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Spent four years in the U.S. Marine Corp from 1981-1985 as a Combat Engineer Took up diving full time in 1994 and become a PADI OWSI Technical diving with ANDI in 1995, Instructor Trainer at almost all levels. ANDI I.T.D (Instructor Trainer Director) in 2011 Worked with the Thai Navy operating there hyperbaric chamber. logged over 480 hours of hyperbaric treatments, treating both DCI and healing wounds. Trained the Philippine government/ military hyperbaric chamber operator / tender course. Worked with World record depth record divers on warm up dives to 260 meters. Trained Thai Navy EOD department Inspiration level 2 and 3. Appointed NSS CDS Safety Director for Thailand I.T.D.#15 |
Instructor: IANTD, HH Instructor Mixed gas (normoxic trimix)
His current Certifications are as follows:
- ITDA Instructor Trainer CCR
- CMAS Instructor Trainer CCR
- TDI CCR Instructor
- ITDA Trimix Instructor Trainer
- CMAS Trimix Instructor Trainer
- TDI Trimix Instructor
- PADI Trimix Instructor
- ITDA Full Cave Instructor Trainer
- CMAS Full Cave Instructor Trainer
- TDI CCR Instructor
- TDI / IANTD CCR Cave Instructor
Michael Thornton started diving in 1998 and has been an addict ever since. Michael first became a tech diving addict when he completed his Advanced Nitrox and Decompression Procedures to start cave diving at an early age of 15 with his brother and father. He went on to complete his Advanced Trimix and Closed Circuit Rebreather certifications shortly after.
Michael speaks fluent Spanish and can teach any course with translated materials.
Michael most often teaches at the world class dive facility Dive Addicts (www.diveaddicts.com) and in the caves of Florida (cavecountryloding.com). He is also available to travel and teach worldwide especially in Spanish speaking countries.
Michael conducta cursos en español y está dispuesto a viajar.
Title: CTO, Lead Design Engineer
Skype: erichilty
Eric has been with the Juergensen Companies since May of 2011, and strives to continue the Juergensen legacy of innovation, quality and safety our customers have come to expect in our product designs.
Eric obtained his Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering with concentrations in Machine Design and Controls from West Virginia University December of 2008. His design experience ranges from large machinery and processing lines to small kinematic linkage and automated assemblies. He has even dabbled in large site plan and topology design.
In his spare time he enjoys mountain biking with his wife, hiking with his dogs and playing his guitars. He also enjoys tinkering on small projects and on rainy days becomes a serial TV on DVD series watcher.
Monitor Trimix TDI/PADI/IANTD
Instructor Trainer SDI/TDI
Instructor CCR Hammerhead
- IANTD ITT
- IART IT
Overview … I have been diving for over 30 years and currently own and run Australia’s only completely Tec/RB dive store (no open water courses/gear etc.) The shop Southern Cross Divers (SXD) is located on Sydney Harbour with absolute water frontage to the depth of 25m, which is perfect for most of our training needs.
Current active Training agency Instructor ratings:
- BSAC Advanced Instr.
- PADI Master Scuba Instr.
- SSI Instructor Certifier
- IANTD Instructor Trainer Trainer
- IART Instructor Trainer and IART Australian Regional Office owner
- RAID Instructor
I have been diving RB units for approximately 18 years starting with the Drager FGG III. I was formally trained on RB’s back in ‘96 on a Drager Atlantis by Rob Palmer. I have been teaching on the RB units since ’98 when I purchased my first Inspiration from A P Valves.
The majority of my RB training is conducted via IART and IANTD.
SXD is by far the largest retailer of RB units in Australia and I personally have trained several hundreds of RB divers over the pass ten odd years to all levels.
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