2021 Speakers

  • Brett Seymour

    Brett Seymour

    Brett Seymour is the Deputy Chief of the US National Park Service’s (NPS) Submerged Resources Center (SRC) based in Denver,…

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  • Randy Thornton

    Randy Thornton

    Randy Thornton, organizer of TEKDiveUSA, is a CCR Trimix Instructor Trainer and CCR Cave Instructor and serves as a member…

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  • Charlie Roberson

    Charlie Roberson

    Charlie Roberson is an attorney who lives and practices law in Gainesville, Florida.  Charlie learned to dive in 1991 while…

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  • Edd Sorenson

    Edd Sorenson

    Edd Sorenson (born October 17, 1959) is a technical cave diver known for numerous rescues of lost or trapped divers…

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  • Edd Stockdale

    Edd Stockdale

    Edd Stockdale dives, a lot; everywhere. He has spent the last decade exploring, teaching and working with research teams in…

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  • Pete Mesley

    Pete Mesley

    Pete's passion for diving started in the cold English waters over 25 years ago. This is where his "Lust for…

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  • Jo Mikutowicz

    Jo Mikutowicz

    Joanna is the owner of one of the Caribbean's largest Technical diving companies, Divetech.  Originally certified as an Open Water…

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  • Dave Conlin

    Dave Conlin

    Dave was born and raised in Boulder Colorado. After undergraduate work in anthropology and archeology at Reed College, he received…

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  • Richie Kohler

    Richie Kohler

    Richie Kohler is an author and shipwreck explorer whose 40 years of underwater research and shipwreck exploration have taken him…

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  • Maria Fotiadi

    Maria Fotiadi

    My name is Fotiadi Maria. I was born in Greece at 12 January 1990. I studied Archaeology and History at…

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  • Dawn Kernagis

    Dawn Kernagis

    Dr. Dawn Kernagis is a Research Scientist studying ways to optimizing human performance in extreme environments, including undersea, at altitude,…

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  • Tiffany Norberg

    Tiffany Norberg

    Tiffany Norberg has spent her entire diving career in the colder waters of Scandinavia and has a passion for the…

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  • Jared Hires

    Jared Hires

    Jared Hires is General Manager of Dive Rite, a premier technical dive gear manufacturer established in 1984. Having grown up…

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  • Tomasz Stachura

    Tomasz Stachura

    Tomasz Stachura is one of the most active wreck divers in the Baltic Sea. He specializes in deep underwater wreck…

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  • Simone Villotti

    Simone Villotti

    Simone started diving in 1992. In 1994 he added diving in his cave exploration. Exploration is a lifestyle for Simone,…

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  • Neal Pollock

    Neal Pollock

    Neal Pollock is an Associate Professor in Kinesiology at Université Laval in Québec, QC. He was previously Research Director at…

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  • Josh Thornton

    Josh Thornton

    Josh Thornton, co-organizer of TEKDiveUSA, has been diving for 23 years, and teaching for 17 of those. Josh took his…

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  • Patrick Widmann

    Patrick Widmann

    Patrick Widmann, born in Austria, has spent the last 13 years living in Mexico exploring caves and teaching cave diving.…

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  • Ryan King

    Ryan King

    Ryan started diving in 1990 and has never looked back. For over 25 years, Ryan has been diving, teaching, and…

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  • Erikos Kranidiotis

    Erikos Kranidiotis

    Erikos Kranidiotis was born in 1977 in Athens. He is half Greek and half British and spent many years living…

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  • Michael Thornton

    Michael Thornton

    Michael Thornton co-organizer of TEKDiveUSA, started diving in 1998 and has been an addict ever since. Michael first became a…

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  • Kees Beemster Leverenz

    Kees Beemster Leverenz

    Kees Beemster Leverenz is a GUE instructor with a decade of technical and cave diving experience. He is a passionate…

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  • SJ Alice Bennett

    SJ Alice Bennett

    With a background in event and documentary photography, SJ has a passion for creating images that tell a story –…

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  • Jon Kieren

    Jon Kieren

    Jon Kieren is a renowned cave, technical, and CCR instructor/instructor trainer who has dedicated his career over the past 11…

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  • Evan Kovacs

    Evan Kovacs

    A diver, passionate explorer, and underwater cinematographer, Evan Kovacs began is his underwater filming 2002 while working with the History…

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  • Andrew Pitkin

    Andrew Pitkin

    Dr. Andrew Pitkin learned to dive in 1992 in the cold murky waters of the United Kingdom and started cave…

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  • Stelios Stamatakis

    Stelios Stamatakis

    Born in Athens, Greece in 1978 he studied and obtained his degree in Mechanical Engineering and currently works in the…

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  • Natalie Gibb

    Natalie Gibb

    Natalie Gibb's passion in life is underwater cave exploration and conservation. With her exploration partner Vincent Rouquette-Cathala, she has lead…

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  • John Bentley

    John Bentley

    John Bentley is a reformed redneck who dropped everything when he learned to dive in college and switched the plan…

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  • Matt Vinzant

    Matt Vinzant

    Matt Vinzant has been infatuated with springs and caves his entire life. In 1998 at the age of 12 he…

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  • Jakub Šimánek

    Jakub Šimánek

    Jakub is a Liberty CCR Factory Instructor Trainer. He inherited the passion for underwater world from his father as a…

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  • Douglas Ebersole

    Douglas Ebersole

    Douglas Ebersole, MD is an interventional cardiologist at Watson Clinic in Lakeland, Florida as well as the Director of the…

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  • Vic Verlinden

    Vic Verlinden

    In 1993 Vic discovered the East India trader “ The Roompot” in the North sea. A homeward bound vessel that…

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  • Jill Heinerth

    Jill Heinerth

    Jill Heinerth is a veteran of over thirty years of filming, photography and exploration on projects in submerged caves around…

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  • Joshua Shouse

    Joshua Shouse

    Joshua Shouse is a Kentucky native that learned to scuba dive while in college in 2013.Josh quickly got into technical…

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  • Frauke Tillmans

    Frauke Tillmans

    Frauke Tillmans is the Research Director at Divers Alert Network (DAN). She has a degree in Human Biology and a…

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  • Dominic Housiaux

    Dominic Housiaux

    Dominic Housiaux is the Principal of Lankey & Limey Ltd. Offering Strategic, Creative, Safety Consulting, Technical, Production, and Labor Services…

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  • Marissa Eckert

    Marissa Eckert

    Marissa Eckert is a passionate full time technical diving Instructor and dive shop owner, specializing in cave, rebreather, sidemount, and…

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  • Matteo Ratto

    Matteo Ratto

    Matteo is a Technical Cave, Trimix & DPV Instructor Trainer, CCR and P-SCR Diver. He started diving in 2003 and…

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  • Stratis Kas

    Stratis Kas

    Stratis has been diving since 2001. With a truly global experience in diving, from South America to Hawaii, and from…

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  • Nate Garrett

    Nate Garrett

    Nate is a Naui scuba instructor trainer with 25 years of diving under his belt and a passion for the…

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  • Gareth Lock

    Gareth Lock

    Gareth Lock has spent the last 8 years focusing on the role of human factors and non-technical in diving successes…

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  • Rick Stanton MBE

    Rick Stanton MBE

    Cave explorers generally fall into one or other of two categories; technical divers who dive in flooded caves but rarely…

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  • Erika Boruff

    Erika Boruff

    You can find Erika Boruff on, in or under the water. She lives and works on a catamaran, in the…

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