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SPEAKERS
As an informative and entertaining forum dedicated to the full spectrum of diving activities, OZTeK'09 will again feature many of the world's leading authorities in their respective fields of diving expertise.
On track to become one 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 might be interested in presenting papers at the Conference are invited to contact the Convenors 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...
Jesper Berglund
Jesper Berglund is a GUE Instructor and the Training Director for GUE's recreational programmes.
Jesper is based in Stockholm, Sweden and mainly dives and teaches in cold water. However, cave diving and especially the cenotes and vast cave systems of the Yucatan peninsula remain his favorite dives in the world so far.
Jesper has always been very passionate about teaching new beginners to dive and from 2007 Jesper has been spearheading the development of GUE's Recreational curriculum. Apart from teaching for GUE, Jesper is also a business development consultant and a designer/writer of television shows and online entertainment.
Leigh Bishop
Leigh Bishop is a world-renowned deep shipwreck explorer. His specialist deepwater photography alongside his own research has led to the documentation and discovery of many famous shipwrecks. more...
Mark Caney
A diver since 1976, Mark Caney established a dive centre in Cyprus in 1980 after leaving the British military, and was based on the island for eighteen years. He was one of the first to adopt technical diving techniques in the European area. more...
Craig Challen
Craig Challen is a Veterinary Surgeon in Perth by profession but this is only to support his enthusiastic pursuit of technical diving. Beginning diving in 1994 he progressed to cave diving in the late 1990s. Craig was one of the early adopters of closed circuit rebreather technology in Australia more...
Andrew Cronan
Andrew Cronan has been scuba diving for 22 years in locations across the globe, during which time he has shot, edited and published over 100 hours of underwater video documentaries; producing footage that has been shown on Australian, Russian and Chinese television. more...
Salih Murat Egi
S. Murat Egi was born in Istanbul, Turkey and has been a diving Instructor since 1986, During which time he has certified more than 2000 divers at different levels. He is an Electrical Engineer (BS), and completed his MSc and Ph.D. studies on Biomedical Engineering. more...
Richard Evans
Originally hailing from California and now living in Australia, Richard Evans served in the US Navy during the Vietnam conflict, followed by 12 years as a police officer in Los Angeles. He holds a degree in the Administration of Justice and has been employed by PADI for the past fifteen years.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...
Max Gleason
Max Gleeson is one of Australian's most experienced wreck divers, logging thousands of decompression dives over the last 30 years. NSW's leading authorities on the state's shipwrecks he has written 4 books on the subject. more...
Karen Gowlett-Holmes
Born in England in 1959, Karen migrated to Australia with her family in 1965, and lived for many years in Adelaide, South Australia, where she attended school and college, graduating from the University of Adelaide in 1980 with a BSc in botany and zoology more...
Grant W. Graves
Grant has been freediving since he was six and diving for over 28 years having completed over 5,600 dives. Growing up in Malibu the waters of Southern California were his playground. Grant has a BS degree in marine biology from Long Beach State. 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...
David Harasti
Dave Harasti is a marine scientist in Australia who has been working on threatened marine species (sharks, seahorses and fish) for the past 10 years. Dave is currently doing his PhD in his spare time on the conservation of seahorses and more...
Jill Heinerth
Jill Heinerth is an explorer. Her curiosity and photographic skills give us a tantalizing peek at a breathtaking world few will ever experience. 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...
Greg Hodge
Greg first learnt to dive in 1980 while studying with the US Navy at Mare Island, California. After a long break he has returned to recreational and technical diving with renewed passion. more...
Trevor Jackson
Trevor Jackson is arguably Australias' most experienced dive boat captain. For 13 years he operated the famed Esperance Star out of Brisbane, researching and locating more than a dozen previously unknown shipwrecks. more...
Richie Kohler
Richie Kohler's passion for technical scuba diving and maritime history has led him to explore some of the most challenging and dangerous shipwrecks in the world, including the Andrea Doria and HMHS Britannic. Exploring lost ships has led him to locate and help name numerous lost vessels more...
John Lippmann
John Lippmann began diving some 35 years ago and developed an avid interest in deeper diving. He has been involved in researching, teaching, writing and consulting on safe diving, decompression and accident management for the past 30 years.more...
Richard Lundgren
Founder of Scandinavia's, Baltic Sea Divers and Ocean Discovery diving groups, GUE (Global Underwater Explorers) Training Director, Richard Lundgren has participated in numerous underwater expeditions worldwide and is one of Europe's most experienced trimix divers more...
Jeff Maynard
Jeff Maynard is an author and documentary-maker who enjoys recording little known aspects of Australia's history. He commenced diving in 1987 and shortly after began researching the history of diving. more...
Warrick McDonald
Introduced to SCUBA diving in 1961 on a Dutch Navy twin-set, Warrick McDonald retains his undiminished enthusiasm for an activity that has dominated his life.more...
Pete Mesley
Pete's passion for diving started in the cold English waters over 16 years ago. This is where his "Lust for Rust" was created and from then onwards he has dedicated himself to researching more...
Agnes Milowka
It didn't take long for Ag to become hooked on blowing bubbles - after her first underwater breath she thought 'this is what I want to do with my life!!' It probably helped that her first underwater experience was at Ningaloo Reef in WA, nonetheless since then diving has been at the very centre of her existence. more...
Dr Simon Mitchell
Simon is an anesthesiologist and diving physician based in Auckland, New Zealand. His diving career has spanned many disciplines including sport, scientific, commercial, and military diving. He remains an avid diver, and uses a Mk15.5 closed circuit rebreather to pursue his interest in deep wrecks. more...
Martin Parker
Managing Director and owner of Ambient Pressure Diving, (manufacturers of the Inspiration and Evolution rebreathers) and A P Valves, (manufacturers of the Buddy range of buoyancy compensators) Martin Parker developed the Buddy range of jackets more...
Des Paroz
Des Paroz is a Sydney-based diver, underwater photographer and instructor. His passions in diving include underwater photography, wreck diving, and sharing the underwater world with others. more...
Mark Ryan
After learning to dive in 1986 in Melbourne, Mark became an Instructor in 1995. His technical diving career started in 1990, when as an active club member Mark arranged decompression dives on sites like the Euro & Piggott in Melbourne's Shipwreck Graveyard. more...
Karl Shreeves
karl Shreeves, MA, is Technical Development Executive for PADI (Professional Association of Diving Instructors) and DSAT (Diving Science and Technology). He designs and develops diving, marine science and CPR/first aid instructional materials as a writer, commercial photographer and subject matter expert more...
Carl Spencer
carl Spencer has been fortunate enough to dive on some of the coolest shipwrecks around the world and been involved with several marque projects and television productions. more...
Dr Mark Spencer
Mark Spencer has been diving since 1975 and taking photographs underwater since 1978.
He originally took a camera underwater to identify the strange new creatures he was discovering and to learn more about them more...
Rick Stanton
Cave explorers generally fall into one or other of two categories; technical divers who dive in flooded caves but rarely leave the water, and cavers who dive but treat the flooded section as a barrier more...
Richard Taylor
Richard Taylor is the Regional Sales & Training Director for Technical Diving International (TDI) and Scuba Diving International (SDI) for Australia, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, East Timor more...
Steve Trewavas
Steve Trewavas was spear fishing before he left primary school and began to scuba dive at the age of 15 in the temperate waters of New Zealand. He has been exploring the underwater world ever since. more...
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