Phil started diving in 1990 from a background of dry caving and climbing and at first only completed a PADI open water diver course in order to use SCUBA to pass short flooded sections of dry caves in Mendip and South Wales. He then continued his open water training and in 1991 he qualified as a PADI instructor and began teaching full time, working his way up to Master Instructor..   Over the years, Phil has been involved in film projects for ITV, BBC and Channel 4 on the M1 submarine, the shipwrecks from the battle of Jutland and cave diving projects in Northern Spain and the UK. He recently trained the presenters and assisted with the filming of the BBC Oceans series. He has also taken part as a closed circuit rebreather diver in several shipwreck search projects in the Western Pacific and the Gulf of Mexico.   He has also been leading a continuing cave exploration project in the Ural Mountains in Russia and digging underwater in his pet project Swildon's Hole in the Mendips UK.   Phil has been diving professionally for 15 years and has logged over 5000 dives in caves and open water using both open and closed circuit equipment. Phil Visited us in 2009, and instructed both Oruboros and Sentinal CCRs courses. he also gave us a lecture about the CCRs and about his advantures in Ural