Tove Petterson

Tove Petterson was born in Norway where she started scuba diving at a young age and left to travel the world as a dive-master. Her first contract with Lindblad Expeditions was on the Polaris in 1991. Since then, Tove has combined her professional career in the film industry as an Underwater Camera Operator and Stunt Performer while working as an Undersea Specialist and Video Chronicler for Lindblad Expeditions. Her assignments have taken her to all seven continents and over 100 countries, where she has climbed mountains and frozen waterfalls, swum with sharks and crocodiles, scuba dived in all the tropical seas as well as in the Arctic and Antarctic. Camera credits include natural history documentary programs for Discovery and Animal Planet and her most recent stunt credit is Kate Hudson’s stunt double in the American feature film ‘Fool’s Gold’ to be released in 2008. Tove is based in Australia and works as a Video Chronicler on board the MS National Geographic Endeavour.