tphelps
Course Director, Male, from San Francisco, CA
Thanks for visiting my page! Contact me via email at info@balanceddivers.com or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/phelpstyler/) Nov 18, 2017
- tphelps was last seen:
- Jul 1, 2019
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About
- Gender:
- Male
- Location:
- San Francisco, CA
- Occupation:
- Marine Scientist
- Gender:
- Male
- eBay User Name:
- tylerphelps
- Certification Agencies:
- NAUI, UTD, PADI, DAN, ARC, IAHD, TDI, IANTD
- Dive History:
- Started diving in Southern California, via Discover in 2009. I fell in love with diving and did my professional training on Utila Island, Honduras in 2012.
- Certification History:
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NAUI Course Director
DAN Instructor Trainer
PADI IDC Staff Instructor
UTD Foundational Instructor
IAHD Adaptive Scuba Professional Instructor
ARC Lifeguard Instructor
NAUI Training Committee Member, reviewer of 2016 Leadership and Instruction Textbook and 2017 Master Scuba Diver Textbook. Co-author on NAUI DPV, FFM, Side Mount, Scientific Diver training standards.
NAUI Prism2 Extreme Exposure CCR Diver. Certified on Poseidon MKVI, Titan CCR, Hollis Explorer and owner of a Hollis Prism 2. NAUI Technical Instructor on the Prism2, Intro to Tec, and other technical specialties.
Researcher of mesophotic fish ecology. Credited with the collection of 5 new species (in press).
Deepest dive: 500ft/150m (collecting new species)
Longest dive: 6 hours (5.5 hours of deco)
Favorite day dive: West Past, Palau
Favorite night dive: Manta Dive @ Garden Eel Cove, Kona, HI
Favorite photography dive: Melasti, Bali
Favorite macro-photography dive: Lembeh, Indonesia
- Certification Level:
- NAUI Course Director
- # of Logged Dives:
- 1,000 - 2,499
- Dive Classification:
- Instructor / Assistant Instructor / Dive Master / Dive Con
- Years Certified:
- Six - Ten Years
- Rebreather Type:
- Prism2
- Rebreather Experience:
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- Prism 2
- Titan
- Diving Rebreathers Since:
- 2012
Founder and Owner of Balanced Divers, offering training from scuba diver to instructor trainer, and technical courses from intro to technical diving to rebreather. As a marine scientist, I do current research on mesophotic fish ecology to depths up to 500 feet, investigating fish assemblage patterns and factors influencing speciation.Interact
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Tyler Phelps
Owner of Balanced Divers
M.S. Ecology Candidate, B.S. Marine Science, NAUI Course Director & Tec Instructor, DAN Instructor Trainer
NAUI #57749, DAN #15320, UTD #124, PADI #310892, ARC #1832387, IAHD #14002
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