Matt Mandziuk - Technical Diving Instructor, Cave Diving Instructor
Matt was certified for scuba diving in 1994 after growing up with scuba in his veins. When he dove his first shipwreck, that was it. It ignited a passion for diving that will never burn out.

Matt has logged thousands of dives in as many diving environments possible. In 1998 he began walking down the leadership path and has since earned ratings of instructor through NAUI Tech offering the many cutting edge Naui Technical Diving Courses from Intro to Tech to Trimix Level 2 and NAUI's exceptional Cave Diving and WreckSurvey, Wreck Penetration Courses and Technical Wreck Penetration courses. PADI as a DSAT Tec Trimix Instructor, TDI Technical Diving Trimix Instructor, SDI Instructor, Cavern Instructor.  

Matt loves to teach diving, with his favourite Courses to teach being NAUI's Intro to Tech Course, Trimix, Decompression Procedures, Wreck penetration, Cavern and Cave Diver, Diver Propulsion Vehicle and the Open Water Scuba Diver programs.

What sets Matt apart from the vast majority of technical diving instructors and divers is his versatility and his extensive background in not just shipwreck diving or deep diving, but also cave diving, wreck and cave exploration on both backmounted and sidemounted tanks, as wel as thousands of mixed gas trimix dives.

You'll often find Matt diving the thousands of Great Lakes shipwrecks and Deep Wall Diving in his backyard of Ontario, Canada, as well as the many great American shipwrecks in the US. Matt is also very fond of diving in the many underwater Caves in Mexico or Florida and even occasionally on one of the many great dive sites that warmer climates have to offer.

Matt's World Class Diving Abilities, Reputation for Excellence, Passion for diving and Attentiveness to students has earned him a following of students from all over the Globe including Canada, USA, Germany, Mexico, Italy and has placed him on many Technical Diving Expeditions, on TV, Radio and in Dive Magazines.

We have flown Matt around the globe to teach all levels of technical diving courses for our store, so if you cannot come to us, we will go to wherever you may be, whether we have to drive or fly to get there. Pay our flight and we'll be there.

Matt was one of North America's First Instructors to be offering Recreational and Technical Diving Instruction using the Doing it Right approach to diver skill, philosophy and equipment configuration. He was also one of the first instructors to teach sidemount in Canada and has been diving and teaching sidemount diving since before sidemount was "cool".

Matt is an authorized repair technician for many major brands of equipment as well as a certified OUC and PSI Visual Tank Inspector, Gas Blender for every major agency, a Gas Blender Instructor for PADI DSAT and NAUI Tech, as well as a NAUI Service Technician Instructor.

Matt is also a Professional Musician taking time on occasion to play live on stage or in the recording studio. Matt has recorded for some of the best bands you've never heard of, as well as his own solo projects.

Matt is always working on a project or getting ready to explore a unique dive site very few have. 2011 projects include diving the Gunilda, Empress of Ireland, U-869, Andrea Doria, Great White Shark Diving, the Thomas Scott shipwreck and more.

Matt has also successfully finished his cave diving instructor course recently this year and will be offering cave training in Florida and Mexico on a regular basis.

While there area a lot of choices in technical diving instruction, make no mistake, there are few equal programs world-wide that stack up to what Matt teaches. If you want the best technical diving education, Matt will lay the strongest foundation possible. Let Matt Mandziuk be your guideline to diving excellence and become the diver you were born to be.

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