GUE Instructor resumé

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Classes I teach:
Discover Diving
Recreational Supervised Diver
Recreational Diver 1 - Nitrox
Recreational Diver 3 - Trimix
GUE Fundamentals
Doubles Diver
Drysuit Diver
DPV Diver 1
DPV Cave
Cave Diver 1
Cave Diver 2
Cave Sidemount
PSCR Diver
Recreational Dive Leader

Professional

• Co-owner of Zero Gravity/DIR-Mexico
• GUE Cave Instructor for Zero Gravity

Diving Qualifications

• GUE Tech 2 Diver
• GUE RB80 Rebreather Instructor
• GUE Fundamentals Instructor / Instructor Evaluator
• GUE Cave 1, 2, 3 Instructor / Instructor Evaluator
• GUE DPV1 & DPV Cave Instructor / Instructor Evaluator
• GUE Sidemount Instructor
• GUE REC 1 & 3 Instructor

Diving Experience

• 25 years of diving
• 6000+ logged dives
• 4500+ cave dives
• 1500+ openwater dives
• 1000+ cave dives using Diver Propulsion Vehicles
• 2000+ cave dives using stage diving techniques
• 1000+ sidemount dives
• Longest Penetration - 19,000 ft
• Cave Passage Explored and Surveyed - +100,000 ft

Community Involvement

• Founding Member - GEO -(Grupo de Exploracion Ox Bel Ha 1998-2000) Founding Member - MCEP - (Mexico Cave Exploration Project 2000 to date)
• Exploration Diver for MCEP
• Member of CINDAQ
• Exploration Diver for the Balkans Karst Odyssey Project
• Cave exploration and survey of the following Systems: Actun Koh(1996), Minotauro(1997), Taj Mahal(1997), Grand Cenote (1998), Actun Chen(1998), Vaca Ha(1998), Ox Bel Ha (1998 to 2020), Naranjal(1999), Ayim(2000-2001), Pac Chen & Mariposa (2000), Carillo (2000), San Andres(2001), Punto Venado(2002), Yax Chen(2002- 2019), Maya(2004), Boca Paila & Kaapechen Sian Kaan Biosphere Reserve (2005-2017), Apocalypse (2006), Source of Zdena (2008), Exodus (2009), Source of Mracaj (2009), San Man Hai (2009), Tatich (2010), Batastisa (2010), Crvo Vrelo (2010), Bunice (2010), Fenomeno / Nariz (2015-2018), Camilo (2015-2017), Kantenah (2017), Sagitario (2017-2018), La Cola (2018). Buho (2019)
• Established connection between Sistema Del Mar and Esmeralda (Birnbach/Le Maillot - March 1999) to become Sistema Ox Bel Ha
• Established connection between Ox Bel Ha and the Caribbean Sea (Birnbach/Riordan/Le Maillot - August 1998)
• Established connection between San Man Hai China #4 & #5 (Devos/Le Maillot - Dec 2009)
• Support diver on science project with Beddow & Smith(1999, 2000), Werner(2001, 2003, 2004, 2010), Reinhardt(2007 to 2019)
• Production of Cave Maps
• Presenter at the GUE Conference in 2006 (Budapest), 2007 (Florida), 2009 (Florida) & CDAA (Cave Diving Association of Australia) conference 2010.
• Cave diving experience in Mexico, Belize, France, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Sardinia, China, Australia and Florida.

Special interests

• Trail running & cycling

Publications

• NACD Journal 2000, 2002 and 2003
• GUE Quest Magazine 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2016, 2019
• mcep.org.mx/science/Collins_2015_c.pdf
• The effect of seasonal rainfall on nutrient input and biological productivity in the Yax Chen cave system (Ox Bel Ha), Mexico, and implications for μXRF core studies of paleohydrology
• Chelsi A. McNeill-Jewer, Eduard G. Reinhardt, Shawn Collins, Shawn Kovacs, Winnie May Chan, Fred Devos, Chris Le Maillot
• Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
• Volume 534, 2019, 109289, ISSN 0031-0182,

Languages

• English, French, Spanish