MORE: Underwater adventurers, expedition leaders and influencers in our industry share their adventures with us. Talks every Thursday at 6pm (5pm GMT)

Lanny Vogel – Thursday 18th June – “Why would any sane person cave dive?”

Lanny is a full-time cave diving instructor and, with his wife Claire, is the owner of Underworld Tulum (www.underworldtulum.com), a purpose-built dive centre in the heart of Mexican cave country with bespoke accommodation for divers. He is also the founder of Cave Camp (www.cavecamp.com), an annual event that brings together cave divers and instructors from all over the world for courses, presentations, socials and great cave diving.

Garry Dallas – Thursday 25th June – Exploring oceans and caves on Sidemount

Garry is a keen conservationist and an honorary member of Arctic on the Edge, a contingent of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, promoting protection of all marine life through media while presenting at schools near home and a speaker at national and international dive show events.

Gareth Lock – If only – a very impactful documentary (The Human Diver.)

Gareth will be speaking about the film ‘If Only…’ and how human factors links with this, what people can do to take key lessons from the film and workshops they can run themselves to get discussions going about human error, human factors and a Just Culture.

Gareth would like us to watch this documentary before his talk, it is 32 minutes long and a video I believe every diver should watch. https://vimeo.com/414325547

PJ Prinsloo – Diving into the history of Truk Lagoon.

PJ is a South African Technical Instructor Evaluator for cave, open circuit and closed circuit rebreathers and a member of The Explorers Club. He is involved in an ongoing expedition excavating a 2700 year old shipwreck at 110m off Malta. PJ will be presenting a collection of images from a recent trip he did with Jill Heinerth to Truk Lagoon. He’ll be discussing a little history behind some of the wrecks and the events around that lead up to the USA’s attack on the Japanese Fleet.

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Contact your local Dive Centre for the Zoom login code and we’ll see everyone on Thursday evening at 6pm ( Or 5pm GMT) . Alternatively, contact Keryn on kerynvanderwalt@gmail.com