GUE Instructor résumé

Fred Devos

Cerrada Cangrejo 26-28 SMZ10 MZ9 LT35
Puerto Maya, Puerto Aventuras, Q. ROO 77782 Mexico

Mobile phone: (52) 984-1163464
Email: fred@dir-mexico.com
Website: www.dir-mexico.com

Professional

  • 2006 to present: Co-owner of Zero Gravity / Dir-Mexico
  • 1999 to 2006: Owner of AQUA EXPLORATION
  • 1999 to present: Founder/Director of EDUCENTRO PUERTO AVENTURAS
  • 1995 to present: Full time scuba instructor, facility manager, in Central America
  • 1993 to 2005: ESL teacher (Taiwan and Mexico)

Diving Qualifications

  • Cave Instructor: GUE, NACD
  • Fundamentals Instructor:GUE
  • Open water Instructor: PADI
  • Cave Recovery Diver: NSS-CDS

Diving Experience

  • 4000+ logged dives
  • 2500+ cave dives
  • 400+ cave dives using stage diving techniques
  • 250+ cave dives using DPVs
  • 150+ sidemount dives
  • Longest Cave Penetration 19,000 ft
  • 80,000+ ft Cave Passage Explored and Surveyed
  • Exploration Diver for Mexico Cave Exploration Project
  • Exploration Diver for Grupo de ExploraciÃ

Community Involvement

  • Founding Member of Mexico Cave Exploration Project
  • Founding Member of Grupo de Exploracion Ox Bel Ha
  • Produced 20+ cave maps
  • Initiated and assisted with numerous scientific cave studies
  • Guest Presenter - GUE Conference - 2006
  • Guest Speaker - QRSS Cave Diving Conference - 2003, 2004
  • Regular contributor of articles to Quest and other cave and diving journals

Special interests

  • Underwater Cave Exploration and Survey
  • Dry Caving
  • Free-diving
  • Community volunteer

Publications

  • Quest
  • Association for Mexican Cave Studies Newsletter

Languages

  • Spanish
  • English