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Speakers
As an informative and entertaining
forum dedicated to the advancement of diving knowledge,
presenters at OZTeK2013 will again include many
of the world's foremost authorities in their respective
fields of diving expertise.
Featuring one of the largest gatherings of diving celebrities ever seen in this region of the world, information on speakers will be regularly added to this section.
Organisations and individuals who are interested in giving presentations at the Conference are invited to contact the organisor at: admin@diveoztek.com.au
Speakers
listed alphabetically by surname
Samir Alhafith
Founder and team leader of the, The Sydney Project - an association of technical divers involved in researching and discovering important historical wrecks in depths between 75 and 135 metres more...
Liam Allen
Liam Allen learned to dive in the fresh water lakes of the Irish Midlands and grew up exploring the dive sites of the rugged west coast of Ireland. Moving to Sydney in 1997 he decided to make a full time career out of diving where he actively worked teaching recreational diving for many years. more...
Assoc Professor Terri Allen
Terri is still a keen Melbourne
diver after learning to dive while at Melbourne University,
in the early 80's while she studied for a Zoology degree.
Most weekends - when she is not busy teaching diving
- Terri is happy mixing it with the boys diving on trimix
to the deep wrecks in Melbourne's more...
Curt Bowen
Curt Bowen is the publisher of Advanced Diver Magazine, CEO of Rebreatherworld.com, and coordinator for the ADM Exploration Team. more...
Craig Challen
A Perth Veterinary Surgeon by profession, Craig Challen is an avid cave diver and explorer and member of the Wet Mules dive team. more...
Chris Coxon
Chris Coxon is the Principal Advisor (Diving) with Workplace Health and
Safety Queensland. He has worked with the state regulator following a
career in the recreational diving industry in both Queensland and
overseas. more...
John Dalla-Zuanna
John Dalla-Zuanna completed a diving course in 1973 and began Cavediving in that same year after a club trip to Mt. Gambier. more...
Kevin Deacon
Kevin Deacon is considered one of Australia's most experienced, accomplished and highly published underwater photographers. His images have received international acclaim and have graced the pages of prestigious books and magazines throughout the World during the past 30 years. more...
Joe Dituri
CDR Joseph Dituri enlisted in the U.S. Navy due to his desire to be a Navy diver and later was commissioned into the Special Operations Officer pipeline. Currently he is on active duty in the U. S. Navy and is a Saturation Diving Officer with 25+ years of service. more...
Dr. Andrew Fock
Andrew began diving in 1988, during his intern year, as a member of a University based club. This spurred an interest in Diving Medicine (and a love of diving ship wrecks) more...
Grant W. Graves
Grant has been an adventurer his whole life. Growing up at the beach in Malibu, he was swimming before he could walk. He learned to escape into the ocean with surfing and then freediving. As age allowed, he found scuba diving. more...
Kevin Gurr
Kevin Gurr was the first Technical Diving Instructor outside of the USA and is an IT at all levels. He was the first engineer to develop an EANx dive computer in the late 1980, is the co-author of Proplanner Decompression software more...
Dr Richard Harris
Richard Harris (or Dr Harry as he is better known), is an Adelaide based tech diver and underwater photographer. To pay for this expensive addiction he works as an anaesthetist and hyperbaric physician! more...
Jill Heinerth
A pioneering underwater explorer and film maker, Jill Heinerth has dived deeper into
caves than any woman in history. With a collection of magnificent images, from inside Antarctic icebergs to crystal underwater cathedrals more...
Dr Tom Iliffe
Dr. Tom Iliffe is a Professor of Marine Biology and Director of the Marine Biospeleology Lab at Texas A&M University at Galveston. Prior to coming to Texas in 1989, Tom was a Research Scientist at the Bermuda Biological Station more...
Trevor Jackson
Captain Trevor Jackson has operated offshore dive liveaboards for the past 15 years. One of Australia's most experienced dive boat captains; he has located nearly two dozen previously unknown shipwrecks. more...
Brian Kakuk
Brian Kakuk is the Founder/Director of the Bahamas Caves Research Foundation and co-owner/operator of Bahamas Underground Technical Diving Facility. more...
Michael Menduno
Michael is a reporter, writer
and technologist who was responsible for coining the
term "technical diving." His work has appeared in Asian
Diver, Business 2.0, Bloomberg Finance, DIVER, NACD
Journal, Newsweek, Outside, Scientific American, Scuba
Times, Undercurrent, Undersea Journal, Wired and X-Ray
magazines. more...
Pete Mesley
Pete's passion for diving started in the cold English waters over 21 years ago. This is where his "Lust for Rust" was created and from then onwards he has dedicated himself to researching, finding, diving and photographing wrecks. more...
Simon Pridmore
Simon Pridmore is a former Hong Kong Police Officer and Assistant Political Adviser to the Governor of Hong Kong. Over the last 15 years, he has been at the sharp end of the scuba diving scene in Asia, Europe and the USA. more...
Associate Professor Simon Mitchell
Simon is an anaesthesiologist and diving physician. His diving career has spanned many disciplines including sport, scientific, commercial, and military diving. He remains an avid diver, and uses rebreathers to pursue his interest in deep wrecks and photography. more...
Paul Raymaekers
Hailing from Belgium, Paul Raymaekers has an engineering degree in electro-mechanics as well as a degree in industrial Management. more...
Lance Robb
Lance Robb started diving in the early 1970's and has remained an avid diver throughout the years. Like many others, Lance's passion started as a snorkeler and his first SCUBA dive was on a homemade set made of WWII bomber oxygen tanks back when SCUBA systems were not readily available and very expensive. more...
Martin Robson
Martin, a former Royal Marine Commando, began diving with the military in his late teens. He is now one of the best qualified Tec Diving Instructor Trainers in the world, teaching courses with PADI, IANTD and TDI, as well as both of the major Cave Diver training agencies, NACD and NSS-CDS. more...
Richard Stevenson
Richard Stevenson is a professional diver living on the South Coast of England and working worldwide as an underwater camera man, Diving Instructor, MCA yacht master and Dive Supervisor. more...
Peter Szyszka
Peter Szyszka is among the elite of diving professionals worldwide having achieved Instructor Trainer status with 6 training agencies - PADI Course Director, TDI Instructor Trainer for all courses including Trimix, DSAT Trimix Instructor Trainer more...
Richard Taylor
Richard Taylor was one of Australia's first Technical Diving Instructors and Instructor Trainers, diving Nitrox since 1992 and Trimix since 1994. With over 20 years experience in Technical Diving he was Australian Regional Director for Technical Diving International (TDI) from 1995 to 2008 more...
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