About DeepFathoms

DeepFathoms...

"In 1988 I started my dive business running boat charters out of Bala, Ontario, from a small dive shop where we also offered commercial diving services. I ran this operation while attending the University of Guelph studying environmental sciences and coastal geomorphology, focusing on ecology management. With an avid interest in deep shipwrecks, mixed gas and cave diving I found a way to combine the unique approaches to extended range diving. After graduating from university I applied these skills to commercial applications, public safety diving, research diving and other aspects of ocean science.

My company, [operating under as Serious Divers Only (S.D.O.)] expanded taking me across Canada and around the world teaching all levels of diving, operating charter vessels and engaging in a variety of underwater research projects. Eventually settling on the west coast of Canada my business expanded further as Technical Diving became a mainstream endeavour. I found myself part of the pioneering efforts to introduce that realm of diving by not only franchising IANTD (International Association of Nitrox and Technical Divers), the first technical dive training program in Canada, but developing manuals and standards for a number of training agencies. With the expansion in 1997, S.D.O re-incorporated under the banner DeepFathoms.

Along the way I developed another passion, this time exploring the world on top of the water having had the benefit of travelling around oceans on both sides of the hemisphere. What came naturally was the evolution of an operation inevitably dedicated to aquatic exploration, specifically marine and diving sciences. DeepFathoms is the prodigy of those endeavours.