#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.