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Introducing the BOD
Tom Mount
Tom Mount is the President of lANTD. He brings 36 years of active
diving leadership to IANTD. Tom's career includes military diving, commercial diving,
research diving, saturation diving, supervision of saturation diving projects and a wide
variety of recreational diving leadership positions. Tom owned a dive shop and commercial
diving service company where he specialized in installing underwater communication cables
for the Cape Kennedy missile range and salvage work from 1963 to 1968. During this period
he formed the Aqua Marine Cave Dwellers(later renamed the Florida Cave Dwellers) from
which he and Dave Desautels, Larry Briel, and Dale Malloy formed the fast cave (technical)
diving certification program in the USA, The National Association of Cave Divers (NACD).
From 1968 to 1976 Tom was the Diving Officer at the University of Miami's Rosensteil
School of Marine and Atmospherie Sciences (RSMAS). While in this capacity he developed
programs that had scientists routinely performing air dives to 140 fsw and Heliox to
300fsw. In addition, RSMAS was the most active university program involved in saturation
dives. Tom participated in Tek Tite ll, Hydrolab (supervision and performance of numerous
saturation dives) and supervised the diving on the NOAA sponsored the FLARE saturation
diving project. From 1969 to 1976 Tom supervised the chambers at RSMAS which treated the
vast majority of diving accidents in South Florida and the Bahamas. Tom left RSMAS to
become the Training Director for the National YMCA Underwater Activities Program. While
there he was the Director of the Army Corps of Engineers Diver Training Program and the
lead author of its training manual. Tom then spent a short period of his career as the ice
President of Marketing for Teach Tour Dive Travel Company and Resorts. Following this Tom
continued his career as a diving consultant, instructor, free lance photographer, author,
and marketing consultant.
Tom became the ice President of IANTD in 1991 and developed Standards and Procedures for technical diving. In 1991 he accepted Dick Rutkowski's proposal to become the President of IANTD. Since that time Tom has been active as President of IANTD and Tom Mount's Quality Diver Education. Tom has LOGGED in excess of H, 000 dives including more than 1, 400 cave dives, !,100 wreck dives and more than 1,100 dives deeper than 100 fsw Tom is truly one of the most, if not the most, all around experienced technical divers in the world today.
Tom is the author of The Cave Diving Manual, Safe Cave Diving, The Greatest Adventure Photography, Practical Diving, The New Practical Diving, Mixed Gas Diving, The Army Corps of Engineering Course Syllabus, The Advanced Diver Student Workbook The Technical EANx Student Workbook, Tire Trimix Student Workbook and the soon to be released Cave Diving Student Manual and Workbook a contributor to the NOAA dive manual, author of hundreds of articles in various magazines worldwide. His photographs have received publication and acclaim internationally. Tom has worked with the Courteous, Bruno Valetti and John Stoneman and several other production companies on various ?V specials and has been involved in commercial and advertising photography. Tom is also a Master in Martial Arts, a licensed Coast Guard Captain and an airplane pilot.
Tom is an IANTD Instructor Trainer at al! levels. NA CD Instructor, NA UI Instructor Trainer, PADI Instructor number 498, and has been mentioned in the books no's
no and no's no In Diving. Tom has received dozens of awards for his contributions to diving. Dick Rutkowski
Dick retired from NOAA in 1985 with 33 years of federal service. He has served as Deputy Diving Coordinator. He was Founder and Director of the NOAA Diving/Hyperbaric Training and Diver Treatment Facility from 1973 to 1985 where hundreds of divers have been treated. He also served as Co Director for the NOAA/UHMS three week Physician's Diving and Hyperbaric Medical Training Program for the past 19 years. During this time, hundreds of physicians have completed this program and are presently serving as directors and/or physicians for major hyperbaric facilities in the US and abroad.
Mr. Rutkowski also served as Director of NOAA Diver Training from 1965 until he retired. He has acquired vast knowledge in diving life support systems, as they apply to diving and to hyperbaric facilities. Upon retiring from federal service in 1985, Dick formed Hyperbarics International, Inc. and is past President
of the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society, Gulf Coast Chapter, Founder of American Nitrox Divers. Inc. (ANDI), The International Association of Nitrox and Technical Divers, Inc. (IANTD), and the Undersea Research Foundation (URF).
Captain
Billy Deans
Nicknamed "Dr. Deep ", Billy can be found at his store, Key West Diver, Inc. when he isn't making newspaper headlines Billy is also President of Deep Sea Technologies and has been a Coast Guard Captain (Up to 100 tons) for over 17 years.
Billy, who has been diving for over 25 years, is an acknowledged leader in diver education. He is a PADI instructor and an IANTD Instructor-Trainer for all IANTD diving certifications.
"The Captain " is a national expert witness on the subject of deep air diving and an undisputed leader in deep wreck exploration and recovery. In 1990, Billy was invited to become a member of Gary Gentile's "USS Monitor" photographic project. Billy has made a number of exploratory technical dives on the "Andrea Doria" and has stood on the deck of the "USS Wilkes Barre " (250 fsw) more times than some of her crew.
Billy was first to explore two historic W. W11 wrecks, the German U boat "U-2513 and the steamer "Rhein ".
Billy is a Technical Instructor for the US Government. In addition to instructing US Army Corps of Engineer divers, he teaches both US Army and US Navy Special Forces Divers!
In late 1993, Billy became Dive Operations Officer for the famous "Grumpy Project ". This dive team recovered treasure and artifacts from a Spanish brigantine which sank in the Gulf of Mexico of New Orleans in 295 fsw.
Billy is truly a "today's diver". He was the recipient of the 1994 Tek award. What better qualifications could a Board member of the world's largest technical diving organization have?
IANTD International FranchisesInternationally IANTD
is represented by Rob Cajon in Australasia, Peter Schmidt in Austria, Kevin Gurr in the UK, Leo Calligaro in Venezuela, Reg Creighton and Erik -Leigh Haley in Canada, Carla Binelli in Italy, Benjamin and Dr. Marion Altkorn in Germany, and "Pipo" Gut in CyprusInternational Board of Advisors
The International Board of Advisors is composed of Lee Somers, Ph.D., Chairman; Morgan Wells, Ph. D.; Martin Shamlian, Ph.D.; Gregg Stanton, Richard Nordstrom; Mark Leonard; Randy Bohrer; Frans Vandermolen; Richard Bull; Kevin Denlay; Reg Boer; Garry Howland, Larry Elsevier; Dan Danciger; and Hal Watts.
From the above it is easy to determine the overwhelming experience that IANTD
has to draw from internationally. This in depth storehouse of knowledge, diving
education background and extensive practical abilities enables IANTD to have the
most complete resources possible for developing and updating its training programs
to stay abreast of evolving technologies.
For more information, contact bbcdiver@starhub.net.sg or call us at 222 6862
for more details now!