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Your Sub-Aquatic Survivor & Master Diver University Core Instructors and Staff
Our instructional teams include some of the world's most respected diving authors, instructors and instructor trainers.  Our instructional programs and most of the logistics support for the Sub-Aquatic Survivor ® programs are offered by one of the oldest dedicated technical training facilities in the USA, SEAduction® Dive Services, Inc.  Here are a few of our recent staff members:

Mike Ange


Cocos Island
Photo by Fred Garth
CAPT. Michael R. Ange wears many hats in the diving industry including, Managing Director of the Americas Division for the Professional SCUBA Association, International and a contributing author and Technical Editor for SCUBA Diving Magazine.  A published author, photojournalist and internationally recognized lecturer, Mike has a personal training background as varied as his list of students including military, law enforcement, technical and recreational training.  Certified with several agencies, he holds instructor trainer ratings including Advanced TRIMIX, Semi-Closed and Closed Circuit Rebreathers, Technical Wreck and Cave.  Additionally, he is a Certified Advanced Diver Medic with The International Board of Undersea Medicine and an USCG Licensed Master with Power, Sail and Commercial Towing Endorsements.

Mike has published training standards, five textbooks, and well over 100 journal and magazine articles on recreational diver safety and training, technical training, and emergency response diver training.  His next book, Diver Down: Real World SCUBA Accidents and How to Avoid Them, is due for release by a division of McGraw Hill Publishing in September of 2005.  He has delivered presentations and training to emergency medical personnel, rescue, law enforcement, military special operations units and advanced diving professionals from around the world including presentations in Portugal, Thailand, Singapore, and numerous locations in the USA.

During his diving career, Mike has safely trained well over 2,500 divers, certified hundreds of instructors and dozens of instructor trainers, logged well in excess of 5,000 safe dives including over 200 to depths in excess of 200 fsw and participated as a diver in several expeditions including two to The USS Monitor.  He originated and was the project leader for the Skin Diver Magazine “Sub Aquatic Survivor Expedition - 2002” which has become an annual media covered event.  In the academic community, he has served at various times as adjunct faculty at six colleges and universities and was visiting faculty to the Scientists in the Sea Program VI conducted by Florida State University and the U.S. Navy.  Mike was one of the establishing faculty members for the Undersea & Hyperbaric Medical Society sponsored course for physicians: Medical Assessment of Fitness for Diving.

Additional accomplishments in the diving industry include being: the current Managing Director of Waterproof Gear, Inc – The North American Division of Waterproof AB in Sweden, the International Marketing Manager and Business Unit Manager for Dräger Safety, Inc’s, Americas Diving Division 2000 - 2002; the founder of SEAduction® Dive Services, Inc., a successful retail and training business in Central North Carolina; a successful independent consultant for diving equipment manufacturers; and an expert witness and consultant on diver training and equipment liability.  Mike served as Senior Technical Training Staff and a Training Board Member for SDI & TDI from 2001 through 2004 and as the International Training Director for Emergency Response Diving International from 1999 through 2004.  In 2000, his innovative approach to the industry was recognized internationally when he was selected for inclusion in the International Who’s Who of Entrepreneurs.

In the non-diving community, Mike has been recognized for graduating with honors from Appalachian State University, was selected for the Who’s Who of American Law Students twice (‘94 & ‘95), is currently working toward an LLM Degree in Admiralty and is an active supporter and advocate for veterans of the United States Armed Forces.  

Mike can be reached by email at

Joe Odom

Joe Odom is the President of Professional Scuba Association International. Prior to accepting the position of President of PSAI, Joe served as the International Training Director of TDI/SDI/ERDI. Although specializing in cave and mixed gas diving, he has taught the full spectrum of technical and recreational diving through out the world in a variety of locations. He has been a cave instructor for both the NACD and the Cave Diving Section of the NSS. Joe has served two terms as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Cave Diving Section of the NSS.

Joe first used SCUBA in the mid 1960's while a member of a comjpetition swim team to clean the pool! It was much better than holding your breath and scrubbing. He prefers not to choose between salt water or fresh, cave or ocean, deep or shallow - keeping the principle that diving is better than not diving. It is untrue the rumors of him being seen in mud puddles however.

Joe has authored both articles and manuals for virtually every facet of technical diving. His manuals have included the first widely accepted sport rebreather manual as well as understandable versions of gas diving texts. He was featured as one of Diver Magazine's 40th Anniversary Divers and also was one of the lead instructors for the highly successful Tech Diver's Boot Camp.

Joe served two tours in the U.S. Air Force, then eight years at a leading independent testing laboratory, serving as the department Head of Physical Analysis and then as the Manager of Engineering, particularly interested in microelectronic analysis with Scanning Electron Microscopy and Energy Dispersive X-Ray (SEM/EDX).

Joe divides his time between diving and flying and holds an Airline Transport Pilot (ATP) certificate, a Certified Flight Instructor (Gold Seal) for both Single and Multiengine as well as Instrument Airplane. Additionally, he holds an Airframe and Power plant Mechanic certificate with Inspection Authorization. The FAA has designated him as an Accident Prevention Counselor for both flight and mechanic areas.

Joe was first licensed by the Federal Communications Commission in 1966 and how holds a General Radiotelephone Certificate with Ships Radar Endorsement as well as an Advanced Class license KD4MJ.

Joe is a Life Member of the National Speleological Society.

Joe's website is www.techdivesite.com

Mike Bourne
Mike Bourne is the South Eastern Regional Representative for Technical Divers International and for a number of equipment manufacturers in the same region.  He holds Instructor trainer Ratings for Advanced TRIMIX, Advanced Wreck and he is a Full Cave Instructor.  Mike is also an experienced expedition diver, in 2002, he was the lead rebreather instructor on Fathom’s Magazines shark diving expedition on Cocos Island and he was a primary instructor/logistics manager on Skin Diver Magazine's Sub-Aquatic Survivor 2002. 
Active in the Public Safety Diving Community, he is a Senior Instructor Trainer with Emergency Response Diving International and has also served as a dive team member and team Captain of the SCRUGGS Regional Dive Team in Southwestern Virginia. Mike has over 15 successful years in the diving industry, his other accomplishments include training hundreds of divers and dozens of instructors at all levels.  He co-founded New River Valley SCUBA Center in Christiansburg Virginia with his soon to be wife Dianne in 1988.  He first became an instructor with PADI in 1989, in 1990 he received his NSS-CDS certification in full cave and he has been certified in the TDI system since its first full year of business, 1994.  Mike now holds instructor trainer ratings with SDI/TDI at all levels and is a representative for some of the worlds most popular technical gear lines.  Although not active he also holds a Master Instructor Rating with PADI.
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