DIVE 2008
Speaker Presentations
Make a date with diving's big names
Britain's Dive Shows are renowned for attracting as presenters the world's leading divers, all with their own specialities – wreck divers and wildlife experts; photographers and film-makers; free-divers, cave-divers and explorers.
Speakers at DIVE 2008 include:
Sara Campbell • John Bantin • Mark Ellyatt
Monty Halls • Jack Ingle • Richard Peirce
Saeed Rashid & Alex Mustard
Mike Rutzen
Sara Campbell
World-Class Freediving
Sara Campbell was the first Brit (if you don’t count multi-national Tanya Streeter) to break into freediving’s big time when she set three world records. At the time of writing, two of these have been overtaken and she is out to get them back. So she is set to attract a fantastic turnout at the Show as she looks back at her achievements and forward to new goals. Based in Dahab, Egypt, Sara perfects her art regularly in the Blue Hole – ideal training conditions at a site often used for freediving competitions.
John Bantin
A Job To Do
John Bantin has been writing about his experiences in DIVER
for more than 18 years. As an advertising photographer, he made his name with a poster campaign for Guinness. That’s a tough business with no room for failure, and he applies the same
rules for magazine journalism. He writes about the diving he does, the places he visits and the equipment he uses, and
backs it up with high-quality photos. As you might imagine, he has collected many an anecdote over the years, and at the NEC plans to let you into a few of his secrets!
Mark Ellyatt 
Deep Wreck Adventures
Mark Ellyatt became a diving household name back in 2004
when he plumbed 313m in Thailand to become the world’s deepest diver. Mark, a regular DIVER contributor, is a dedicated technical-diving instructor, and passes on his expertise around the world. Recently he has been carrying out serial dives on the incredible HMS Victoria, a historic vessel planted upright in deep waters off troubled Lebanon, and a treasure-trove of 19th century secrets.
Monty Halls 
Beachcomber Cottage
Monty has been a regular on our screens with his Great Ocean Adventures TV series and Swimming with Giants film, taking us
to dream locations for encounters with marine species high on our wish-lists. His next outing is Beachcomber Cottage, an
eight-part series to be shown on BBC early next year. Monty will be living on a remote beach on Scotland’s west coast, filming
the animals on land and diving and snorkelling with some of the seasonal marine visitors. Come along for a sneak preview.
Jack Ingle 
Kit Configuration
Long-time Dive Show favourite wreck/tek diver Jack takes
us on a tour of kit-configuration, looking at how to set up all sorts of diving equipment, from singles through twin-sets to rebreathers, in the most tidy, convenient and streamlined way. Want to look good on the dive deck? Here’s how.
Richard Peirce 
Sharks in British Seas
Richard Peirce is one of Britain’s leading shark conservationists and has made it his mission to try to bring the existence of the
30-plus species found in our waters to public attention. He recently began work with Simon Spear putting together a film to go with his new book, Sharks in British Seas – and if you go
along to his talk, you’ll get to see a preview.
Saeed Rashid & Alex Mustard
Digital Photo Clinic
Photoshop guru Saeed Rashid and leading underwater photographer Alex Mustard will be ready to answer all your digital photography questions in the popular Digital Clinic
Mike Rutzen
The Sharkman
This talk promises to be a tonic – and that’s the subject,
Mike’s amazing attempts to “hypnotise” sharks with ever-more fearsome reputations into a trance-like state of “tonic immobility”. His feats have been captured in the Sharkman documentaries, and Discovery Channel is backing his quest. He has dived cageless with great whites – but could he put a full-sized one
into a trance?
And watch out - there will be more show names to come!
The Show Scene
