GUE Instructor resumé
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Classes I teach:
Discover Diving
Recreational Supervised Diver
Recreational Diver 1 - Nitrox
Recreational Diver 3 - Trimix
GUE Fundamentals
Doubles Diver
Drysuit Diver
Triox Primer
DPV Diver 1
Technical Diver 1
Professional
- Principal Engineer, Espial, 2002-present
- Senior Engineer, nCUBE, 1996-2001
- Scuba Instructor, Wallins Dive Center, 1997-2004
- Scuba Instructor, AquanSports, 2005-2007
Education
- B.A., 1990, Computer Science, Simon Bolivar University, Venezuela
- Master, 1992, Computer Science, Simon Bolivar University, Venezuela
Diving Qualifications
- Fundamentals Instructor GUE
- Technical Instructor GUE
- Open Water Instructor SSI, IANTD, TDI (Inactive)
- Technical Instructor IANTD, TDI (Inactive)
- O2 Provider Instructor DAN (Inactive)
- Trimix Diver GUE, IANTD, TDI
- Cave Diver NSS-CDS, CDAA
Diving Experience
- 18 years of diving
- 1800+ logged dives
- 200+ cave dives
- 120+ cave dives using stage diving techniques
- 1000+ cold water dives
- 400+ dives using stage decompression techniques
- 400+ dives using specially mixed gases
- 200+ dives using DPVs
- Longest Cave Penetration -15,500 ft
- Longest Dive - 360 min
Community Involvement
- Nohoch Nah Chich Project ( Dec/1998 )
- Nohoch Nah Chich Project ( Dec/2001 )
- EJPP Project (Sept/ 2003)
- EJPP Project (Sept/ 2004)
- EJPP Project (May/2005)
- EJPP Project (Oct/2006)
- MCEP Project (Nov/2006)
- PET Jan 2007
- PET March 2007
- PET May 2007
- PET Oct 2007
- PET March 2008
- PET June 2008
- PET Dec 2008
- DSV California Diving (2004)
- BAUE E3 Project (Feb/2003)
- BAUE Big Sur Project (2004)
- BAUE Barge 2006
- BAUE Great Pinnacle 2007
- BAUE Thumbs Up 2008
- BAUE Point Lobos Mapping 2010
- GUE Conference 2008
- GUE Conference 2010
- GUE Conference 2012
Special interests
- Exploring and mapping Carmel/Monterey Pinnacles
- Mexican Cave Diving
- Swimming
- Volleyball
Publications
- Underwater Mapping of Point Lobos State Reserve, A. Nava, Quest 5.3
- A Quest for Saving Those Memories: Part I, A. Nava, Quest 6.4
- Got My Video System... What’s Next?, A. Nava, Quest 7.1
- The Barge Project: A First Step in BAUE’s Project Development Program, A. Nava & S. Bird, Quest 7.3
- What's Up with GUE's Fundamentals Course?, A. Nava, Quest 8.2
- Exploring Tamakas Ecological Park, A. Nava, Quest 8.4
- How to Prepare for a Successful Tech 1 Class, S. Bird & A. Nava, Quest 9.3
- Rissolo, D., P. Luna, A. Nava, A. Alvarez, F. Attolini, J C. Chatters, R Chavez Arce, and S. Meacham 2012 Recent Investigations in Hoyo Negro: A Submerged Late Pleistocene Cave Site in Quintana Roo, Mexico. Paper presented at the Society for Historical Archaeology 45th Annual Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology, Baltimore, MD.
Additional languages
- Spanish