oya

Gender:

Male

Birthday:

Oct 13, 1975 (Age: 45)

Home Page:

http://www.xoc-ha.com

Location:

Akumal, MX

Occupation:

Full-time circus staff

Gender:

Male

Certification Agencies:

PADI, NAUI, SDI, TDI, IANTD, NSS-CDS, NACD

Dive History:

I started by doing PADI's DSD program. Twice. Then I actually got certified, doing my checkout dives in Mexico. Started diving in a crappy Virginia rock quarry. "To keep my skills up," I thought. Then I started racking up dozens upon dozens of dives in that cold-ass water.

Got Cavern certified in North Florida before moving back to my home of New Jersey which is where the fun really started. Started strapping on doubles and deco bottles and getting some quality bottom time in. Naturally, I had to go back down to Florida to go for Full Cave, as well.

I moved to Hawaii as a dive instructor, having decided that working to fund a dive addiction is stupid, so I quit my day job and made diving my day job. Things are better that way.

Then I moved back to New York to work as an Aquarium Dive Safety Officer.

Then we left New York again and moved to Mexico. My wife and I run a BnB for cave divers and I'm back to teaching full-time.

Certification History:

I have lots of cards.

Certification Level:

Instructor at Cave, CCR, Trimix level

# of Logged Dives:

2,500 - 4,999

Dive Classification:

Scuba Industry Professional

Years Certified:

Ten Or More Years

Dive Equipment:

Too much.

Oh, who am I kidding. There's never too much.

Rebreather Type:

Megalodon

Rebreather Experience:

• Kiss
• Megalodon
• SF2

Diving Rebreathers Since:

2008