Chriss Lyon received a 2008 "Going Overboard" award for her research in connection with Flight 2501. An MSRA member for less than a year, she has worked closely with MSRA director Valerie van Heest to locate families of Flight 2501 victims and has contributed other research on the accident.

She also has assisted MSRA member Kevin McGregor, one of the team who located Northwest Airlines Flight 4422, a DC-4 that crashed in Alaska in 1947, to locate families of those victims as well. (McGregor presented the story of Flight 4422 at the 2007 MSRA annual event). Chriss also is researching a number of shipwrecks and other small plane crashes and has been filming many of MSRA's expeditions.

As a native of St. Joseph, Michigan, Chriss was born into maritime history. With an innate curiosity of tragedy and unsolved mysteries nurtured by two grandmothers with a passion for genealogy and local history, Chriss evolved from the family historian into a forensic genealogist and investigative researcher for several nationally-known authors and projects.

A graduate of Lake Michigan College and Grand Valley State University, Chriss studied Film/Video Production and worked in the cable news and radio industry before joining the Berrien County Public Safety Communications Center in 1995 as a 911 Supervisor where she has worked ever since.

When not handling shootings, suicides, robberies and wanted subjects on traffic stops, Chriss spends her time researching and writing about gangsters in Southwest Michigan, browsing through cemetery sexton records, scouring newspaper articles for clues on various shipwrecks in Lake Michigan and possibly tracing back five generations and forward six generations to find a living relative for the victim of a plane crash. And if there is time left in the day, you might find Chriss out on the boat videotaping but not diving; she hasn’t ventured into that ....yet.

Robert Doornbos received a 2008 MSRA "Going Overboard" award for his contributions creating beautiful original renderings of the shipwreck sites discovered by MSRA. To date he has created drawings of the Hennepin, Ann Arbor No. 5, the SS Michigan and the Hamilton. He will be working on future discoveries as well.

Robert Gadbois received the first MSRA "Going Overboard" award in 2006 for his work editing and producing all of MSRA's documentary films over the past decade. His productions for MSRA include: The Verano, Porthole to the Past, The Chicora, The Discovery of the H.C. Akeley, Mystery Wreck at Forty Fathoms, Planes Trains and Ships, She Died a Hard Death, Icebound Found, and Freshwater Monsoon.

As a 37 year veteran Chicago CBS videographer and editor, Bob has gone around the world to document Popes and Presidents, movie stars and mobsters and disasters of all types. His first love, however, is diving and Great Lakes shipwrecks. He has freelanced for organizations such as the Underwater Archaeological Society of Chicago and MSRA to document Great Lakes underwater history, and has produced and served as editor for countless documentaries including works of his own, the UASC and MSRA. Two of his documentaries for MSRA, Icebound Found, and She Died a Hard Death, were selected for inclusion in the prestigious Waterfront Film Festival in Saugatuck, Michigan.