Speaker Details

Educator & Explorer

Website:	http://ProTecDiveCenters.com
E-Mail:	patrick@protecdivecenters.com

About Patrick Widmann

Patrick Widmann, born in Austria, has spent the last 13 years living in Mexico exploring caves and teaching cave diving. He is one of the owners and the training director at ProTec Dive Centers. Patrick is an educator, explorer, public speaker and the co-designer of the xDeep Stealth 2.0 sidemount system. He is on the board of advisors of PSAI and an Instructor Trainer Evaluator who also helped to develop their CCR Cave Class. Patrick has explored and dived caves in 14 different countries on the planet. Since 2014 he has lead annual expeditions to Madagascar where the team has discovered and explored several stunning and vast underwater cave systems. They have also been credited with the discovery of important paleontological remains which was covered by 78 news outlets around the world including CNN, NBC, Washington Post, Nat Geo among others.  The team is also credited with discovering and exploring “Anjanamba”, currently the longest submerged cave system of Africa with 10+km of surveyed cave passage.