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Jarrod Jablonski

Jarrod is President and C.E.O. of dive equipment companies, Halcyon Manufacturing and Extreme Exposure. He is also the President and founder of, Global Underwater Explorers (GUE) and is regarded as one of the world's most capable and talented exploration divers. Actively engaged in conservation, exploration, and filming projects worldwide, his explorations regularly take him in the world's most remote locations. Jarrod is also a fellow member of the Explorers Club.More Information >>

Casey Mckinlay

Casey McKinlay is a renowned aquatic explorer with more than 20 years of active research and discovery experience. Casey is currently responsible for directing all operations for the Woodville Karst Plain Project (WKPP) which is the most active and successful cave diving exploratory project in the world with more than one hundred members.Casey’s professional experience includes various positions as well as his current position as Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for Halcyon Manufacturing, Inc.;
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Eduardo Pavia

Living in Rome Eduardo Pavia is one of Italy's leading deep wreck divers. Eduardo has been a key member of several well known deep wreck expeditions throughout Europe in recent years. On two separate occasions he was a lead cameraman operating high def camera systems deep inside the 120m deep Britannic in the Aegean Sea. Around Italian waters he has explored many significant shipwrecks including the amazing first class Ocean Liner the Viminali.

Phill Short
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Regarded by many as one of Europe's foremost technical diving instructors Phill Short runs his own technical diving company specializing in advanced diver training to all levels. He was a development diver for both the VR3 computer and the Ouroboros Closed Circuit rebreather. When he is not instructing or testing equipment he runs expeditions to seriously remote locations such as eastern Russia where temperatures are well below freezing. At heart he is a cave diver and has to his credit explored some of the toughest caves in Europe. More Information >>

Teresa Telus

Teresa is the leading deep wreck diving woman in the world and has been a key member of several major expeditions. She has dived Britannic in 2003 where she ran longer bottom times than her male counterparts. She has also joined expeditions to deep wrecks such as the Lusitania, the Egypt, HMS Vandal and many others. Teresa spends most of her diving exploring wrecks in the English Channel where she has dived countless new virgin wrecks. An experienced speaker on the topic of expedition diving she will deliver an all new presentation at Eurotek on an expedition she recently joined to explore deep wrecks of Truk Lagoon. . More Information >>

Martin Parker

Martin is the managing director of Ambient Pressure Diving the British company that designs and builds the Evolution and Inspiration closed circuit rebreathers. Martin dives his own units and was a key member of the History Channel Britannic expedition in 2006. Based in Cornwall England he often takes time out to explore virgin wrecks locally often in depths that require mixed gas and technical diving techniques. More information >>

Evan Kovacs

Evan Kovacs is one of the worlds leading underwater specialists in high definition camera work. He started his filming career in 2003 on the History Channel's underwater adventure series, Deep Sea Detectives. In addition to ‘DSD’ he has had an ongoing filming relationship with the Emmy award winning Lonewolf Documentary Group, and more recently with Woods Hole Oceanographic. More information >>

Dr Geriant Ffoulkes Jones

"Geriant is an expert in decompression management. During the 1990's he was instrumental in the formulation of decompression planning for the early open circuit deep expeditions to Britannic and Lusitania. He went on to formulate closed circuit tables and bail out strategies for deep wreck projects such as the Egypt and the 2003 National Geographic Britannic Expedition where he dived them himself. More recently he provided inputs used during the Carpathia project. Geraint spent many years diving with the Starfish Enterprise deep wreck diving team and is still an active diver today. At EuroTek he will run workshops on the practical aspects of decompression planning and logistics." More information >>

Richie Kohler

As the co host of the Deep Sea Detectives show on the history Channel Richie Kohler has dived in some unusual places around the world. A wreck diver of two decades before he began a carr ear in television he spent many dives on the US East coast diving virgin wrecks as well as the Andrea Doria. Richie is a true wreck diver however spends a lot of his time now traveling the world for either exploration of deep shipwrecks or instructing divers how to use closed circuit technology.
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Danny Huyge

Danny is a deep wreck diver living in Belgium who is passionate about his underwater video work. Danny uses High Definition camera equipment to capture quality footage of shipwrecks in and around Europe. just returned from filming the much talked about HMS Victoria off Lebanon sunk in 140m depth. Several television company's have contacted him about his work recently which also includes some amazing filming of the Leopoldville. Danny will talk about diving and filming HMS Victoria at EuroTek.
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Kevin Gurr

Kevin Gurr was there at the beginning of technical diving and has remained active in the concept ever since. Kevin dives himself both on shipwrecks and in caves and was one of the first Trimix instructors in Europe. A marine engineer by trade his company are responsible for the design and development of many advanced diving products such as the VR3 computer and both the Ouroboros and Sentinel closed circuit rebreathers. Kevin knows everything about technical diving and will be on hand at EuroTek.08 to assist in workshops and clinics as well as displaying Delta P products.
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John Lamb
Being an active diver since 1988, with the introduction of mixed gases he formed Vandagraph Ltd (1993) as an offshoot company specifically focused on the recreational diving industry. Vandagraph supplies Teledyne oxygen sensors to several re-breather manufacturers and has concentrated exclusively on the manufacture and distribution of gas measurement products priding itself on reliable service and technical support.At EuroTek John will run a workshop on the subject of sensors. more information >>

Richard Stevenson

Richard Stevenson has been involved in deep wreck and cave diving since the early 90’s when he first began to use mixed gases before turning to closed circuit systems. He was trained to be an Instructor in the mid -90's and has been responsible for training instructors himself since 1998 and continues to do so on a regular basis. Rich gained his qualifications after years of exploratory diving and relies on this experience when running Technical level courses. He has explored seriously deep shipwrecks such as the Carpathia as well as major wrecks like the Transylvania, Britannic and Lusitania. At EuroTek.08 he will run workshops on specific areas of advanced diving.
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Ric Waring

Ric is known throughout the North of England as one of the leading deep wreck divers in the UK. He was the first person to dive the famous Carpathia the ship that rescued the Titanic survivors at 150m depth 250 miles off shore in the Atlantic Ocean. In 2007 he returned to the wreck with his own expedition and a European team made up of some of the most experienced deep wreck divers. Ric was also a member of the 2003 National Geographic Britannic expedition, back on home ground he regularly goes in search of virgin wrecks especially in the North of England.

Jeff Cornish

Jeff Cornish is a UK technical diver who has been diving deep wrecks for many years. Recently he joined Ric Warings expedition to the famous Carpathia. At EuoTek.08 he will relate the expedition and talk about the planning and safe execution of the dives. Jeff runs his own expeditions in search of virgin wrecks and spends much of his time diving either in the English Channel or off Northumberland. Jeff was with the teams that dived the Tuscania, Transylvania, Andania and the Amazon all seriously deep ocean liners in the North Channel and Atlantic Ocean.
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Dan Burton

Dan's career spans a variety of genres and specialties. His professional photographic qualifications and on-going experimental photography work is complemented by his additional skills as a highly proficient and experienced deep-sea technical diver. This combination of skills has given Dan access to some of the most exciting and unusual photographic shoots ever seen. His work includes some early pioneering technical wreck dives, such as the recovery of US$50 million work of silver from the El Cazador at a depth of 90m. More Information >>

Fabio Ruberti

Fabio Ruberti is a leading Technical diver based in Italy and has been the organiser of many expeditions and heads up IANTD in Italy. He will present at EuroTek on the Szent Istvan – La corazzata dell’Impero a technical diving film made with English subtitles especially for EuroTek. The film has won awards at the 34éme Festival de l’Image Sous Marine of Antibes (France), at 11th International Underwater Film Festival of Belgrade (Serbia) and at 7th HDSI Underwater Film Festival (Italy).
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Peter Mesley

A south African living in New Zealand Peter is regarded as one of the southern hemispheres leading technical divers. He has dived wrecks such as the famous Niagara and more recently discovered and identified the deep wreck Port Kembla off New Zealand. Pete is a specialist when it comes to the wreck of the Mikhail Lermontov and no one makes deeper penetrations into ocean liners that today lie on the seabed. Pete also runs various expeditions in and around the south hemisphere particularly the Pacific Ocean and is also a regular key speaker at the Oztek Conference.

Doug Friday

Doug is the director and owner of Taras, a company specialising in underwater camera housings, techniques and systems developed for extreme and technical diving. Having moved from the UK to Australia in 2002 he has been very active on the Technical Diving scene down under. Doug used his camera equipment to film a major Australian push in the famous Cocklebiddy cave and will present on the subject at EuroTek.
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Bill Smith

Over the years Bill Smith has found dozens of wrecks including the wreckage of the famous Blue Bird in which Donald Campbell lost his life on Coniston lake when attempting the water speed record in the 1960s. He also found vital evidence for the famous lady of the lake murder investigation, if its there Bill can find it. Bill has written extensively on wreck location techniques and has been a key member of many significant expeditions. In 2003 his team joined Carl Spencer's National Geographic expedition and discovered the mine field that sank the Britannic. Recently Bill has been working on the location of a wreck in the arctic.
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