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Dr. Morgan Wells
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a According to an article
by dive instructor John Wosny in a 1993 "Sources" article, Wells
knows what it takes to be a good diver. The former director of the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Experimental Diving Unit
and Dive Programs at Fort Eustis, and an award winning researcher. |
| Wells began diving at the
age of 14, after making his own surface-supplied diving system out of a
paint sprayer and a motor scooter engine. Two years later, he made
an oxygen rebreather from war surplus parts by following diagrams in the
U.S. Navy Diving Manual, and by the age of 19, he was teaching scuba
classes at the college level.
During his 30 - career, he worked as a medical
school professor and research physiologist, as science coordinator for
NOAA's Manned Underwater Science and Technology office, as director of
NOAA Diving Programs, and finally as the director of NOAA's EDU and Dive
Programs. Dr. Wells is known for having lived on the ocean floor in
saturation habitats longer and in more different systems than any other
diver, said Wozny's article, and he has dived in numerous locations from
the Pacific to the Artic. He has designed and developed underwater diving
systems and researched and published tables that can be used to determine
gas mixtures for people using diving equipment. |
a Taken from insert to
the Gloucester-Mathews Gazette Journal, Oct. 2003 article.
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