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BACKGROUND</font></b></span></td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td height="20"></td> <td height="20"></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="20" colspan="2"> <div align="center"> <center> <table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bordercolor="#375F9F" bordercolorlight="#375F9F" bordercolordark="#375F9F"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="images/adamaktunhu.jpg" width="700" height="525"></td> </tr> </table> </center> </div> <p align="center"><span lang="EN-US"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2" face="Verdana"><span style="font-weight: bold">NATIONALITY </span></font></span></p> <p align="center"><span lang="EN-US"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2" face="Verdana"> British</font></span></p> <p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0;"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2" face="Verdana"><span style="font-weight: bold">Current project in Tulum:</span> build our own dive center and equipment retail shop in order to organize cave/tech courses, logistic for divers, other team and/or instructors. </font></p> <p align="left" style="margin-top: 0;"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2" face="Verdana">We will provide you with all you need for a super cave diving vacation here in the Riviera. </font></p> <p align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0;"><span lang="EN-US"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2" face="Verdana"></font></span></p> <p align="center" style="margin-top: 0;"><span lang="EN-US"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2" face="Verdana"><span style="font-weight: bold">BACKGROUND</span></font></span></p> <p align="justify"><span lang="EN-US"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2" face="Verdana"> Born in England, he spent most of his life in Italy.</font></span></p> <p align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0;"><span lang="EN-US"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2" face="Verdana">In 1986, he graduated from the European Business School in London with a specialization in Finance.</font></span></p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;"><span lang="EN-US"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2" face="Verdana">He joined London Forfaiting Company PLC in London, where he began trading international trade finance receivables.</font></span></p> <p align="justify"><span lang="EN-US"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2" face="Verdana">In 1987, he moved to the Milan subsidiary, where he structured export finance packages for Italian manufacturers of capital goods. He became a company director in 1991.</font></span></p> <p align="justify"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2" face="Verdana">In 1996, he returned to the London head office and traded the portfolio of assets originated in the Milan, Paris and Barcelona subsidiaries. He was responsible for sales and marketing in the Middle East and Africa.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2" face="Verdana">In 2001, he became a freelance translator of financial documents for listed Italian companies. </font></p> <p align="justify"><span lang="EN-US"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2" face="Verdana">While living in Europe, he actively pursued technical diving in the lakes of northern Italy and wreck diving in the Mediterranean and the North Sea.</font></span></p> <p align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0;"><span lang="EN-US"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2" face="Verdana">In 2004, he joined Ela in Florida and their lives changed when they started cave diving. The following year, they honeymooned at the up<span lang="EN-US"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2" face="Verdana">-</font></span>market High Springs Country Inn!!! <br> </font></span></p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0;"><span lang="EN-US"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2" face="Verdana">They decided to move immediately to Mexico to pursue their passion and early 2006 start their own cave diving company and began their apprenticeship to become NSS<span lang="EN-US"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2" face="Verdana">-</font></span>CDS cave instructors under the mentorship of some of the best cave diving instructors and explorers in the Riviera Maya and Florida.</font></span></p> <p align="justify"><span lang="EN-US"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2" face="Verdana">2007 <span lang="EN-US"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2" face="Verdana">-</font></span> became NSS<span lang="EN-US"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2" face="Verdana">-</font></span>CDS Basic Cave instructors</font></span></p> <p align="justify"><span lang="EN-US"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2" face="Verdana">2008 <span lang="EN-US"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2" face="Verdana">-</font></span> became NSS<span lang="EN-US"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2" face="Verdana">-</font></span>CDS Cave instructors. </font></span></p> <p align="justify"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2" face="Verdana">2010 - became UTD (Unified Team Diving) Cave 1 instructors. </font></p> <p align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0;"><span lang="EN-US"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2" face="Verdana"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></font></span></p> EXPLORATION P[ROJECTS <p align="center" style="; font-weight: bold"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2" face="Verdana">EXPLORATION PROJECTS </font></p> <p align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0;"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2" face="Verdana"><span style="font-weight: bold">Cenote Divino </span>(Puerto A. area, 2007, surveyed passages 330mt/1082 ft, max depth 25.6 mt/84 ft, Cenote 1) </font><strong> Ixchel</strong> (Puerto A. area, 2008,surveyed passages 1887 mt/6192 ft, max depth 20.4 mt/67 ft, Cenotes connecte<strong>a K'u Pix</strong> (Puerto A. area, 2009, 459 mt/1506 ft, max depth 5.8 mt/19 ft, Cenotes connected 3)</p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top:0;"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2" face="Verdana"><span style="font-weight: bold">Sistema Ixchel </span>(Puerto A. area, 2008, surveyed passages 1887 mt/6192 ft, max depth 20.4 mt/67 ft, Cenotes connected 3) </font></p> <p align="justify"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2" face="Verdana"> <span style="font-weight: bold">Sistema K'u Pix</span> (Puerto A. area, 2009, 459 mt/1506 ft, max depth 5.8 mt/19 ft, Cenotes connected 3)</font></p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="center" style="margin-bottom: 0;; font-weight: bold"><span lang="EN-US"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2" face="Verdana">DIVING QUALIFICATIONS </font></span></p> <p align="center" style="margin-top: 0;"><span lang="EN-US"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2" face="Verdana"><br> UTD Cave 1 instructor</font></span></p> <p align="center"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2" face="Verdana">UTD Overhead Protocols instructor</font></p> <p align="center"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2" face="Verdana">UTD Essentials INSTRUCTOR (of Rec, Tech and over head)</font></p> <p align="center"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2" face="Verdana">UTD Rec 1, 2, 3 instructor </font></p> <p align="center"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2" face="Verdana">UTD Nitrox instructor </font></p> <p align="center"><span lang="EN-US"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2" face="Verdana">NSS-CDS Cave Instructor #364</font></span></p> <p align="center"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2" face="Verdana">UTD Trimix 1 diver </font></p> <p align="center"><span lang="EN-US"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2" face="Verdana">NSS<span lang="EN-US"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2" face="Verdana">-</font></span>CDS DPV diver </font></span></p> <p align="center"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2" face="Verdana">NSS CDS Stage diver </font></p> <p align="center" style="margin-bottom: 0;"><span lang="EN-US"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2" face="Verdana">NSS<span lang="EN-US"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2" face="Verdana">-</font></span>CDS Sidemount diver </font></span></p> <p align="center" style="margin-top: 0; 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