TEKDiveUSA.2016- April 22nd-24th, 2016 Miami - General Information and Speaker Lineup

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TEKDiveUSA.2016 speaker Evan Kovacs-
Evan Kovacs has been working in the marine environment for nearly two decades as a diver, boat captain, director of photographer and camera engineer. He has been involved in numerous expeditions utilizing remotely operated vehicles (“ROVs”) and submersibles to survey and film everything from theR.M.S. Titanic to deep sea hydrothermal vents. Evan not only builds camera and lighting systems for these jobs, he is one of the few professional cinematographers qualified to use these systems at depths to 500 feet (152 meters) using scuba equipment and 14,750 feet (4,500 meters) using manned submersibles and ROVs. His underwater and topside work can be seen on National Geographic, History Channel, Discovery Channel, PBS (Emmy nominated for videography in 2009), CBC, NHK and elsewhere.
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Come hear from world record holder Gemma Smith at TEKDiveUSA.2016 on our Women in Technical Diving Panel!

 

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There has never been, nor will there ever be a diver quite like dive pioneer, Tom Mount.
TEKDiveUSA Tom Mount - TEKDiveUSA.2016 Speaker- Miami, FL April 22-24th, 2016
Come hear tales from a lifetime of diving at TEKDiveUSA.2016 panel discussion on the history of technical diving.
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Almost every diver thinks about bubbles in relation to decompression sickness, but many would be surprised by the gulf between what is held to be true and what is really known. Come hear TEKDiveUSA.2016 presenter, Neal Pollock discuss the current state of knowledge and technology. http://tekdiveusa.com/decompression-induced-bubbles-known-unknown-implications/

 

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Krzysztof Starnawski will be presenting on some of the deepest, most extreme cave diving projects happening on the planet. He will discuss the organization of his cave expeditions and the use of dual sidemount CCR and underwater habitats. His underwater drills and dry caving techniques have led to unique dive plans and he will discuss in depth how he deals with non-standard decompression profiles. The presentation will include information and amazing photographs of expeditions in Hranice Abyss (265m/869ft deep,) caves Albani (240m/787ft deep,) Sac Actun in Mexico (113m/370ft,) and Cetina Croatia (110m/360ft.) Krzystof has an amazing collection of imagery that is sure to inspire all levels of divers. See more here- http://tekdiveusa.com/new-technologies-explorations-deep-caves/

 

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The schedule for TEKDiveUSA.2016 is up! Come check all of the presentations we have planned. Jill Heinerth, Steve Lewis, Gemma Smith and Phil Short Technical will present a panel discussion highlighted by their recent return to the Bell Island Mines and the war wrecks that defined the geography of Canada.
http://tekdiveusa.com/newfoundland-war-came-canada/

 

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Interested in sidemount? Steve Lewis will be presenting on Sidemount Simplified. Sidemount diving: open or closed circuit. Some out there still eye it with suspicion, and remains for them it remains mysterious and misunderstood. Really! Hey, it’s just another way to carry cylinders of compressed gas, folks. Nothing magical, and in many ways safer and more useful than any alternative. So, if you disagree with that last statement, come and let him try to change your mind.
http://tekdiveusa.com/sidemount-simplified/

 

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Come join TEKDiveUSA.2016 presenter Matt Vinzant in Miami, April 22nd-24th, 2016. Matt is passionate about caves, both flooded and dry. He enjoys all aspects of caving; sidemount, no mount, deep, long range, siphons, silty, sumps, vertical and survey. He has actively participated in cave exploration throughout the southeastern United States for the last 15 years.If Matt is not underground, underwater, or ridge walking he is modifying or building equipment to overcome the challenges of cave exploration.

Read more here- http://tekdiveusa.com/speaker-lineup/matt-vinzant/

 

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This presentation was standing room only in 2014 so get your tickets early!TEKDiveUSA.2016 presenter Dr. David Doolette will be presenting on Helium penalties. divers are beginning to dive with higher fractions of helium, and even heliox. These divers find that some popular decompression algorithms can prescribe a greater amount of decompression for a heliox bounce dive than for a corresponding bounce dive conducted breathing trimix or nitrox. Is this extra decompression really required? To answer that we will review the evidence, from the first heliox dives in the 1930s through to recent experiments.
Helium Penalty? - TEKDiveUSA

 

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A breathing apparatus is necessary if you want to breathe underwater. How do you know that it easy enough to breathe on it? Does your rebreather actually give the right O2 level? Most of such answers can be had from test with breathing simulators, water and pressure chambers.TEKDiveUSA.2016 presenter, Dr. Dan Warkander will explain how some of the tests are done and illustrate human tolerance to breathing resistance.Scrubber Monitoring & Work Of Breathing - TEKDiveUSA

 

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Join Cristina Zenato at TEKDiveUSA.2016 April 22nd-24th, 2016. Tickets are on sale now. Cristina will be presenting on The Zodiac Connection- a recent discovery in this cave system in the Bahamas.
Zodiac Connection - TEKDiveUSA

 

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The schedule is up! Come check out all of the presentations we have planned! TEKDiveUSA.2016 presenter Brian Kakuk will be speaking on a passion project- Beneath a beautiful, pine-forested island in the Northern Bahamas lies over 10 miles of nature’s most exquisite and time wrought underwater caves. Known as the Crystal Caves of Abaco, these systems have been explored by a handful of explorers beginning in the mid 1990’s. At first a very well-kept secret, the location of these caves was kept close to the vest by those who were lucky enough to experience their densely decorated crystal passages.The fight for Abaco Island’s Crystal Caves National Conservation Area.
The fight for Abaco Island’s Crystal Caves National Conservation Area - TEKDiveUSA