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Colin Wilson

Federated States Of Micronesia

Summary

Professional project diver and dive safety officer, specializing in remote location operations and multi cultural team management. I believe in training project divers with strong foundational skills combined with incrementally increasing responsibilities in search patterns, data recording, and team safety. My work focuses heavily on methods for advanced divers doing work in remote locations.

Overview

3
3
years of professional experience

Work History

Manager/Technical Instructor

XR Hub
01.2023 - 06.2024
  • Train advanced divers/local research scientists on advanced diving methods and usage of advanced tools. Worked directly with Fujairah Research Center divers to improve their coral propagation efforts.
  • Act as safety diver and on site medic for 100+m deep wreck expedition projects.
  • Brief and lead CCR technical divers and wreck photogrammetry teams on deep wreck sites in the Persian Gulf.

Interim General Manager

Dive Munda
12.2022 - 02.2023
  • Retrained staff in safety and emergency procedures after COVID pandemic.
  • Oversaw daily operations and maintained boats during cyclone season. Facilitated installation of a nitrox system and retrained locals in emergency protocols.
  • Collaborated with local villagers to reinstate land use permissions for dive operations. Went with locals to remap locations of WW2 wrecks.


Shareholder/General Manager

Big Blue Vanuatu
06.2021 - 11.2022
  • Oversaw day to day operations, managed schedule, maintained equipment/boats, drove boats, oversaw financials of business.
  • Worked with local government to move coral colonies out of the bay area in order to facilitate construction activities. Monitor and record coral health.
  • Worked with Ocean Conservancy on the Global Ghost Gear Initiative project by collecting and documenting ghost nets around the island of Efate.

Education

BBA - Food Service Management

Culinary Institute of America
Hyde Park, NY
04.2018

Accomplishments

  • The Diver Medic Instructor Trainer/Course Director
  • DAN Diver Medical Technician. FREC 3 first response, The Human Factors Level 2.
  • Hypoxic Trimix 100m+ diver, Technical Cave diver, Mixed Gas JJ-CCR diver, Advanced Recreation Trimix Fathom Gemini CCR and FLEX 2 CCR diver, Advanced Technical Wreck diver, trimix gas blending instructor, VIP
  • Technical Instructor - IANTD, TDI, SSI. Recreational Staff Instructor - PADI.

References

1) Will Goodman, CCR Depth World Record Holder, TDI CCR Instructor Trainer

+44 7422 664571, blackwatertek@gmail.com

2) Chantelle Newman, DAN Europe Area Manager for U.K. and Training RTC

Chantelle Newman@aol.com

I am happy to provide additional references from any past workplace

Timeline

Manager/Technical Instructor

XR Hub
01.2023 - 06.2024

Interim General Manager

Dive Munda
12.2022 - 02.2023

Shareholder/General Manager

Big Blue Vanuatu
06.2021 - 11.2022

BBA - Food Service Management

Culinary Institute of America

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