Jeff Bozanic – Scientific Diving Legend
In this episode of The League of Extraordinary Divers I chat with legendary scientific diver and explorer Jeff Bozanic.
Today’s guest is one of the premiere scientific divers and explorers on the planet.
Bio
Jeffrey Bozanic is the president of Next Generation Services, where he provides consulting and training services in the diving market. Clients include rebreather manufacturers, training agencies and legal agencies. Bozanic has participated in or led more than 70 diving expeditions in the past 30 years, to places like Palau, the Canary Islands and Antarctica.
He was certified as a NAUI Instructor in 1978 and is active in teaching cave diving, rebreather, nitrox, decompression and trimix diving courses. He has published extensively on diving education topics, with a heavy emphasis on diving safety. Bozanic has edited and reviewed many diving textbooks and is the author of Mastering Rebreathers, as well as the senior Technical Editor of the NOAA Diving Manual. He has served on several boards of directors in the diving community, including as Chairman of the NSS-CDS, Vice Chairman of NAUI and Treasurer of the AAUS.
He currently serves on the TDI Technical Advisory Committee and on multiple diving control boards.In 2007, he was honored as the DAN/Rolex Diver of the Year, and in 2015, he was the recipient of the AAUS Conrad Limbaugh Award for Scientific Diving Leadership. In 2018 Beneath the Sea selected him as the Diver of the Year Science.
Items In This Podcast
- Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Inspiration
- High school scuba class
- Scuba dredging for gold camping trip
- Scouting helped with diving success
- Underwater gold mining in the Bolivian jungle
- Rebreathers in the industry
- Mexican cave adventure with a speedo, machete and poison ivy
- Antartica naked ice dive photo shoot
- Favorite diving locations
- Jeffery.Bozanic facebook
- “Mastering Rebreathers” Best Publishing
- Expeditions
Sponsor
Special thanks to our episode sponsor Aggressor Adventures
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