Rosemary Lunn – Diving Industry Author and Marketing Expert
Today’s legend hails from the UK and she surely has a grasp on not only diving in the UK but also being a dive professional there as well.
Rosemary E Lunn (Roz) is the Business Development Director at The Underwater Marketing Company. This British firm specializes in providing marketing, communications, social media and event management for the Recreational and Technical Diving Industry.
Born in Essex, England Rosemary fulfilled her long-held desire to learn to scuba dive in 1992, after being left a legacy by her late Grandfather. She spent every moment she could exploring Britain’s magnificent coastal waters and wrecks. In what was to be a pivotal moment in 1996 she was handed a copy of aquaCORPS magazine, and she was soon planning her underwater excursions with a different mindset and discipline utilizing Nitrox and twinsets.
By 1997 Rosemary turned Pro and proudly achieved her PADI Instructor rating. She taught for a season in Turkey before turning her hand to diving journalism. Her articles in Dive Girl opened doors at 9>90, a British technical diving magazine. After a spell with DrägerDive, (Dräger Ray European Tour staff), Roz was headhunted to open a dive centre on the English South Coast. Two years later, the warmer waters of the Red Sea and a Dive Guide / Instructor job beckoned, enticing her to teach in Egypt.
Rosemary has worked as a professional instructor / dive guide, on History Channel and National Geographic documentaries, modeled underwater for training agency shots, as a safety diver for underwater shoots, and scuba relayed the English Channel for charity. She has trained an OWUSS Rolex Scholar to dive.
In Sept 2003 Rosemary worked on Carl Spencer’s HMHS Britannic expedition and saw the industry needed specialist PR support. Thus TUMC was born. She has worked with most of the major diving agencies, and blue chip brands including Dive Rite, Fourth Element and Poseidon. From a young age Rosemary was brought up to recycle and respect the environment, hence she is the catalyst behind Fourth Element’s Ocean Positive range.
Roz teamed up again with the late Carl Spencer (and Leigh Bishop) in 2008, when the three Brits founded EUROTEK. She has subsequently organized the last six events; Rosemary was responsible for organizing this century’s most significant CCR symposium to date – Rebreather Forum 3 – on behalf of the AAUS, DAN and PADI. In 2014 she established TEKDiveUSA.
Rosemary E Lunn is a respected, prolific diving author, and a staff writer for X-Ray Mag. She is an Associate Member of the Women Divers Hall of Fame, a SSI Platinum Diver, and takes an active role in the diving industry. She sits on the SITA Board (Scuba Industry Trade Association), and the British Diving Safety Group.
Items In This Podcast
- Eating cheese sandwiches to save up for diving
- Touring Rebreather Demo’s
- Wreck of Mary Rose
- Diving Scapa Flow
- Rosemary’s Facebook Page http://www.facebook.com/tumc.co.uk
- Twitter Roz_UWMarketing
- Instagram MsRozLunn
- Xray Magazine http://www.xray-mag.com
- The Underwater Marketing Company http://www.tumc.co.uk
- Kyarra Wreck Turns 100 Years Old | X-Ray Mag (xray-mag.com) https://xray-mag.com/content/kyarra-wreck-turns-100-years-old
- Scapa 100: Centenary Anniversary Event | X-Ray Mag (xray-mag.com) https://xray-mag.com/content/scapa-100-centenary-anniversary-event
- HSE – Diving: How we work https://www.hse.gov.uk/diving/how.htm
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