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Phill Short www.phillshorttechnical.com
Phill started diving in 1990 from a background of dry caving
and climbing and at first completed a PADI open water diver
course in order to use SCUBA to pass short flooded sections
of dry caves in Mendip and South Wales. He then continued his
open water training through the PADI system with Course Director
Steve Axtell and in 1991 he qualified as a PADI instructor and
began teaching full time, working his way up to Master Instructor.
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During this period Phill began developing his
Technical Diving skills through training with Kevin Gurr and
in 1993 was involved in forming one of the first Trimix wreck
diving teams in the UK. He is now one of the UK’s foremost
IANTD Instructor Trainers.
Having spent 3 years developing his Technical skills, Phill
began to use them for cave diving, his true passion, on expeditions
to Mallorca (With the British Cave Diving Group), France and
Spain (With Cave photographer and film maker Gavin Newman).
At the same time, he began teaching technical diving full time
for Phoenix Oceaneering Ltd (Owned by Kevin Gurr.) |
Above; Phill Short mixing
gas cylinders in Russia |
| Over the years, Phill has been involved in filming projects
as camera assistant for ITV (Filming the underground features
of the Bristol area for 2 series of ‘Secret Underground’),
BBC (Filming the submarine M1 for ‘Historic Shipwrecks’
and the exploration of the Cueva del Agua sump ‘The Road
to Certain Death’ in Northern Spain for ‘Extreme
Lives’ and Channel 4 (Filming the shipwrecks from the
battle of Jutland for ‘Clash of the Dreadnoughts’).
And recently filming the Caves of Mallorca for the forthcoming
BBC series Oceans. |
Phill Short using open circuit
for a cave dive in Russia |
He has also taken part as a closed circuit rebreather
diver in several shipwreck search projects including ‘Pilar’
in Guam, Western Pacific and ‘Margarita’ in the
Gulf of Mexico.
He has also lead a series of cave exploration projects in both
the Ural and Caucus Mountains in Russia and digging underwater
in his pet project Swildon’s Hole in the Mendips UK. |
| Phill has been diving professionally for 15 years and has
logged over 5000 dives in caves and open water using both open
and closed circuit equipment, and has trained groups as diverse
as The Strathclyde Police underwater search unit and BBC presenters
and film crew. And over the last few years has become heavily
involved with manufacturers such as VR Technology Ltd. and Fourth
Element as a product tester and advisor. |
Above: Phill Short
in the Norwegian Arctic (click on any image to enlarge to original
size)
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