Lloyd is a modern-day underwater pioneer with a passion for delivering innovative environmental, educational and scientific adventure projects. Lloyd can adapt his presentation to any audience – whether as a guest speaker at a university or giving a motivational presentation at an annual conference. He uses his knowledge as an experienced adventurer to help others achieve their own personal goals and succeed in their own "harsh" environments back home.
Michael's remarkable career as one of the world’s leading undersea explorers began in 1988. For 20 years Michael has pursued a parallel professional development track in both scientific and commercial diving in his home waters of New England, the Caribbean and Antarctica. Michael's undersea work spans academic and private sectors including numerous university marine programs and work with private engineering firms.
Nick is a marine scientist, qualified underwater pilot, underwater cameraman, a wildlife conservation film-maker and creator of Borneo Sharkarma and an Emerging Explorer. Nick originally from Wales in the UK, now resides in Borneo, where he promotes shark conservation and marine awareness.
Rod is well known as a technical diver and diving author with 7 books to his name to date. After visiting the scuttled German WWI High Seas Fleet wrecks at Scapa Flow and falling in love with Orkney, he wrote his first book, 'Dive Scapa Flow', published in 1990, now in its 4th edition. 'Dive Scotland's Greatest Wrecks', 'Dive England's Greatest Wrecks' were followed by 'Into the Abyss: Diving to adventure in the Liquid World' and his latest book, Force Z shipwrecks of the South China Sea was launched in March 2013 at the OZTeK Australian Technical Diving Conference in Sydney. The first print run sold out within 4 months.
In 2004, South African Verna van Schaik broke her cave diving record of 186 meters, finally achieving the all-time depth record and making a place in the Guinness Book of Records for the Deepest Woman on Scuba. Her dive to 221 m (725ft) took over five and a half hours and at the time, placed her in the top ten deepest divers in the world