Dave Tipping is a technical dive instructor specialising in rebreathers and deep-wreck diving. Full time Dave is a paramedic based on the Surf Coast in Victoria, Australia, he has 16 years of technical diving experience, including a decade as a technical dive instructor, teaching courses up to trimix on the JJ-CCR rebreather.
In 2023, he led a team of technical divers who played a pivotal role in identifying the USS Ommaney Bay wreck, a Casablanca-class escort carrier located in ~120 meters in the Sulu Sea in the Philippines. The expedition, made possible thanks to the efforts of Sea Scan Survey, prompted the US Navy to formally recognize the site as a war grave. Join Dave at OzTek to hear his insights into deep wreck exploration with a team, technical diving and identifying historical wrecks.