Graham Pettett - Graham in the newly appointed South East regional coach.  Graham is a familiar face on the regional training circuit and will be known to many of you.  Graham will be compare for the day and will be on hand to meet existing and prospective members of the BSAC to understand what you want from the South East region and how we can help.

Rex Cowan -  A former lawyer, now wreck hunter, writer and broadcaster, whose work includes the award winning science film 'Chaos', Rex Cowan has spent most of the last 34 years discovering and excavating shipwrecks of the 17th. and 18th. century.

Among his team's most substantial discoveries are the Hollandia, a Dutch East Indiaman sunk off the Isles of Scilly in 1743, and the T'Vliegent Hart, sunk in 1735 off Holland. He was for 22 years a member of HM Government's Advisory Committee on Historic Wreck. In 1993 the Queen of the Netherlands made him a Knight of the Order of Orange Nassau for his services to Dutch Underwater Maritime History.

Recently winning a ‘Virgin Holidays Responsible Tourism Award’ for ‘Best in a Marine Environment’, blue o two is at the forefront of Marine Conservation and Sustainable Tourism.

Martin Dean - a Senior Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews.

Martin started diving inn 1967 for fun but soon became his career where he eventually became the Underwater Archaeologist at the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich.

In 1986 he moved to St Andrews to set up the Archaeological Diving Unit, which was contracted to the government to assess historic wreck sites in UK waters. In 2003 with colleagues he set up Advanced Underwater Surveys (ADUS) to exploit new sonar technology to help with the investigation of wrecks for heritage and environmental purposes. ADUS is expanding into the production of 3D images of wrecks for TV companies and also to help divers with wreck dive planning.
 

Alex Diamond - Alex is a specialist in diving in the South of France, and runs Diamond Diving, a BSAC Resort Centre that operates trips to five locations along the Cote D'Azur. He has the French Brevet D'Etat and is a CMAS ** Instructor.  Alex will be talking to us about some of the wrecks, their histories and what they are like to dive.

Gavin Parsons - Gavin is former editor of Sport Diver magazine and is now an award winning freelance photographer and journalist.  Gavin will be talking about his expeditions to New Foundland to photograph and document the Capelin Roll.  He believes he is the first professional photographer to start documenting the Capelin Roll.  Capelin are small fish that gather in the bays around Newfoundland every summer to breed. They gather in spectacular numbers and spawn by throwing themselves on the beaches making a truly magnificent spectacle

Dr Oliver Firth - Dr Oliver Firth is the newest addition to the team of dive doctors at London Diving Chamber. He has had a wide variety of experience as a doctor in both the UK and Australia, including being a member of the ‘Flying Squad' at The Royal Infirmary in Derby. Dr Firth also regularly writes for Sport Diver magazine in "Ask the Experts".

Dr Firth is a keen diver with particular interests in underwater photography and film-making.

Marcus Greatwood - is a world renowned freediving instructor who has trained world record holders including Herbert Nitsch.  Marcus has himself held a number of AIDA ratified UK records, most recently the free immersion record at 61m.

Marcus will be be sharing some of his breathing techniques to help you improve your gas consumption.

Jeff Cornish - Jeff was a diver on the recent RMS Carpathia expedition. The Carpathia was the liner that raced to the rescue of the survivors of the Titanic. Succumbing to the depths herself in WWI she lies over 200 miles from shore and in depths in excess of 155m making it at the very limit of sport diving. The team successfully managed to survey, video and photograph the wreck. They also managed to collect artefacts for it's owner, Titanic INC who intend to include them in the Titanic artefact exhibition which travels worldwide and has been seen by over 12 million people. Jeff's fascination is with liners sunk around the UK, he dives with The Darkstar dive team, a team that researches, locates and dives liners previously unfound and undived. These have included the Transylvania, Tuscania, Andania and Amazon amongst others mostly in depths of around 100m. He originally trained in the mid 1980's with the Bank of England BSAC where his uncle instructed.