Andreas W. Matthes

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Recreational diving

Diver at Tortuga reef, Playa del Carmen, Riviera Maya, Mexico

I started as a recreational diver in 1991 and became a dive Instructor in 1993. My diving career took me around the planet from Thailand to Egypt to Honduras and Mexico. I still engage in the fun activity of recreational diving either by diving in the pool with kids or along the local reefs using a single tank configuration with stainless steel backplate, a 7 foot hose primary regulator I am breathing from, a secondary regulator attached to a bungee cord around my neck and a spg clipped off to a D-ring on my waist belt.

Teachingdiving to the next generation

I am an active PADI, IANTD and TDI instructor teaching recreational courses sporadicly, when time allows.

Recreational training programs I am teaching are:

Open Water, Advanced, Rescue and Divemaster, Deep Diver, Nitrox Diver

U/W Naturalist, Boat Diver, U/W Photographer, Cavern Diver

Search and Recovery Diver, Night Diver, Nitrox Diver, Wreck Diver, Multilevel Diver

Drift Diver, Essentials of diving Diver

Teaching scuba at Carabao Scubadiving, Koh Tao Thailand 1993

Carabao Scubadiving Team, Koh Tao, Thailand 1993

Dahab Blue Hole, Egypt in 1993

Koh Tao Thailand in 1993

Carabao Scubadiving Staff dive in 1994, Koh Tao, Thailand

Teaching Scuba at Sinai Dive Club, Naama Bay, Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, 1994

Returning from the wreck of the Thistlegom in 1994, Egypt

Tortuga Reef Playa del Carmen, Riviera Maya, Mexico