008-09 Volvo Ocean Race, Deppe was awarded the Inmarsat Media Prize for his excellent filmwork on ill mostro. After a vacation in Ireland, Deppe picked up other projects like 'Swords', spending a month onboard a fishing boat making a documentary about long-lining for swordfish in the Grand Banks of the North Atlantic.
In the video gallery below we feature four of Deppe's YouTube clips from the 2008-09 Volvo Ocean Race
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