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Matt Harris (FI'09) has worked as a treasure hunter in the Bahamas, skippered a liveaboard in the Caymans, delivered private sail and motor yachts around the East Coast US, Cuba and Caribbean, worked as a rebreather test diver for Drager, run the dive program aboard one of the worlds most prestigious mega-yachts in the Med and helped establish the dive operation at Bikini Atoll where he was part of the team who conducted the first ever mixed gas dives on the USS Saratoga which also included ANZEC member Kevin Denlay (FI'98). He also led an underwater archaeological survey of Jaluit Atoll in the Marshall Islands where with his wife Lucy, they were the first divers to document, photograph and film one of the only remaining US Navy Douglas Devastator's for the US National Park Service. Matt also ran a remote dive expedition travel company specialising in organising and leading advanced dive expeditions to UK military and civilian divers to such places as Mozambique, Bikini, Truk and Madagascar.

Matt is a qualified SCUBA instructor, technical deep air and mixed gas supervisor and Yachtmaster. His photography and writing has been published and translated worldwide in almost every dive magazine and countless adventure travel and wildlife magazines; his underwater filming has also been broadcast on television. He has lectured at various clubs and companies around the UK and also at the Explorers Club in NY. He holds an MA in Interactive Digital Media and is creative and founding director of interactive communications agency Pixelwork; he is also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, a keen downhill mountain biker, triathlete, cyclist and snowboarder.

Photo by James D.Watt

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