current scientific diving profile

Scuba Diving PROFILE: GUE OW+ PD Instructor | photogrammetry + scientific + cave1 + tech1 diver

700+ scuba dives (max depth 51m, max time 205 mins)

  • Professional: GUE OW+PD Instructor (2025) | STCW and RYA L2 Powerboating (pending)

  • Technical: GUE Tech 1 (2025), Cave 1 (2024) | Oxygen Provider + wilderness first aid (2025) | Sidemount (2022)

  • Practical: GUE: DPV 1, Scientific, Photogrammetry | SRT dry cave (2024), Polar scientific diving course (pending)

  • Freediving: PFI Freediver (2022), static apnea 4 min, constant weight / free immersion max: 25 m

experiences

  • Phreatic Organisation - project diver, Gulf of Orosei, Sardinia

    Active and current volunteer for Phreatic, participating in projects and applying for grants. 

    Topside expedition support and bio-speleology (Locoli)

    Cave cartography (Cala Luna), cave photogrammetry (del Fico), eDNA collection and research (Bue Marino)

    Documentation, social media, outreach, GUE C1

    Grant applications, project co-ordination, NGO growth

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  • Global Underwater Explorers Global Project Co-ordinator (2024)

    GUE HQ project management (science, archaeology, exploration, media) around the world

    Project Co-ordination: Project Portal reports and resources, Project Diver curriculum development, safety

    Media: SDSS, Project Baseline, GUE, Halcyon, AVATAR

    NextGen Legacy Project and Global Scholarship lead

    Marketing, outreach, e-learning, events, Rec1 and PD internships

    see example

  • Shark and Technical Cave Diver, Freeport, Bahamas (2022)

    Training with diver Cristina Zenato concerning shark conservation and cave exploration.

    Caribbean Reef Shark Handling Course

    Measuring individual sharks using laser photogrammetry

    TDI Sidemount, Cavern and Cave 1 diver

    Afterwards completed the PFI Freediver course (cold water LA kelp forests) with Lance Lee Davis

    see website

  • TAJRC in Red Sea Ecology, KAUST, Saudi Arabia (2021-2022)

    Research specialist (field and laboratory technician), and scientific illustrator, TAJRC lab.

    Scientific scuba diving, Niskin / hydrophone deployments, mesophotic reefs / mangrove measurements / miniDOTs

    Website communications, social media, scientific illustrations for journals and books

    Field plans, procurement, clownfish monitoring

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  • Four Seasons Resort, Kuda Huraa, Maldives (2020-2021)

    Worked as a Reefscapers Marine Biologist for the Marine Savers ‘Marine Discovery Centre’.

    Led snorkel trips for turtles / mantas / sharks

    Coral propagation scuba diving projects

    Turtle rehabilitation, cetacean ID cruises

    Report writing, presentations, outreach activities

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  • Marine Action Research, Zavora Lab, Mozambique (2019)

    University-funded (Zochonis travel award) marine biology and Divemaster internship.

    PADI Divemaster qualification, beach clean ups

    Nudibranch and predatory fish surveys

    Benthic community quadrat sampling

    Humpback whale land-based surveys

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