LXD059 : Bret Gilliam

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Bret Gilliam – Diving Industry Legend

In this episode of The League of Extraordinary Divers I chat with legendary diving industry professional Bret Gilliam.

Todays guest has done just about everything in diving.

Bio

Bret Gilliam has been professionally involved in the diving industry since 1971, a career now spanning over 50 years. Since beginning diving in 1959, he has logged over 19,000 dives around the world. His background includes scientific expeditions, military/commercial projects, operating hyperbaric diving treatment facilities, liveaboard dive vessels and luxury yachts, retail dive store & Caribbean resort operation and ownership, as well as filming projects for movies, television series, and documentaries. He was founder and President of six multi-national diving companies including V. I. Divers Ltd., AMF Yacht Charters, Ocean Quest Cruise Line, TDI/SDI, UWATEC, DiveSafe Insurance, and four diving magazines. He is President of the consulting corporation, OCEAN TECH, since founding that company in 1971.

Items In This Podcast

• Meeting Ernest Hemingway
• Worked bring fish to aquariums at 11 years of age
• Navy diving
• Filming The Deep
• Onboard The Calypso
• Creating a diving cruise line
• Starting IANTD
• Starting TDI
• Diving with Lauren Hutton
• Diving Pioneers and Innovators
• Deep Diving Revised
• Mixed Gas Diving Book

Sponsor

Special thanks to our episode sponsor Aggressor Adventures

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