A maritime and diving operations specialist with more than 30 years of experience offers expertise in recreational, technical, scientific, and public safety diving, with particular focus on diving accident investigation, diver training standards, rebreather systems, decompression and mixed-gas diving, cave and wreck diving, and small-vessel maritime operations. His consulting work includes analysis of diving incidents, watersports injuries, life-support equipment, and maritime accidents involving dive operations and vessels under 100 tons. He has more than 10 years of expert witness experience involving case review, depositions, arbitration, and courtroom testimony in diving and maritime-related litigation.

His background includes senior leadership responsibilities involving diver education, safety management, and technical training operations for international diving organizations. Additional experience includes consulting related to diving education and risk management, dive safety oversight, diving equipment operations, product risk analysis, accident reconstruction, standards development, public safety dive instruction, and operational support for military, scientific, and emergency response diving programs. He has also participated in underwater recovery operations, deep wreck projects, scientific diving activities, and large-scale public safety diving operations in domestic and international environments.

He holds a Ph.D. in Educational (Adult) Psychology, with research focused on adventure sports education, client retention, and survival in critical underwater environments, and a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice with a minor in Psychology and concentration in Forensic Anthropology, earned cum laude. He also completed legal studies as a Juris Doctor candidate and pursued additional study in admiralty law. His credentials include a United States Coast Guard Merchant Mariner Master license with towing endorsements and certification as an Advanced Diving Medical Technician. He maintains numerous instructor trainer and evaluator ratings across recreational, technical, cave, wreck, rebreather, emergency response, and scientific diving disciplines, and participates in professional organizations including SCUBA Schools International (SSI), Technical Diving International (TDI), Scuba Diving International (SDI), Emergency Response Diving International (ERDI), and the American Academy of Underwater Sciences (AAUS).