Conference Speakers

Aaron Wong is one of the most published and recognised underwater photographer in Asia. With almost 2 decades of field experience, Aaron’s images and his trademark lighting techniques have won him international acclaim.  A Nikon and Seacam ambassador and memeber of the Ocean Artists Society, Aaron also serves as the field editor for ScubaDiver and the official ADEX Ambassador of Photography (International).

Ace Wu was born in Taiwan and currently lives in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Specialising in black background and wide-angle underwater photography, he is entirely self-taught. From a curious novice, he is now an experienced photographer. As such, when introducing underwater photography to beginners, he uses simple methods, ensuring the theory is easy to understand. His goal is to show the breathtaking beauty of the underwater world through his images.

Ahmed Gabr’s record scuba dive 332.35 metres into the Red Sea is the deepest ever. Making a stand for our oceans, he founded an organisation and mobilised 614 divers for the world’s largest underwater clean-up. As a technical diving instructor trainer he is backed by 20+ years experience in sport and military diving; an ex-Special Forces officer, a graduate of the US Combat Diver course, his passion for technical diving began soon after becoming a professional dive instructor in 1996.

Alan Lo is a commercial photographer based in Hong Kong and a scuba diving aficionado. He has been selected as one of the world’s top 50 underwater photographers under Blancpain’s Fifty Fathoms. Alan is the only spokesperson for Seacam Hong Kong, one of the World’s top underwater housing brands.

Alex is a commercial and technical diver. He and his PHILTECH team work in harsh and peculiar environments. Their unusual profiles allow him to study predispositions to DCS and develop in-water recompression methods for rapid treatment.

Alex also does deep recovery work for valuable objects and victims of drowning. His experience in body recovery has been called upon many times during disasters at sea, and he has trained recovery teams from the Philippines and from overseas.

Cave diving however is his true passion. He is a member of the Filipino Cave Divers, individuals who apply their diverse academic backgrounds in the study and preservation of underwater caves.

Alexey Molchanov has set the new Constant Weight (CWT) Freediving World Record. The freediving superstar broke his own AIDA World Record in Constant Weight (CWT) by diving to 129m in 3min 50sec. Despite strong currents, this record beat his previous World Record depth of 128m set in 2013 at the AIDA Depth World Championships in Kalamata, Greece.

Award winning Underwater Photographer and Expedition Leader Amanda Cotton melds the human element with the beauty hidden within our oceans in an effort to educate and empower others to become personally involved in the fight to maintain our precious, yet highly fragile aquatic ecosystems.

Dr Andrew Chin is a researcher at James Cook University, Australia. Andrew was born and raised in Singapore, and his connection to all-things-ocean began as a teenager while snorkelling at Tioman Island. It was there that he decided that he wanted to spend his life working on, and in, the water. After completing his degree, Andrew worked as a marine biologist on island resorts and live-aboards on the Great Barrier Reef, jobs that gave him amazing dive experiences and the chance to begin to ‘see’ how coral reefs ‘work’. Wanting to do more, Andrew then spent ten years with the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, the agency in charge of the Great Barrier Reef, before stepping across to James Cook University to follow his main passion: working for the conservation and sustainable use of sharks, rays, and tropical fisheries in Asia and the Pacific. Today, Andrew’s research covers shark and ray biology, ecology and conservation, and he’s spent the last two years tagging hammerhead sharks. He is also the programme director of Shark Search Indo-Pacific, a region-wide program to document shark and ray diversity and values, country by country. These projects are all collaborative, and Andrew works closely with Indigenous communities, commercial fishers, governments, and divers. He is a strong advocate for citizen scientists which he involves many of his research projects. Over the years, Andrew has won numerous awards for research excellence and science communication. He is the current president of the Oceania Chondrichthyan Society, a contributor to SportDiving Magazine, and is also an editor for the scientific journal Pacific Conservation Biology. In his spare time, Andrew reads, goes mountain biking, works as an Army helicopter escape training diver, and occasionally, attempts to play the ukulele.

Andrew Lim published his first underwater photography book, Silhouette of Serenity, at age 21. Having donated part of the proceeds to charity, he was also invited to meet the (then) President of Singapore, Dr Tony Tan, in recognition for his work. The 26 year-old TEDx speaker and former national rock-climber strives to capture and unleash the incredible beauty of people that only underwater photography can provide.

Andrew is a long time diver, photographer and writer.  His work has been published in a wide variety of media around the world, but his true love is writing books.  The first of these was Legends Beneath the Waves:  Truk Lagoon. This book was very well received and its success has led to an additional six books in that series being committed to, with the second book on Philippine wrecks being released at ADEX 2019.  Aside from the shipwreck books, Andrew also writes dive guides.  His guides focus on small areas and seek to take the reader diving in that location in their mind.  The first of these is Let’s Go Dive Guide to Anilao, which he created with partner Ram Yoro.  Two more of these guides will released in 2019.  Andrew lives in Beijing with his awesome wife Dalice and two daughters Elly and EJ “Doomy”.

Beatrice is an active technical instructor on both open circuit and CCR. She holds a Masters Degree in Marine Biology and Oceanography and in 2013 co-authored the book “Biodiving”, a reference guide to the marine life in the Mediterranean. When she’s not teaching, Beatrice gets involved in exploration and research projects.

Becky is a 5-time Emmy Award winner whose work can be seen on major TV networks worldwide. She creates compelling images that spark the imagination and inspire. She’s passionate about filming in caves, under ice, to deep shipwrecks and discovering new ways to capture the underwater world artistically. She is a frequent contributor to several dive magazines in the USA and Internationally. She’s a rebreather instructor and leads tech trips to exciting locations. She’s participated in several exploration projects which earned her a place as a Fellow in the Explorers Club and in 2013 she was inducted into the Women Divers Hall of Fame. www.LiquidProductions.com

Belgium Ben Reymenants is probably best know for his deep dives, his work in the diving medicine field and cave explorations. His career spans close to 3 decades under water and his exploits and teaching style makes him popular for technical courses. He owns a dive centre in Phuket Thailand where he runs technical instructor workshops and deep cave courses in the jungle. He is a fellow of the explorers club and he was part of the initial cave rescue team in the North of Thailand for which he was decorated.

Christian Vizl believes that photography is capable of real service to humanity, promoting empathy and initiating change, so my main purpose as a photographer is to create poetic images showing the incredible beauty of these animals knowing they carry the power of changing our perception and spark the love and empathy that we all have inside. First runner up of the International Photography Awards, Professional Nature Underwater category in 2017. Honorable Mention, International photography awards 2018, category nature underwater.

Dan Orr, President of Dan Orr Consulting, provides expertise to the global diving community. Retired from the position of President of Divers Alert Network, he has authored over 200 articles, books and manuals. He is the recipient of the NOGI Award and a member of the International Scuba Diving Hall of Fame.

The Conservation Manager for Scuba Junkie SEAS on Mabul Island, Sabah, Malaysia, David hails from Ireland where he gained his BSc Marine Biology and MSc Environmental Management & Conservation Biology at Queen’s University Belfast. He spent more than a decade working in conservation in Ireland, New Zealand and Malaysia. A former divemaster for Scuba Junkie, he has over 7,000 dives logged in SE Asia, including thousands as a guide at Pulau Sipadan. His current work includes raising awareness of marine conservation issues, as well as developing and implementing solutions.

David is a British engineer and founder of Dive Systems Ltd.  He started diving in 1985 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and switched to rebreathers in 2008.  In 2014, he set aout designing and building his own deep bailout rebreather which became the Proteus P3 multi-purpose eCCR.

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.

Dharshana Jayawardena is a pioneering solo underwater explorer in Sri Lanka. He is the author of Ghosts of the Deep – Diving the shipwrecks of Sri Lanka and has identified the origins of several mystery wrecks in Sri Lanka and discovered its first underwater cave system.

A research scientist in human performance optimization and risk mitigation for operators in extreme environments, such as those working undersea, at altitude, and in space, Dr. Dawn Kernagis completed her PhD and postdoctoral training at Duke University. Since 1993, she has led numerous underwater exploration and conservation projects around the world including the Wakulla Springs and its surrounding caves. She was selected as an inductee into the Women Divers Hall of Fame, Class of 2016. She was one of six crew members in NASA’s 21^st undersea mission, NEEMO, in 2016.

Dr Hutchinson has worked as a marine ecologist in the Asia-Pacific region for almost 20 years.

He is based at James Cook University in Singapore, coordinating the environmental science program and conducting research on coastal marine ecosystems.  Currently he studies near-threatened sharks and raises awareness of their status in Singapore.

Ellen Cuylaerts relocated from Belgium to the Cayman Islands in 2009. Having a master’s degree in modern history and education but ended up working in IT until she decided to home school her 2 gifted teenagers, relocating and taking up scuba diving in June 2011. Soon she became a Master Scuba Diver and combined it with photographing the wonders of the underwater world.

Her main drive is shooting images that draw the viewer in so an emotional bond is established between marine life and people involved in protecting our blue planet. Ellen received many awards for her pictures and was the 2013 World Champion in the yearly online underwater photo competition underwaterphotography.com June 2014 & again 2015 she became first and second in the United Nations’ World Oceans Day Photo Competition (which she now curates). Those competitions have helped her to make her voice in conservation louder and also to mentor more people to use their images to contribute to education, preservation and awareness. Ellen’s work can be seen in exhibitions in Paris, St. Petersburg, Valencia, Marseille and New York. June 2017 she addressed heads of State on World Oceans Day at the General Assembly of the United Nations highlighting the plight of photographers and filmmakers engaging in protection of the oceans.

As a Fellow Explorer International Ellen became a member of the Flag & Honors Committee of the Explorers Club, hence having a front seat at future explorations! She try to bring people together to work in a constructive way to ‘be the change you want to see’.

Eve Young is a freelance writer, Sea Shepherd’s Ocean Quest Trainer, and Ambassador for Swarovski Optik. She is also partnering with Swarovski Optik Marine Conservation Education Programme. She founded the MissVsea Marine Solution Workshop, where she organizes marine conservation forums, sharing research on marine conservation efforts and raising awareness for the protection of the ocean.

Gabriel earned BSc in Chemistry, BBA in International Business and MBA degrees from Harding University. He started diving in 1990 and is currently certified as a TDI Advanced Trimix Diver and dives a rEvo rebreather. Gabriel works as Shearwater’s Marketing Manager.

Gareth Lock is passionate about improving diving safety. Recognised as a human factors expert in diving, he has used knowledge and skills from high-risk domains to create and teach a globally unique programme which changes attitudes towards the causes of diving incidents and accidents thereby leading to safer diving

Gemma, has a PhD in Organic Chemistry and started diving after moving to Singapore in 2008 and was immediately hooked. She loves the sea and diving gives her the opportunity to travel and explore the world. Gemma decided to follow her real passion for teaching, not only she is a certified tech and cave diver, but she also became the first female GUE instructor in SE Asia. She has been actively introducing GUE recreational programs to Singapore and other parts of SE Asia for 3 years.

Born in Nice, Guillaume has broken several records, earning a world championship title in deep-sea freediving (-126m), Guillaume continues to explore the human limits and the unknown world of the deep-sea. He writes and creates images that combine aesthetic style and high performance, such as Free Fall, Ocean Gravity and his latest project, One Breath Around The World.

Asia’s most internationally published underwater photographer, Imran Ahmad has been capturing the magnificence of life below and above the water’s surface for over 20 years. Known for his experimental photography with light and motion, Imran spends much of his time as a professional photographer giving presentations promoting photography in all its aspects.  He leads exclusive photo trips, runs photo workshops on wildlife, creative, conservation, underwater and travel photography around the world.

Through her photography she hopes to share not just the beauty of the underwater world, but reflect the natural behaviour of marine creatures and raise awareness of how fragile the environment can be. Indra’s passion for her wildlife was ignited at an early age by Sir David Attenborough, who she finally got to meet in person when she won the underwater category of the BBC/Natural History Museum Wildlife Photographer of the Year.

At just 23 years old, Jade Hoksbergen, is an up-and-coming underwater photographer, model, and travel journalist from a highly international background. Her distinctive style of capturing the underwater macro world is largely influenced by her art and painting, and while she only started underwater photography in 2015, her work has already been honoured in several competitions including the prestigious UPY. Her work has also been internationally published. She is currently based in the Philippines and shares a love of the sea with her husband, Henley Spiers.

Jill Heinerth is a veteran of over thirty years of filming, photography and exploration on projects in submerged caves around the world with National Geographic, NOAA, and television networks worldwide. She is the Explorer in Residence for the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, recipient of Canada’s prestigious Polar Medal and the diving world’s highest award from the Academy of Underwater Arts and Sciences. Partnering with Penguin Random House in Canada and Harper Collins in the US, Jill will soon be releasing four new major-market, non-fiction and children’s books.

Jim loves extreme sports and underwater photography perfectly combines adventure and art creation. Since starting underwater photography in 2008, Jim strives to capture transient beautiful moments more precisely every time he dives. Up to now, his works have won 43 domestic and foreign awards and been published in magazines and newspapers. He has also been interviewed by notable publications such as British Daily Mail and Apple Daily.

Former holder of several French records in deep-sea free diving (-68m), Gautier expresses herself through her underwater cinematography. The Reunion Island native shoots unique images in apnea, using her artistic flair and the infinite freedom of her movements. Top-side, Gautier is an author and a director. Her sensitivity explains her attraction to the world of fiction, as shown in Narcose.

A former TV Artiste, Kent in love with the ocean after his first dive. Quitting his job to focus on diving, he became a diving instructor and is now an underwater videographer and creative director.  He plans to bring a creative underwater video production to the commercial market.  He has collaborated with TV  broadcasting companies and different media outlets to bring his creative vision to the public.

Laurent studied marine biology, which culminated in a Master’s degree. He discovered a species of fish hitherto unknown in the Western Mediterranean. Combining his passion for underwater photography with his work as a biologist, Laurent has won numerous awards, and has been featured in international publications.

His book, 700 Sharks Into The Dark, provide astonishing testimonies of life, death, innocence and violence in the heart of sharks packs in French Polynesia.

A trip to the Palau in 2006 triggered her passion for the underwater world. Following the oceans with her cameras, her passion for travel, diving and underwater photography, especially macro objects, has not abated and will be with her for the rest of life. Her works have won 53 domestic and foreign awards and have been published on German Hörzu Wissen magazine, American Nature’s Best Photography magazine, Daily Mail ,Taiwan Apple Daily, TVBS, Yahoo NEWS, Kairos NEWS among others. In the field of underwater photography, she hopes to capture more beautiful pictures and share her works with friends who love oceans.

Mark Rausch, (HAS) Handicap Scuba Association Course Director, a Michigan native, started travelling the world, putting Handicap Scuba Association (HAS) programmes into the lives of the people after his son was born with disability (and subsequently passed away.) This was so that they could enrich the lives of disabled individuals through the recreational sport of Scuba Diving. An old man once told Mark when he was diving in the Maldives: “A person can do great things, if they don’t care who gets the credit.”

Michael Menduno is an award-winning reporter and technologist who has written about diving and diving technology for 30 years. 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.

Nathalie Lasselin is a multi-award winning underwater cinematographer. As a technical diver and instructor, she has filmed and explored deep wrecks, caves and body of water in more than 50 countries including the arctic. Nathalie pursues better understanding of our planet through documentation and shares her concern for our fresh water resources through her films, articles in international magazines, and with event lectures. Her drive is to bring people together and empower them through better relations with their own environment ultimately for a higher quality of life. Her latest project Urban Water Odyssey embraces all her goals and philosophy.

Former Freediving champion Pepe Arcos is a full-time photographer and filmmaker. An award-winning, multitalented shooter, he captures unique images of ethereal calm that even the fastest scuba diver will fail to capture.

Pete is one of the world’s leading underwater specialist photographers. He focuses on capturing wide, panoramic images using various techniques in light painting, time exposures, stitching and offboard lighting

to capture large wreck and cave vistas. He works fulltime in the diving industry as a Technical Rebreather Instructor Trainer and is owner of Lust4Rust & Shock&Awe Big Animal Diving Excursions.

Growing up in archipelagic Philippines, Ram’s early love affair with the ocean led him to pursue a career as a scuba instructor and underwater photographer.  Based in Anilao, Ram is a pioneer and proponent of Bonfire Diving as a tool for documenting plankton. Part of the renowned Filipino Cave Divers and PHILTECH Dive Team, he is active in shooting underwater cave systems and wrecks in the Philippines. Ram co-authored with Andrew Marriott the Guide to Anilao, a comprehensive guidebook about diving in the area.

Randy Thornton, is a prolific explorer with an interest in cave and wreck diving.  As CEO of SubGravity, Randy is intimately involved with the design of closed circuit rebreather systems as well as other technical diving equipment.  As an instructor trainer for over 20 years, he travels extensively to offer training in various disciplines of technical diving.  Randy currently serves as a member of the TDI Training Advisory Panel and is in demand as a presenter at various technical diving conferences and events worldwide, including TEKDiveUSA of which he is a founding member.

Richie Kohler is an author and shipwreck explorer whose 40 years of diving experiences have taken him to all corners of the globe. These exploits have been detailed in documentary films and in a NY Times best-selling book, Shadow Divers, by Robert Kurson. Kohler hosted fifty-six episodes of the popular History Channel program “Deep Sea Detectives” and numerous other television programs detailing his explorations on some of the most famous shipwrecks in the world, including the Andrea Doria, RMS Titanic, and the HMHS Britannic. Utilizing submersibles and cutting-edge diving equipment, Kohler’s focus in underwater exploration has been on the human aspect of shipwreck tragedies, correcting fractured or missing history and in doing so, providing answers and closure to family members. Locating and identifying lost warships such as the USS Murphy, USS Lagarto, U-215 and U-869 and reaching out to these people has been the real reward in shipwreck exploration. Kohler’s recent work on a forgotten WWII submarine battle helped bring posthumous recognition to American Naval Captain in an award ceremony at the US Pentagon.

A fellow in the Explorer’s Club, Kohler continues to lead expeditions worldwide in search of lost ships and the mysteries they hold.  He has written numerous magazine articles about shipwrecks, deep diving and diver safety and in 2017, published his first book, Mystery of the Last Olympian detailing a decade of work on Titanic’s sister ship Britannic. Over the years he has made numerous presentations at schools, libraries, diving conventions and symposiums promoting diving safety, education and awareness.

Robert Scales is a Canadian living in Bali since 2011. He is the co-founder of Ceningan Divers and Ceningan Resort, a Green Fins eco-friendly PADI 5 Star Dive Resort based on a small island located on the east coast of Bali. Scales is a former media executive and college professor. He is passionate about sustainable development and conservation. Robert is a repeated ADEX speaker, over the past years he has shared his sustainable tourism and best business practices knowledge with our audience. He is the co-founder of the Trash Hero Ceningan chapter, they conduct weekly street, beach and mangrove clean ups. He describe himself as a simplicity expert, resort owner, scuba diver, dungeon master, renaissance man & bon vivant!

Robert Scales is a Canadian living in Bali since 2011. He is the co-founder of Ceningan Divers and Ceningan Resort, a Green Fins eco-friendly PADI 5 Star Dive Resort based on a small island located on the east coast of Bali. Scales is a former media executive and college professor. He is passionate about sustainable development and conservation. Robert is a repeated ADEX speaker, over the past years he has shared his sustainable tourism and best business practices knowledge with our audience. He is the co-founder of the Trash Hero Ceningan chapter, they conduct weekly street, beach and mangrove clean ups. He describe himself as a simplicity expert, resort owner, scuba diver, dungeon master, renaissance man & bon vivant!

Roger is a British, Emmy award-winning underwater cameraman, based in Sabah, Malaysia. Specialising in natural history filmmaking, Roger was one of the principal cameramen on the BBC’s recent Blue Planet II series. One of the notable sequences include a tusk fish exhibiting tool use. An underwater cameraman since 2001, Roger’s specialty is crafting complex, character-led stories .

Ronny Roskosch is a Diving Professional, deep sea commercial diver with almost 9000 working hours, sports diving professional pioneer as dive center owner, course director, examiner and handicapped diving with more than 30 years of experience and serves today as business consultant to mayor players and to the DEMA association.

Scott was first handed his underwater camera at the age of 16. Decades later, his passion for photography has brought him on amazing journeys. From throwing himself into a feeding frenzy to dangling off a line in open water at night, his photography has been recognised by the Palme D’or at Antibes festival for his book Anilao, which he co-authored in 2000. His latest books, Blackwater and Open Blue, have won awards and are sold out worldwide.

Shafraz Naeem, known to everyone as Shaff, started his diving career in 1994 and as an ex-military dive instructor and a PADI instructor, he has extensive knowledge of diving all over the Maldives. He trained the Maldivian Special Forces in diving, has explored and is exploring deep cave systems and deep reefs in the Maldives.

Sherin Tang, Miss Scuba International (Hong Kong), ADEX Mermaid Ambassador (Hong Kong) and second runner-up of the 2017 ADEX Mermaid Challenge, is an actress and performer with a glowing stage record. Previously a backup dancer for Hong Kong stars such as Aaron Kwok, Leon Lai and much more, currently an actress and hostess in movies, musicals, and TV shows. Sherin now promotes mermaids, freediving, scuba diving and marine conservation through her book on her ocean adventures as a mermaid. Sherin also took part in a TV show ‘Mermaid’ which broadcasted on Guangdong Radio and Television in 2018 Summer. Furthermore, she took part in a micro film shot by Kent Yeung about marine conservation in HK called ‘Dive. Hong Kong’ is shown in ADEX too.

Over the last 25 years, Simon Pridmore has pioneered mixed-gas deep diving in Asia and 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”.

Stephen Frink is among the world’s most frequently published UW photographers, with a career spanning four decades. He arrived in Key Largo, Florida Keys in 1978 to open a small studio, primarily renting underwater cameras and processing E-6 slide film; but he soon began to receive assignments to photograph and write articles for the consumer dive publications of the day. He worked as a photojournalist for Skin Diver magazine for 17-years, covering much of the Caribbean, Bahamas, and Florida Keys for the publication. Subsequently he worked as the Director of Photography for Scuba Diving magazine. Most recently, and for the past 8 years, Stephen has been the publisher of Alert Diver Magazine, a beautiful coffee-table collectible magazine for the members of Divers Alert Network.

Stephen teaches a Master class in underwater photography each summer in his home waters of Key Largo, Florida. Clients for assignment photography over the past 3 decades have included Scubapro, Victoria’s Secret, Aqualung, Oceanic, Canon, Nikon, Mercury Marine, Jantzen, R.J. Reynolds, Henderson Aquatics, American Express, Hanes, and Club Med. Rolex Watch Company has also engaged Frink for both endorsement and product photography.

Other Frink enterprises include a dive travel company, WaterHouse Tours, and a stock photo agency, Stephen Frink Collection. Stephen Frink Photographic is the North American distributor for SEACAM underwater photo equipment.  His studio and photo gallery are located at Mile Marker 101, Bayside, in Key Largo, Florida.

Steve Lewis is a best-selling author, expedition leader, and life coach. He has written several diving textbooks, has served as a training panel member for TDI and RAID, and is a product consultant for equipment manufacturers. A popular speaker and storyteller, this will be his first ADEX.

Sun Ping is an established photographer who has photographed celebrities such as Chen Weiting, Chen Xiao, Lily Yu and Zhang Xinyu. She has also shot for fashion magazines including Bazaar and Vogue. More recently, she ventured into underwater creative photography to express and share her love for the ocean.

Tobias Friedrich started taking pictures with a DSLR underwater in the year 2007. His Images have been published in prestigious scuba diving magazines and newspaper around the world. Several underwater photographic competitions, have honoured his work, resulting in over 50 awards with nearly 230 1^st places. Lately he has been names “Underwater Photographer of the Year 2018” in the prestigious UPY London competition. He is SEACAM equipment for his Canon EOS 1DX Mark II and 5D Mark ll DSLR.

Will Goodman is a TDI Advanced Trimix Instructor Trainer and experienced JJ ccr Instructor. He currently manages and teaches out of Blue Marlin Dive Tech in Gili Trawangan, Indonesia. He once held the Guinness World Record for the longest scuba dive and has logged over 5,000 dives. In 2014 he set the depth world record for the deepest ocean dive on a rebreather.

One of the pioneers of technical diving in China, Wu Lixin is a professional underwater photographer who has many accolades to his name. A contact photographer with Chinese National Geography magazine, he has filmed documentaries for China’s major television media such as CCTV. Lixin also works for National Oceanic Research Institute and the Underwater Archaeological Research department.

Y.Zin Kim is introducing high quality underwater photography and model training also working as commercial photographer. She has been working on photo shoots on TV shows, movies, advertisements, magazines over many years and she got World Records on First women SideMount Trimix 101m depth diving in 2015. Currently she is advertising and the East Sea of Korea and Jeju Island to abroad. and also promoting about culture of Hae-Nyeo (Sea women) worldwide from 2012. She was appointed Ambassador of the Year at the Asia Dive Expo in 2018. She is an influential artist who takes the lead in promoting Asia’s technical diving, marine conservation and maritime culture.

Yorko Summer is a well-known underwater photographer from Taiwan, with nearly 20 years of scuba diving experience.  Multi-talented Yorko aside from being an underwater photographer, is also a travel journalist, photography lecturer and highly sought after as photo competition judge at international shows.  He has collaborated with reputed brands, and has been invited by Marianas Visitors Authority as a Mariana Ocean Ambassador to promote these beautiful islands.

Yue Hong Jun began his journey into photography in 1984. He is currently a member of the Chinese Photographers Association, a member of the Royal Society of Photographers, and a deputy director of the Shenzhen City Entrepreneurs Photography Association. He has held several solo photography exhibitions in recent years, and many of his works have been nominated for and won awards at various national and international competitions.

Yvonne Press bio
• TDI Instructor Trainer, currently the only female at that level in South East Asia
• TDI Advanced Trimix instructor
• PADI TecRec instructor
• Currently managing Two Fish Tech in Indonesia with its main base in Amed, Bali

Diving development
• Became a diver in 2003 and have been working full time in the industry since 2010
• Originally teaching and guiding in Scotland
• Became a tech diver in 2011, inspired by shipwrecks being discovered off the east coast of Scotland in 40 to 60 m
• Moved to Asia in 2014 and started working in Bali
• Became a tech instructor and a cave diver in early 2015 in Thailand
• Joined Two Fish Divers in late 2015 to manage / improve business for the company’s tech diving department, including a move from Sulawesi to Bali
• Qualified as a TDI IT in late 2016
• Started exploring Belongas Bay, South Lombok for technical diving in 2016; continuing to explore these untouched reefs and cavern structures when teaching time allows