INSTRUCTOR BIOS

Fred Devos
PO Box 14
Puerto Aventuras, 77750
Q.Roo, Mexico
52 984 11 63464

fred@dir-mexico.com


Professional

  • Co-Owner Zero Gravity Dive Center
  • Founder/Director of EDUCENTRO PUERTO AVENTURAS
  • Cave Instructor for DIR-Mexico
  • Languages - English, Spanish

Dive Community Involvement

  • Founding Member of Mexico Cave Exploration Project (MCEP)
  • Founding Member - Grupo de Exploración Ox Bel Ha
  • Exploration Diver for Mexico Cave Exploration Project
  • Exploration Diver for Sistema Ox Bel Ha
  • Cave exploration and survey of Systems: Minotauro, Valet, Actun Chen, Taj Mahal, Dos Pies, El Punto, Chac Hal Al, X-Pu Ha, Alimi, Carrillo, Cubera, Yax Chen, Maya and Ox Bel Ha, Caapechen, Oxpechen1, Oxpechen 2, Camaron, Boca Paila

  • Produced 20+ cave maps
  • Initiated and assisted with numerous scientific cave studies
  • Guest Speaker - QRSS Cave Diving Conference - 2003, 2004
  • Regular contributor of articles to Quest and other cave and diving journals

 

Diving Qualifications
  • Cave Instructor, GUE and NACD
  • Fundamentals Instructor, GUE
  • Openwater Instructor, PADI
Diving Experience Summary
  • 15 years of diving
  • experience
  • 13 years diving instructor
    experience
  • 3000+ logged dives
  • 1500+ cave dives
  • 300+ cave dives using stage diving techniques
  • 150+ cave dives using DPVs
  • 150+ sidemount dives
  • Longest Cave Penetration 19,000 ft
  • 80,000+ ft Cave Passage Explored and Surveyed
Special Interests
  • Underwater Cave Exploration and Survey
  • Dry Caving
  • Free-diving
  • Community volunteer
   

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