Michael Menduno – Author, Reporter, Editor of AquaCORPS and Technical Diving Forerunner
Hey everyone welcome to another episode of the League of Extraordinary Divers. I’m so glad you’re here today. Have you ever wondered who came up with the name technical diving? Well actually our guest today did. Michael Menduno aka “M2” is an award-winning reporter and technologist who has written about diving and diving technology for more than 30 years. He coined the term “technical diving.” Menduno serves as the editor-in-chief of Global Underwater Explorers InDepth online magazine, is a contributing editor for DAN Europe’s Alert Diver and X-Ray magazine, and writes for DeeperBlue.com. He is also on the board of directors for the Historical Diving Society.
Michael founded and served as editor in chief of “aquaCORPS: The Journal for Technical Diving (1990-1996), and its sister publication technicalDIVER, which helped usher tech diving into mainstream sports diving. In addition, he produced the first Tek, EUROTek and ASIATek conferences, and organized Rebreather Forums 1.0 and 2.0. His work has also appeared in Alert Diver, AQUA, Asian Diver, Business 2.0, DeeperBlue.com, Discovery, Dive Log Australasia, DIVER, the Journal of Diving History, InDepth, NACD Journal, Outside, Quest, Scientific American, Scuba Times, Sports Diver, Undercurrent, Undersea Journal, WIRED and X-Ray magazines.
Michael worked with Capt. Billy Deans to set up the first technical diving training center in Key West, Florida in the early 1990s, which quickly became a Mecca for tech divers from around the world. He has studied and trained with many of the best and brightest in the business. Michael received the OZTEK Media Excellence Award in 2011, the EUROTek Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012 and the TEKDive USA Media Award in 2018.
Michael earned his open-water certification in 1976, is Full Cave certified (1990, 2018), certified on AP Diving rebreathers and is a member of Global Underwater Explorers (GUE). In addition to diving, Michael is actively involved in U.S. Masters swimming and has been a performing bass player.
Items In This Podcast
- Watching Jaws Before His Checkout Dives
- Early Days of Technical Training
- The Emergence of Enriched Air Nitrox
- Technical Expeditions
- AquaCORPS Magazine
- A Humorous Encounter with The Legendary Sheck Exley
- Aggressive Sharks
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