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 Rich Synowiec
Diving since:
1979
Current Level
of Certification: PADI Master Instructor, PADI IDC Staff
Instructor, DSAT Tec Trimix Instructor, Emergency First Response Instructor,
(Also
instructor level ANDI, TDI, NASDS, IANTD), Divers Alert Network Instructor
#12994
Other Certifications
Held (Diver Level): IANTD
TRIMIX DIVER, TDI Advanced Wreck Diver, ANDI Nitrox Diver, PSI Cylinder
Inspector, Certified to repair most major manufacturers equipment, PADI Public
Safety Diver
Member of the
Midwest Technical Recovery Team
Other Certifications
Held (instructor Level):
PADI Boat Diver, PADI Coral Reef Conservation and Awareness, PADI Deep Diver,
PADI Diver Propulsion Vehicle (DPV) Diver, PADI Drift Diver, PADI Dry Suit
Diver, PADI Enriched Air Diver, PADI Equipment Specialist, PADI Fish
Identification, PADI Ice Diver, PADI Ice Assistant PADI Multi-Level Diver, PADI
Night Diver, PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy, PADI Project Aware, PADI River
Diver, PADI Search and Recovery Diver, PADI Underwater Naturalist, PADI
Underwater Navigator, PADI Underwater Photographer, PADI Oxygen First Aid For
Divers, PADI Marine Life Injury Specialist, PADI AED for Divers, PADI Underwater
Videographer, PADI Wreck Diver, PADI Digital Underwater Photographer, DSAT Tec
Diver One, DSAT Tec Deep Diver, DSAT Tec Trimix Diver, DSAT Trimix/ Nitrox Gas
Blender, DAN Oxygen First Aid for Divers, DAN Oxygen First Aid for Aquatic
Injuries, DAN Advanced Oxygen First Aid for Scuba Divers, DAN First Aid for
Hazardous Marine Life Injuries, DAN Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs)
for Scuba Diving, DAN Automated External Defibrillators for Aquatic Emergencies
Favorite Dive Ever:
It's not so much the destination as the people you are with.
Tobermory, Canada, The first wreck dive with my wife, The Bahamas with my Dad,
Cooper River with everyone I dove that with, Mackinac Island Boat Dock,
Great Barrier Reef, Harsens Island at the Tashmoo dock.
Favorite Local Dive:
The Detroit River near Grosse Ile, Michigan
Favorite Great Lake
Shipwreck: It's hard to pick one since there
are five Great Lakes, The
Steamship Eber Ward in Lake Michigan (130ft), The Dredge barge Munson (106ft),
in Lake Ontario, The Tugboat Seabreeze in Lake Erie (20ft), The Steamer
Osborne in Lake Superior (180ft) and the Side-wheel Steamer Detroit in Lake
Huron (220ft).
What they would like
you to know about them: To me diving is more than a sport. It
is a culture, it is a way of life, and a passion that far exceeds anything
else I have known. I have been in and around water all of my life. I
had a scuba mask on before I could walk. I work in a dive center at least
6 days a week and I love my job. I have been diving in all the Great Lakes
and many of the worlds oceans. Although I have little time for pedigrees
and the like, I can say I have seen what few people
have seen and what many more cannot even imagine. I am fortunate enough to have been places
in this world that at the time my dive buddy and I were there, more people had
walked on the moon. With all that I have accomplished, I still feel
that there is a life time of diving left to do...
... so on my days off, I go diving.
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