C J Campbell wrote:

Unfortunately, he and his camera man were killed in an accident in the
Galapagos in 1999.

Yep. He put a 250 pound Imax camera above and in front of the wing of a Quicksilver
GT500. With the cameraman on board, that had the plane overloaded by at least 130
pounds and loaded extremely nose heavy. When he reached cruise altitude for a photo
run, it went into an unrecoverable dive.

George Patterson
Great discoveries are not announced with "Eureka!". What's usually said is
"Hummmmm... That's interesting...."