Professional

• Co-owner of Zero Gravity/DIR-Mexico
• GUE Cave Instructor for Zero Gravity
• Member of GUE Training Council

Diving Qualifications

• GUE RB80 Rebreather Diver
• GUE Fundamentals Instructor and Instructor Trainer
• GUE Cave 1, 2, 3 Instructor and Instructor Trainer
• GUE DPV1 & 2 Instructor

Diving Experience

• 16 years of diving
• 6000+ logged dives
• 4500+ cave dives
• 1500+ openwater dives
• 1000+ cave dives using Diver Propulsion Vehicles
• 2000+ cave dives using stage diving techniques
• 150+ sidemount dives
• Longest Penetration - 19,000 ft
• Cave Passage Explored and Surveyed - +80,000 ft

Community Involvement

• Founding Member - GEO -(Grupo de Exploracion Ox Bel Ha)Founding Member - MCEP - (Mexico Cave Exploration Project)
• Exploration Diver for MCEP
• Exploration Diver for the Balkans Karst Odyssey Project
• Cave exploration and survey of the following Systems: Actun Koh(1996), Minotauro(1997), Taj Mahal(1997), Actun Chen(1998),Vaca Ha(1998), OX Bel Ha (1998 to ...), Naranjal(1999), Ayim(2000), Pac Chen & Mariposa (2000), Carillo (2000), San Andres(2001), A'Im(2001),Punto Venado(2002),Yax Chen(2002 to 2008), Maya(2004), Boca Paila & Kaapechen Sian Kaan Biosphere Reserve (2005 to...), Apocalypse (2006), Source of Zdena (2008), Exodus (2009), Source of Mracaj (2009), San Man Hai (2009), Tatich (2010), Batastisa (2010), Crvo Vrelo (2010)
• Established connection between Sistema Del Mar and Esmeralda (Birnbach/Le Maillot - March 1999) to become Sistema Ox Bel Ha
• Established connection between Ox Bel Ha and the Caribbean Sea (Birnbach/Riordan/Le Maillot - August 1998)
• Established connection between San Man Hai China #4 & #5 (Devos/Le Maillot - Dec 2009)
• Support diver on science project with Beddow & Smith(1999, 2000), Werner(2001, 2003, 2004, 2010), Reinhardt(2007 to 2010)
• Production of Cave Maps
• Presenter at the GUE Conference in 2006 (Budapest), 2007 (Florida), 2009 (Florida) & CDAA (Cave Diving Association of Australia) conference 2010.
• Cave diving experience in Mexico, France, Bosnia & Herzegovina, China, Australia and Florida.

Special interests

• Traveling & hiking

Publications

• NACD Journal 2000, 2002 and 2003
• GUE Quest Magazine 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 & 2009

Languages

• English, French, Spanish