Scuba Diving

Peter Szyszka is among the elite of diving professionals worldwide having achieved Instructor Trainer status with six training agencies - PADI Course Director, TDI Instructor Trainer for all courses including Trimix, DSAT Trimix Instructor Trainer, DAN Instructor Trainer in Oxygen Provision, Emergency First Response Instructor Trainer and Instructor Trainer for IAHD (International Association of Handicapped Divers).  Hailing originally from Poland, Peter is now a resident of Sydney, Australia. He has a gift for training, an extensive knowledge in all areas of diving and a passion for this sport that inspires all who come in contact with him.

Peter is certified to service over 13 brands of scuba equipment and has an extensive knowledge of, and experience in equipment configuration including rebreathers, oxygen cleaning and gas blending. Peter has dived on all 7 continents and 32 countries around the world to depths past 120 metres in all conditions and water temperatures. Peter has been a Polar Dive Guide and technical supervisor on many trips to the Polar Regions.

Edwin is an avid outdoor enthusiast with a passion for all activities based on, in and under water.

He’s an Australian currently living in Arizona, USA.

Edwin is an experienced polar ice diver, he holds many diving certifications with several agencies, including: Divemaster, Master Scuba Diver, deep diver and extended range river, rescue diver, gas blender, Trimix, DPV, and emergency oxygen provider. Edwin has been a certified diver since 1986 and has dived in the polar regions with Aurora Expeditions aboard the Polar Pioneer, where his love affair with the polar regions started.

Outside his passion for water activities, Edwin is also a helicopter pilot and an entrepreneur. He has successfully started and managed several start-up companies from inception to multinational status. Edwin has a Master’s degree in Management from Macquarie University in Sydney and has worked in the commercial lighting industry for over 30 years.

Originally from the North East of England, he began diving whilst studying for his degree.

On a trip to see his sister who was working in the Arabian Gulf, he decided that the expatriate life was for him, and it took him 25 years to get home!

He freely admits to not being able to ”walk past a puddle without wanting to get in it and see what’s at the bottom of it” and thinks the Polar regions are one of the best places on Earth to do it.

Martin now lives in Sydney, Australia, where he can be found teaching diving, as well as supervising divers (and penguins) at Sydney’s world-famous Taronga Zoo.

He has completed more than 10,000 dives in a career lasting over 30 years.

He is a PADI Master Instructor, a BSAC Advanced Instructor and a commercial diver, working as a Safety and Rescue Supervisor for the BBC Natural History Unit and TV Production companies.

He has instructor ratings in more than 16 specialities and is also a qualified cox’n with sea survival and VHF qualifications.

He is an emergency first response instructor trainer and scuba technician.

He has dived extensively in the Polar Oceans, Australia, Scapa Flow, UK, Norway, France, Spain, Sicily, Beirut, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Oman, Caribbean, Indian Ocean, South Africa, Mozambique, Maldives and the Galapagos Islands.