GUE Instructor resumé



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Classes I teach:
Advanced Open Water Diver
Master Diver
GUE Performance Diver
GUE Basic Fundamentals
GUE Technical Fundamentals
Doubles Primer
Drysuit Primer
Navigation Primer
Rescue Primer
Deep Primer

Xavier Vrijdag

Auckland, New Zealand
Zaandam, Netherlands

+64 2102304558
xavier@gue.com


Professional

  • Senior Research Fellow in diving medicine at the University of Auckland
  • Board member South Pacific Underwater Medical Society (SPUMS)

Education

  • BSc and Msc in Technical Medicine, University of Twente
  • PhD in Anaesthesiology, University of Auckland "Monitoring gas narcosis in hyperbaric environments"
  • Royal Australian Navy Medical Officer Underwater Medicine course

Diving Qualifications

  • GUE: Tech1, Tech2, CCR1, documentation diver, DPV, Instructor
  • TDI: JJ-CCR helitrox diver
  • NACD: full cave diver
  • SSI: freediving, recreational, technical and cave instructor
  • DAN: BLSD & oxygen provider instructor

Diving Experience

  • 2000+ dives
  • 200+ cave dives
  • 150+ wreck dives
  • 150+ decompression dives
  • 200+ hours CCR diving

Community Involvement

  • Speaker at local club events, OzTek and TecFest NZ
  • project diver at HMS buffalo re-examination project
  • project diver at Crayfish survey around Waiheke island

Special interests

  • Underwater hockey
  • Diving physiology

Publications

  • You can find my scientific publications at: https://profiles.auckland.ac.nz/x-vrijdag/publications

Languages I teach classes in

  • Dutch
  • English

Additional languages

  • Dutch and English