SPEAKERS

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 and underwater videographers.

With more than 4000 dives to his credit - including cold-water dives, wreck, cave and technical dives using stage deco techniques, specially mixed gases and diver propulsion vehicles - Richard is an accomplished photographer and filmmaker with a contagious passion for discovery and exploration.

A founding member of GUE - and an active instructor since the birth of the organization - Richard Lundgren was a member of the GUE expeditions to dive the 'Britannic' (sister ship of the ill-fated Titanic) in 1997, and again in 1999, where he served as project leader, camera diver and exploration diver.

In 1995, he established the Scandinavian technical diving group, "Baltic Sea Divers", an organization involved in numerous projects to explore mines and caves in Sweden, Norway and Finland. In 1997, in arctic conditions, he performed the longest cave dive ever carried out in Scandinavia.

Richard's other exploration work has included the 1999 filming of the famous submarine, M1, for the BBC; the side scan sonar surveys of the Spanish gold galleons, outside Florida's, Key West in 2000; and the search for the Admiral's Fleet, an on-going project that has already led to the discovery of more than 40 virgin wrecks perfectly preserved in the cold waters of the Swedish Baltic Sea.