Film-maker and adventurer Andrew Wight, responsible for bringing some of the world’s most famous underwater wrecks to the big screen, died in yesterday’s tragic Berry helicopter crash.
Wight is believed to have perished in the fire which engulfed the small helicopter alongside fellow film-maker Mike DeGruy just before 4pm yesterday.
Do you know more? Click here to tell usKnown for his work with director and Hollywood film-maker James Cameron, Wight helped shoot the wreckage of the Titanic and the WWII German battleship Bismark, and most recently, Australian cave-diving thriller Sanctum.
Wight was in the area with Cameron, the pair working on another film collaboration.
Degruy was also known for his documentary film-making, and had worked with BBC, PBS and National Geographic.
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