Santa Barbara Cinematographer Mike deGruy Dies in Helicopter Crash

Award-winning cinematographer Mike deGruy was killed over the weekend in a helicopter crash in Eastern Australia. He was 60 years-old. DeGruy was on assignment for National Geographic at the time of his death. The Santa Barbara-based deGruy was probably best known for his work on James Cameron’s documentary Last Mysteries of the Titanic.

Andrew Wight, an Australia-based writer-producer who also collaborated with Cameron in the past, was also killed in the crash.

“Mike and Andrew were like family to me,” Cameron told

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