FEATURED SPEAKERS

#APE 8TH MONTHLY VIRTUAL EVENT 2021 SCHEDULE – SEPTEMBER SERIES

#TekDiving101 Becoming a Better Tek Diver
Tips on Trimix & Rebreathers

Speakers:
Jimmy Choo [Singapore] Founder of Red Scuba, SSI TXR Instructor Trainer, PSAI Instructor Trainer, RAID Technical Instructor Trainer, Megalodon & Poseidon CCR Instructor and GUE Instructor

Jimmy Choo started his diving career during his national service in the Naval diving Unit back in 1990. After he graduated from his basic diving course, he decided to join the Naval diving unit as a professional diver. In 1992 he was chosen to train with one of the toughest special Force unit in the world – the US Navy SEAL. During his service, he was called upon for one of the most massive underwater search and recovery tasking in 1997 – Silkair flight 185. During his service in the force, he has been chosen to work with different diving units worldwide. Jimmy is also an Instructor Trainer in the Naval Diving Unit and has been training both Naval Diver and Special Force diving team. As for his recreational diving experience, Jimmy started with SSI as an instructor, and then he works his way up to SSI Technical Instructor Trainer. He didn’t stop pursuit diving education and soon he becomes an instructor trainer at all levels with SSI, IANTD, TDI, RAID, and PSAI. Currently, as a diver he has more than 9000 logged dives under his belt and he is a GUE Tech 2, Cave 2, and a GUE Instructor. He has been teaching mostly GUE since he became a GUE Instructor. He is also a specialist in wreck diving.

Jimmy Choo chooses mainly to teach the GUE course is because he like the GUE system due to its holistic approach toward diving safety. Jimmy always believes that “Diving isn’t a course or a lesson. It’s more than that: Diving is a method, a philosophy, a way of life”.

Marc Crane [UK/Indonesia] SSI XR International Training Director, TDI Advanced Mixed Gas CCR Instructor Trainer, rEvo, APD, XCCR, KISS, Poseidon Instructor, Managing Director of TekDeep Asia and Diving Safety Supervisor Unseen Expeditions Scientific Research Projects

Hailing from the sunny south coast of England, Marc learned to dive while on work experience from school, after immediately getting addicted he joined the local scuba club. Turning Pro in 1996, Marc has spent more than 2 decades diving and teaching globally, with a primary focus on all things rebreather since 2005. He is an SSI XR International Training Director as well as TDI IT, he teaches throughout Asia from his home in Bali. Marc has been involved in a variety of deep reef and cave expeditions in Indonesia and has been with Unseen Expeditions since their inception.

Jeffrey Glenn [Australia/Thailand] PADI Course Director, TecRec Instructor Trainer, TDI Instructor Trainer, RAID Instructor Trainer, OC / CCR Advanced Trimix IT, Advance Wreck IT, RAID Cave 2 / TDI Full Cave Instructor, JJCCR / XCCR / SF2 Instructor, GUE C1 / T1 Diver

Jeff Glenn is an instructor trainer with the three largest dive agencies on the planet.  With an illustrious resume as a PADI Course Director, a TecRec Instructor Trainer, a TDI Instructor Trainer to Advanced Trimix, a TDI Advanced Wreck, TDI Full Cave and JJ-CCR/SF2 CCR Instructor and a RAID Instructor trainer as well, Jeff is easily one of the most qualified PADI Course Directors in Asia. Jeff has been diving since the early 90’s, starting his professional career as a PADI Divemaster in Airlee Beach, Australia and has logged thousands of dives worldwide. Jeff has focused the last 15 years of his career on the professional and technical diver and instructor development and is extremely passionate about technical diving in particular.

Robin Cuesta [France/Indonesia] IANTD Diving Instructor, Cave Instructor and Explorer, Triton Rebreather Instructor and General Manager of Sulawesi Dive Trek

Robin Cuesta is the only active Technical Cave Diving Instructor currently operating in Indonesia. He started exploring caves in Sulawesi three years ago and has never stopped since then. His passion had led him to unravel unexplored caves all over the country, from Sumatra to Papua passing by Java and Sulawesi. He recently opened the first “Rebreather, Technical and Full Cave Diving Training Center” in Indonesia, and helps to develop cave diving interest and education among the local community through the Indonesia Cave Diving Association.

#ADEXOceanHeroesOcean Matters
Ocean Hero of the Month (September 2021)

Speaker:
Hidy Yu [Hong Kong SAR] ADEX Ambassador for Marine Conservation, Actor, Model

Hidy started her modelling career when she was just 18, quickly moving on to acting where she starred in eight films. Diving for 13 years, she became a qualified Dive Instructor Trainer by the National Association of Underwater Instructors (NAUI), thereafter being named the NAUI Worldwide Ambassador. At the same time, she is a qualified SSI Dive Instructor. Finding her passion for the ocean, she became the 2011 Miss Scuba International Ambassador.

Green Fins Diver e-Course

Speakers:
Sam Craven [Philippines] Programmes Manager, The Reef- World Foundation

The Journey to World-Record in Freediving

Speaker:
Alexey Molchanov [Russia] Co-founder of Molchanovs, FreeDiving World Champion

Co-founder of Molchanovs, an international brand leading the world of freediving in education, training programs, and premium freediving gear production. Alexey is also the president of the Russian Freediving Federation, a freediving World Champion, and holds multiple national and world records.

Alexey, along with his mother Natalia Molchanova, the world’s most titled freediver, founded the Molchanovs brand in 2010. Their focus was on developing high-quality equipment and an education system with the aim of taking students from a beginner level to an elite freediver level.

Alexey’s current records are 131m in Constant Weight, 126m in Free Immersion, 118m in Constant Weight Bifins, and 96m in Constant Weight No-Fins, 258m in Dynamic with Monofin, 195m in Dynamic No-Fins.

#PIXEL101
Conversation with the Masters of Underwater Photography
Compact Camera

Speaker:
Tim Ho [Malaysia] ADEX Ambassador for Underwater Photography (Compact Camera), Underwater Photographer

Tim left the city in 2009 to become a full-time dive instructor, today he sees himself as just “full-time diver”. If he’s not teaching dive courses, he’s working as a videographer on a liveaboard. If he’s not making videos he’s taking photos and writing articles for magazines. In between all that, he’s organising specialised “Dive and shoot” trips for people who want to do 2 hours long dives with the best guides and spotters available. Tim’s working adventures have based him across Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia over the past years while he is currently set to spend the coming year in the Philippines.

Moderator:
Adam Hanlon [UK] Publisher & Editor-at-Large, Wetpixel

Adam Hanlon is an underwater photographer captivated by the challenge and beauty of the underwater world and passionate about its conservation. His images and reports have won international competitions and been used in prestigious publications and by world-renowned organizations. He grew up in South Africa, learned to dive in the mid-1980s and has been pursuing a career “beneath the surface” ever since. He holds recreational and technical diving qualifications up to instructor level from many agencies and dives very regularly. 

He is the editor of Wetpixel, the worlds leading resource on all things underwater imaging and through Wetpixel Expeditions, Adam leads regular photography expeditions and workshops around the world. He also owns a successful dive school based near Lancaster, UK. 

#PIXEL101
Conversation with the Masters of Underwater Photography
Capturing Stories that Connect Us to Water

Speaker:
Zena Halloway [UK] Artist, Photographer and Conservationist

Zena Holloway (1973) is a self-taught, British photographer best known for her distinctive images of people and animals in underwater environments. Her photographic career spans the last thirty years and features in a wide range of publications including National Geographic, Dazed&Confused, Paris Match, How to Spend it, Harpers Bazaar, GQ, Vanity Fair, The Observer, 125, Stylist, Quintessentially Magazine, JFW, Twill, Vision, Neon, Schon, Cent magazine and The Sunday Times.

Her underwater photographic projects have a common narrative that connects people to water and increasingly promote environmental awareness and conservation. In the Hidden Rivers series, she explores the ugly truth of pollution and over-extraction in rivers across Europe, whilst in Seawomen she celebrates the unique knowledge and deep understanding that the Haenyeo of South Korea have for the oceans they harvest. As a keen climate activist, Zena is interested in material science and the biological products and processes that are set to shape our world in the future. In Rootfull she has pioneered a method of cultivating grass to grow in moulds – carved from beeswax. The process channels grass-root into patterns that become speculative coral sculptures. It’s an ongoing, green-art, project created in a bid to expose the beauty and vulnerability of coral and to highlight the devastating bleaching events that are killing vast areas of coral reefs around the planet. Zena lives in London with her husband and their three children in a converted MOD torpedo testing centre.

Moderator:
Adam Hanlon [UK] Publisher & Editor-at-Large, Wetpixel

Adam Hanlon is an underwater photographer captivated by the challenge and beauty of the underwater world and passionate about its conservation. His images and reports have won international competitions and been used in prestigious publications and by world-renowned organizations. He grew up in South Africa, learned to dive in the mid-1980s and has been pursuing a career “beneath the surface” ever since. He holds recreational and technical diving qualifications up to instructor level from many agencies and dives very regularly.

He is the editor of Wetpixel, the worlds leading resource on all things underwater imaging and through Wetpixel Expeditions, Adam leads regular photography expeditions and workshops around the world. He also owns a successful dive school based near Lancaster, UK.

In Conversation with David Strike
Shop Talk with Richard Nicholls

Speaker:
Richard Nicholls [Australia] PADI Course Director, Dive Store Owner, Former Equipment Wholesaler and Underwater Photographer

Dive store owner, former equipment wholesaler, and Underwater videographer,  Australian- based, Richard Nicholls is a PADI Course Director, and one of the handfuls of pioneers who helped popularise the recreational use of Nitrox, SCR’s, and Technical Mixed gas diving in Australia in the early ’90s. An active proponent of the need for increased marine protection, he was a key driver in establishing Cabbage Tree Bay, on Sydney’s Northern Beaches, as a No-Take Aquatic Reserve, a place described by both locals and visitors alike as being one of the world’s premier shore-diving sites.

 

Moderator:
David Strike [Australia] ADEX Ambassador For Technical Diving, Pioneer & Fellow of The Explorers Club

With a background in military, commercial, recreational and technical diving, David Strike is a regular speaker and presenter at regional and international diving events.  A former Field editor for Asian Diver Magazine who has authored several hundred articles about diving and organised several world-class technical diving events, he is the recipient of the ADEX ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ for contributions to Technical Diving, and a Fellow of the Explorers Club of New York.

The Dive Media

Speakers:
Bernie Chowdhury [USA]

Bernie Chowdhury is the founder and co-publisher of The International Technical Diving Magazine. A world-class diver, Explorers Club Fellow, an author, and a recognized expert on extreme sport diving, he also makes documentary films and is a frequent lecturer.

 

Simon Pridmore [UK]

Over the last 25 years, Simon Pridmore has pioneered mixed-gas deep diving in Asia and has been involved in technical diver training, exploration and equipment manufacturing. Today, he writes books for divers, most recently “Scuba Exceptional – Become the Best Diver You Can Be” and “Dining with Divers – A Taste for Adventure”. 

 

Peter Symes [DENMARK]

Hailing from Denmark, with a Master’s degree in Biology and Media & Communication, Peter Symes is a former research scientist specialising in aquatic ecology and ecosystem modelling and restoration and is the founder, editor-in-chief and publisher of X-Ray Magazine and AquaScope Media.

 

Michael Menduno [US]

Michael Menduno is an award-winning reporter and technologist who has written about diving and diving technology for 30 years and serves as the executive editor of Global Underwater Explorers’ (GUE) new blog “InDepth.” He coined the term “technical diving.” 

His magazine “aquaCORPS: The Journal for Technical Diving (1990-1996) helped usher tech diving into mainstream sports diving. He also produced the first Tek, EUROTek and ASIATek conferences, and organized Rebreather Forums 1.0 and 2.0. Michael received the OZTEK Media Excellence Award in 2011, the EUROTek Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012 and the TEKDive USA Media Award in 2018.

 

John Thet [Ocean Citizen]

Publisher/ Editorial Director ASian Geographic, Scuba Diver AustralAsia, Scuba Diver Ocean Planet, Asian Diver and The founder of underwater360 (ASIA’s LEADING DIVE HUB) & online media “uw360.asia”

 

Moderator:
David Strike [Australia] ADEX Ambassador For Technical Diving, Pioneer & Fellow of The Explorers Club

With a background in military, commercial, recreational and technical diving, David Strike is a regular speaker and presenter at regional and international diving events.  A former Field editor for Asian Diver Magazine who has authored several hundred articles about diving and organised several world-class technical diving events, he is the recipient of the ADEX ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ for contributions to Technical Diving, and a Fellow of the Explorers Club of New York.

Underwater Photography
Tips & Tricks


Speaker:
Mathieu Meur [Mauritius] Co-Author of “An Essential Guide to Digital Underwater Photography”

Mathieu has been capturing the beauty of the underwater world for over 30 years. A true pioneer, Mathieu was one of the early adopters and promoters of digital technology for underwater photography, authoring the first PADI digital underwater photography speciality course in the world in 2001. Mathieu went on to contribute regular columns on photography techniques to dive and photography publications.  In 2004, Mathieu co-authored “An Essential Guide to Digital Underwater Photography” with Michael Aw.  This was the first book entirely dedicated to the techniques associated with shooting digital underwater.  The book was met with an overwhelming response and was quickly sold out, requiring an updated version to be published in 2005.  Following the success of this introductory book, he went on to co-author “An Advanced Guide to Digital Underwater Photography” with Michael Aw in 2007.  Mathieu has also published a comprehensive and interactive e-book on underwater digital photography, “Complete Digital Underwater Photography”, in 2013 with a revised edition in 2020, and another titled “Everything on Underwater Photography” in 2014. Mathieu is a regular speaker at dive events, judge at underwater photography competitions, and coach at underwater photography workshops. Find out more at http://underwater.studio

A to Z
Human Factors & Diving


Speaker:
Gareth Lock [UK] Founder and Director of The Human Diver, OE Technical and JJ CCR Diver

Gareth has been involved in high-risk work since he left school in 1989. He spent 25 years in the RAF in a variety of front-line operational, research and development and systems engineering roles which has given him a unique perspective. In 2005 he started his dive training with GUE and is now an advanced trimix diver (Tech 2) and JJ-CCR Normoxic trimix diver. In 2016 he formed The Human Diver with the goal of bringing his operational, human factors and systems thinking to dive safety. Since then he has trained more than 350 people face-to-face around the globe, taught nearly 2000 people via online programmes, sold more than 4000 copies of his book Under Pressure: Diving Deeper with Human Factors, and produced ‘If Only…’ a documentary about a fatal dive told through the lens of Human Factors and a Just Culture. His goal, bring human factors practice and knowledge into the diving community to improve safety, performance and enjoyment.

ABOUT #APE 8TH MONTHLY VIRTUAL EVENT 2021

Connecting the global dive industry, blue economy sectors and its community all in the comforts of your own home!

#APE ADEX Pixel Expo resumes with a monthly fringe festival by divers, for divers with exciting “virtually” interactive and engaging activities, such as ADEX Underwater360º Virtual Expo and ADEX Bingo! [COMING SOON!] that aims to bring dive-minded divers together over a united cause – diving and the ocean!

Organised by the digital platform for ADEX Asia Dive Expo, ADEX Pixel Expo, #APE 8th Monthly Virtual Event 2021 celebrates the diversity of the ocean and its diving landscape, with a series of events happening on the 8th of each month, with an aim to bring trending dialogue and deep-rooted tales on the pulse of scuba diving, with inspirational guests and insightful stories!

Plot your interest, save the dates!

8 JULY, THURS
Descending Deep into East Asia: Exploration into Diving Disciplines, Destinations, and Beyond

8 AUGUST, SUN
Descending Deep into South-East Asia: Exploration into Destinations and Diving. Plus, MAJULAH SINGAPURA

8 SEPTEMBER, WEDS
Delving into Dive Safety & Diving Courses

8-10 OCTOBER, FRI-SUN
LIVE! ADEX Dive Bazaar • Asian Geographic UW & Watersports Bazaar

8 NOVEMBER, MON
Descending Deep into West & South Asia: Exploration into Diving Disciplines, Destinations, and Beyond

8 DECEMBER, WEDS
Going Diveaholic with UW Equipment & Dive Gear

ORGANISER

ABOUT UNDERWATER360° 

Underwater360° (UW360) is the umbrella platform that represents every major pillar of diving across Asia and the world. Since 2010, the platform hopes to hurdle together over 25,000,000* divers community globally through curating content and services that offers ‘everything one needs to know about exploring the world of water. Gathering the dive community, together with the whole diving industry, underwater360 provides informative, up-to-date, exciting information, all of which is easy to digest on the go such as their three magazines titles, a massive dive expo and a lifestyle, infotainment, directory and networking hub called ‘Diveaholic by underwater360’ for all the underwater enthusiasts out there. For more information, please visit www.uw360.asia.

* Source PADI Global Certification & Membership Statistics 2017

ABOUT ADEX 

More than just an annual dive show, ADEX Series is inspired by the past and aims to lead the present and impact the future. The Asia Dive Expo (ADEX) is the largest and longest-running dive consumer and trade show in Asia, celebrating its 25th year in 2019. ADEX is endorsed by major industry organizations such as the Diving Equipment and Marketing Association (DEMA) and China Underwater Association and has been recognized as “Best Exhibition Organiser 2018” by the Singapore Tourism Board. ADEX was also recently appointed by the United Nations and Asia-Pacific Diving communities as Sustainable Ocean Ambassador. Underwater360 group has managed the event since 2009, resulting in significant growth and establishing ADEX as a must-attend event for anyone interested or involved in the world of diving. ADEX 2019 will take place in Singapore in April; in Shanghai and Beijing in July; and in Mumbai, India, for the first time in October. For more information, please visit www.adex.asia

ABOUT ADEX PIXEL EXPO

“ADEX Pixel “Virtual” Expo is the product of COVID-19 pandemic and also the next stage for ADEX after 25 years. This platform will be the virtual/online arm to the existing ADEX series of shows as we hope to unite the industry as ‘One Industry. One Ocean. One Community’ and, also hopefully to be ‘The World’s First Digital Dive Show’!” 

– John Thet, CEO of ADEX series of shows, Project Director of ADEX Pixel “Virtual” Expo, Publisher and Editorial Director of Asian Diver, Scuba Diver Australasia/OceanPlanet, Founder of Historical Diving Society Asia, and President of Magazine Publisher Association of Singapore [MPAS] 

Connecting the global dive and marine conservation industry, blue economy sectors, and its community, ADEX PIXEL “Virtual” EXPO (#APE) brings together with the world’s best dive influencers, thought leaders, industry key players – speakers and exhibitors, NGOs/NPOs, social enterprises from the global landscape on ONE platform through new monthly contents that entertain, educate, and engage. #APE delivers informative contents, interviews, LIVE! webinars and podcast series, an expansive marketplace, community forum, a stunning image gallery showcasing 2,021 underwater images from all over the world, and more exciting elements – all in the comforts of your own home! For more information, please visit www.adex.asia

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