OPERATIONAL CAPABILITY
DEEP Expeditions would be impossible without the DEEP in-house, multi-disciplined Expeditions Team.
Subsea operations and expeditions are by their very nature diverse, different and demanding. In the past twelve months alone, our submersibles and crew have been deployed in support of major environmental studies and blue-chip media productions.
The DEEP Expeditions Team comprises world-class free-divers; technical, cave and recovery divers; submersible pilots and experienced offshore operators.
Developing Sentinel brought with it a new set of demands for diver training, so the programme encompasses elements of free-diving, closed- and open-circuit, and saturation diving. DEEP Expedition Divers benefit from a breadth of experience rarely found.
Operational Expertise
DEEP’s Expeditions team comprises renowned experts in multiple fields of diving and offshore operations.
STEPHEN TOFT
Director, Expeditions & Safety
Stevie’s career spans police, submarine rescue and commercial diving activities through which he is known for his pragmatic and rigorous approach to safety.
Dr MARK GLOVER
Expeditions Medical Lead
Mark was the Medical Director of the Hyperbaric Medicine Unit, Royal Hospital Haslar and St. Richard’s Hospital, Chichester. He is widely respected for his expertise in hyperbaric medicine.
PHIL SHORT
research Diving, Training lead
Phil has logged over 6,000 hours dive time, with over half of those on Closed Circuit Rebreathers. Phil is widely considered to be one of the worlds most respected rebreather and cave diving educators.
LIZ COURT
Operations & Systems Test Diver
Liz was a captain in the British Army before she became a SCUBA diving instructor where her love of the water finally drew her to commercial diving. There, she gained experience in civil engineering, film services, shipping and offshore wind farms.
ADAM LOWNDS
Operations & Systems Test Diver
Adam is a highly-experienced operational commercial diver with a wide experience, and field of expertise across the discipline. The last 10 years has seen him training as a diving superintendent, supervision & diving management with experience spanning offshore oil & gas, renewables, civil engineering, UXO, film & media.
JONATHAN DOLAN
Operations & Systems Test Diver
Jonathon is a qualified saturation diver and has worked in almost every industry; windfarms, pipelines, oil and gas support, media, recreational and training. He also helped develop large scale elastic mooring systems, including automating the manufacturing process from the ground up.
NICK MITCHELL
Operations & Systems Test Diver
Nick’s experience comes from a extensive tenure within commercial diving, primarily undertaken as a saturation diver within the North Sea oil and gas industry. Nick has accumulated experience in diving management, diving supervision and implementing diving safety standards across the defence diving domain.
MATT DIXON
LIFE SUPPORT SUPERVISOR
Matt has worked in commercial saturation diving as a Life Support Supervisor in many different locations worldwide, supporting subsea construction and hyperbaric welding. His interests include marine archaeology and hyperbaric medicine.
LAURA MACE
LIFE SUPPORT TECHNICIAN
Laura has a wealth of experience in hyperbaric medicine. In more recent years, she has worked for a hyperbaric tunnelling team, which involves the same principles as diving but for miners working in compressed air environments underground.
BARRY McGOWAN
SUB OPS LEAD
Barry has decades of experience working with ROVs and manned submersibles. He has been a team member on multiple research missions.
Asset Management & Technical Team
Responsible for managing all assets; planned maintenance and certification requirements to continually assure the safe-to-operate status of all assets.
STEVE ABBOTT
ASSET AND TECHNICAL MANAGER
Having spent the last 19 years in the subsea/diving industry in roles of Senior Dive Technician, Asset/Equipment Manager, Site Manager and Operations Manager, Steve brings a well rounded pragmatic approach to delivering safe projects.
ANDY BONE
SENIOR EQUIPMENT TECHNICIaN
Andy has spent the last 12 years working offshore as a Senior Electrical Diving Technician, most recently the last 3 and a half years in Brunei on the DSV Kreuz Challenger.
ASH BRYCE
EQUIPMENT TECHNICIAN
Ashley started his career in diving back in 2003 running one of the biggest dive sites in the UK. During his career he has gained a wealth of knowledge in the maintenance, testing and repair of dive equipment. Since starting at DEEP he has continued to build on this knowledge and help maintain, support and repair equipment used in live operations.
NAT TAYLOR
EQUIPMENT TECHNICIaN
As part of the Asset team Nat supports Expeditions by maintaining and repairing the equipment used to complete operations.
With thanks to:
- a. Deep-owned Triton 3300/3 submersible diving in the Maldives, supporting Nekton and Omega
- b. Headshot of Mr. Oliver Steeds OBE.
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