Tell us about your background

I learned to dive with the British Cave Diving Group because I was a dry caver who wanted to pass flooded sections of caves. For more than three decades since I’ve followed a parallel path of open water diving and training, becoming an Instructor Trainer in all areas of technical diving, specialising in Closed Circuit Rebreather use for ocean, cave, and mine diving. Career highlights include leading a three-month expedition in southern Mexico to map previously unknown caves, and working as Diving Safety Officer for scientific institutions including Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, the United States National Parks Service Submerged Cultural Resources Unit and the University of Lund.

What’s your role at DEEP?

Underwater Research Diving and Training Lead. I am the in-house expert on diving and diving operations. My role at DEEP is to support research and innovation, engineering, DEEP Institute, and commercial and business development. I use what I’ve learned over more than 30 years of diving and teaching others to dive to advise on the design, engineering, manufacture, testing and classing of our underwater habitats.

What's your favourite thing about working at DEEP?

The team and the camaraderie. When I started at DEEP there were a small group of us that knew each other personally and on a daily basis interacted to progress the journey of achieving DEEP’s mission. As we have grown in numbers as an organisation this has remained and we still work side by side with driven like-minded individuals towards the mission to ‘Make Humans Aquatic’ via the world's first suite of classed sub-sea habitats.