Andreas W. Matthes (Matt)
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Matt is one of the founding members of the Training Facility as well as the Yucatan Deep Speleological Dive Team, the
Local Speleo Survey Project, and Mayatech. Along with the daily operations
of the facility, he is as well our training director and special projects
director. Originally from the Germany; he has lived, worked and dove
throughout Germany, Thailand, Honduras, Egypt, Northern and Southern United
States, Soloman Islands, Eastern Caribbean, Belize, Pacific and Eastern
Mexico. Matt has been training divers for the last nine years and has
certified hundreds of divers to various levels of training. Some of the
favorite locations that Matt currently guides and teaches including the deep
walls of Cozumel, the caves and caverns of the Riviera Maya, and the Deep
Caves of Yucatan, deep walls of the Honduras Bay Islands, wrecks and deep
walls along the Mexican Pacific coast. Courses can be taught in German,
English, and Spanish. He is jointly responsible for the blending of Nitrox
and Trimix here in the store, for our student and divers to use and gases
used by other local exploration projects |
IANTD Instructor for: |
NSS-CDS Instructor for: |
Open Water through Divemaster
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Cavern Diver
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Nitrox Diver
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Introduction to Cave
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Advanced Nitrox Diver
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Apprentice Cave Diver
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Deep Air Diver
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Full Cave Diver
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Technical Diver
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Stage Diving
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Trimix Diver
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DPV Pilot & Sidemount Diver
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Life Support Service Technician
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Survey - Cartography
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Nitrox Blender - Trimix Blender
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Instructor Sponsor and NSS-
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Cavern Diver through Cave Diver
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CDS Training Rep. for Mexico |
Advanced Cave Diver
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Technical Cave Diver
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Rebreather Instructor Draegar Dolphin |
NACD Instructor for:
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Cavern Diver
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IANTD Instructor Trainer for:
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Introduction to Cave
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Open Water Instructor
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Apprentice Cave Diver
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Nitrox Instructor
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Full Cave Diver
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Advanced Nitrox Instructor
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Deep Diver Instructor
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IANTD Instructor Trainer Trainer
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Open Water DIver to Nitrox
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Deep Diver & Advanced Nitrox
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TDI Instructor for:
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Blender Nitrox to Trimix
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Nitrox Diver
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Advanced Nitrox Diver
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PADI Instructor for:
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Decompression Procedures
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Open Water through Divemaster
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Extended Range Diver
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Deep Diver - Nitrox Diver
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Technical Nitrox Instructor
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U/W Naturalist - Boat Diver
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Trimix and Adv. Trimix Diver
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U/W Photographer - Cavern Diver
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Nitrox Blender - Trimix Blender
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Search and Recovery Diver
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Advanced Gas Blender
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Night Diver - Wreck Diver
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Service Technician
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Multilevel Diver - Drift Diver
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Medic First Aid Instructor
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PADI Master Instructor
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Affilations and Awards
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Dan O2 Provider Instructor
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PATD Instructor for:
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Member NSS-CDS
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Cavern to Full Cave Diver
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Yucatan Speleo. Diving Society
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Wreck Diver
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Cambrian Foundation
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Nitrox, Advanced Nitrox |
Abe Davis Award
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Technical Nitrox Diver
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Explorers Club
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Trimix Diver
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Int. Cave Diving Safety Award
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Cave Diving Specialty Courses
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Member NACD
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Member IANTD
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Member TDI
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PATD Instructor Trainer for:
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Q.R.S.S.
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Cavern to Full Cave
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Cave Diving Specialty courses
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Specialized User for:
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Nitrox and Advanced Nitrox
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Cis Lunar MK 5 CCR
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Technical Nitrox
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Buddy Inspiration CCR
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Draeger Dolphin SCR
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Participant in the following exploration, expeditions and projects:
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Great Blue Hole of Belize Expedition 1995
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Nohoch Nachich Cave Exploration Expedition 1996
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Chak Mol Cave Survey and Mapping Project 1996
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Great Blue Hole of Belize Expediton 1997
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Great Lake DeepWreck Diving Project 1997
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Yucatan Cave Exploration and Survey Project 1997
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Nohoch Nachich Cave Exploration Expedition 1997
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The Pit Exploration and Survey Expedition 1997
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Yucatan Cave Exploration and Survey Project 1998
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Nohoch Nachich Cave Exploration Expedition 1998
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Solomon Island Wreck and Cave Exploration Expedition 1998
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Wakulla 2 Exploration and Survey Expedition 1998
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Yucatan Cave Exploration and Survey Project 1999
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Wakulla 2 Exploration and Survey Expedition 1999
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Yucatan cave exploration, survey and study project 2000
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Bacalar Cave Exploration Project 2001
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Homun Cave Exoloration project 2001
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Nohoch Adventure Expedition 2001
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Local Speleo Survey Project 2001 & 2002
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Hidden World Scientific and Documentation Expedition - National
Geographic/Karst Productions/INAH - 2002 |
Diving History: 12 years
of Diving Experience
3300+
logged dives
1300+
logged Cave dives
600+
logged cavern dives
425 fsw /
130 mtr deepest Wreck dive
470 fsw /
143 mtr deepest open water dive
500 fsw /
153 mtr deepest cave dive
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