Los Angeles November 14, 2007 5:30 PM, Blu Vu Deep (BV) a leader in Rebreather Diving technology for oil and gas exploration announces that Vice President Jeff Bozanic Wins 2007 DAN/Rolex Diver of the Year Award
Blu Vu Vice President and Director of Technology Jeff Bozanic, Ph.D., renowned dive educator, researcher and trainer of numerous diving specialties, has been named the 2007 DAN/Rolex Diver of the Year. In making the announcement before the formal presentation at Seaspace in Houston, DAN President and CEO Dan Orr cited Bozanic’s thousands of hours of volunteer service to help promote Divers Alert Network (DAN). Since becoming an instructor, originally with the National Association of Underwater Instructors (NAUI) and other organizations of specialty diving, Dr. Bozinac has been tireless in his efforts to improve diving safety, especially in the areas of cave diving and technical diving education, Orr said. “For the past 23 years, he has indeed been an unwavering friend of DAN”.
Dr. Bozinac has a lengthy résumé, including promotion of cave diving safety and education, promotion of safety and education in scientific diving and the promotion of general diving education,” Orr said. “He is widely published in all these areas, and he is a prolific speaker and instructor in many facets of diving and related safety concerns.” Since the early 1980s, Bozanic has conducted wide-ranging research, including participation in 23 expeditions and projects ranging from faunal research in the inland and marine caves of Palau to evaluating the reliability of dive regulators and computers in polar waters at McMurdo Station, Antarctica. In addition, as a dive locker technician at McMurdo and Palmer Stations, Antarctica, Bozanic participated in biological, hydrological, ice and pollution research, collecting preliminary data using Doppler monitoring of research divers.
He has penned more than 150 articles, and he has written or provided technical reviews for many magazines and diving textbooks. Notably, he co-authored the Antarctic Scientific Diving Manual and has written chapters for texts for the National Association of Cave Divers (NACD) and National Speleological Society Cave Diving Section (NSS-CDS). A certified hyperbaric technician (CHT), Bozanic is also an associate member of the Undersea Hyperbaric and Medical Society. He is an active volunteer for the Catalina Hyperbaric Chamber in California. While he served as a board member of the International Underwater Cave Rescue and Recovery Inc. (IUCRR), Bozanic assisted law enforcement agencies in investigation of underwater accidents, rescue attempts and recoveries.
Among many dive industry commendations, Dr. Bozanic has received the NAUI Outstanding and Continuing Service Awards; the Silver Wakulla and Abe Davis Awards for safe cave diving; and the SSI Platinum Pro 5000 Award. In 2002, he joined the NAUI Hall of Honor. Dr. Bozanic holds doctorate degrees in education, an MBA and a master’s degree in environmental education.
About the Company
Blu Vu Deep is an Oil & Gas Exploration company focused on the development of deep-sea exploration technology for the oil and gas industries. Blu Vu Deep Oil & Gas Exploration has a strategy of growth through industry marketing of patented Rebreather technology solutions that will increase productivity and is building the technological foundation for the next generation of deep-sea oil and gas discoveries. Blu Vu Deep Oil & Gas Exploration is committed to innovative technologies that will create wealth through increased oil and gas extraction while leaving the smallest footprint. Blu Vu Deep Oil & Gas Exploration will position itself to become the ocean exploration technology of choice, offering sustained safe deep-sea diving solutions for the Oil and Gas industry.
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