TECHNICALLY SPEAKING

About the Author

Bill Nadeau was born in Northern Ontario and grew up on, in and around the water. When he finished high school he opened his first dive shop in Bala, running charters in the heart of cottage country. When Bill graduated from the University of Guelph he went on to apply his technical diving background and experience as a commercial diver to a variety of positions in the diving industry including recovery operations for federal and provincial police forces. A licensed Master with Transport Canada he has skippered day charters and live-aboards in Canada and the Caribbean teaching cave, rebreather and mixed gas courses along the way.

After completing tenures as a Rescue Diver for the Canadian Coast Guard and a research diver for Canada Parks and various public aquariums and environmental companies, Bill eventually went on to become a regular member of the RCMP and a past member of the URT (Underwater Recovery Team). Retired as the National Training Director and Licensee for the International Association of Nitrox and Technical Divers (IANTD), he continues to sit on IANTD's Board of Advisors and is a Contributing Editor for Scuba Schools International (SSI) Technical Diving Project Development Team.

With over two decades of technical and commercial diving experience in all kinds of environments around the world, he has applied his background and experience to the development of the technical diving industry by authoring a number of training manuals and materials for several training agencies. His photographs and articles on scuba diving and marine exploration appear in dozens of magazines and journals around the world. He is a Technical Instructor Trainer Trainer (ITT) and holds Instructor certifications with a variety of licensing agencies including PADI, IANTD, TDI, SSI, NASDS and DAN.