Don Shirley (diver)
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Don Shirley is a world renowned English cave diver
and Instructor Trainer and who currently resides in South Africa
. He holds the license to International Association of Nitrox and Technical Divers (IANTD) Southern Africa Region. Shirley has been involved in diving since 1974, conducting recreational and technical training. He is an Instructor Trainer Trainer for IANTD and Divers Alert Network
. He was an electronics engineer in the British Army for 22 years. Aside from his extraordinary experience level, Shirley is most known for his relationship with David Shaw
leading up to Shaw's death in 2005. Shirley with his wife Andre Shirley currently own and operate Technical Diving Africa and the flooded mine system of Komati Springs in the Mpumalanga
region of South Africa.
Cave diving
Cave diving is a type of technical diving in which specialized equipment is used to enable the exploration of caves which are at least partially filled with water. In the United Kingdom it is an extension of the more common sport of caving, and in the United States an extension of the more common...
and Instructor Trainer and who currently resides in South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
. He holds the license to International Association of Nitrox and Technical Divers (IANTD) Southern Africa Region. Shirley has been involved in diving since 1974, conducting recreational and technical training. He is an Instructor Trainer Trainer for IANTD and Divers Alert Network
Dan
Dan is a name. It refers sometimes to the short form of the name Daniel. Dan, or the acronym DAN may refer to the following:Persons* Fyodor Dan, a Russian Marxist revolutionary...
. He was an electronics engineer in the British Army for 22 years. Aside from his extraordinary experience level, Shirley is most known for his relationship with David Shaw
David Shaw (diver)
David Shaw was an Australian scuba diver, a technical diver and an airline pilot for Cathay Pacific, who flew the A330-300, A340-300 and A340-600...
leading up to Shaw's death in 2005. Shirley with his wife Andre Shirley currently own and operate Technical Diving Africa and the flooded mine system of Komati Springs in the Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga , is a province of South Africa. The name means east or literally "the place where the sun rises" in Swazi, Xhosa, Ndebele and Zulu. Mpumalanga lies in eastern South Africa, north of KwaZulu-Natal and bordering Swaziland and Mozambique. It constitutes 6.5% of South Africa's land area...
region of South Africa.
See also
- Cave divingCave divingCave diving is a type of technical diving in which specialized equipment is used to enable the exploration of caves which are at least partially filled with water. In the United Kingdom it is an extension of the more common sport of caving, and in the United States an extension of the more common...
- Deep divingDeep divingThe meaning of the term deep diving is a form of technical diving. It is defined by the level of the diver's diver training, diving equipment, breathing gas, and surface support:...
- Technical divingTechnical divingTechnical diving is a form of scuba diving that exceeds the scope of recreational diving...
- David Shaw (diver)David Shaw (diver)David Shaw was an Australian scuba diver, a technical diver and an airline pilot for Cathay Pacific, who flew the A330-300, A340-300 and A340-600...
- Nuno Gomes (diver)Nuno Gomes (diver)Nuno Gomes is a South African SCUBA diver who holds the official current world record deep dive . He used self contained underwater breathing apparatus to dive to a depth of 1,044 feet...