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Brett Eliason

Brett Eliason is a GUE trained Cave diver and Technical diver. He has a special fondness for wreck exploration here in the waters of the Pacific Northwest. He is also obsessed with the Yucatan Peninsula caves, and the Floridian aquifers.

Joe Radosevic

Joe Radosevic is a GUE-trained cave/technical diver and a SCRET mixed gas exploration diver residing in Auburn, WA. He has a passion for wrecks and the history that accompanies them equaled by an obsession for the caves of the Yucatan Peninsula and the geological and cultural history of the area.

John Sharps

John Sharps is a GUE trained technical diver living in Bellevue, WA. His interests are in wreck discovery and exploration as well as maritime history. In October of 2005 his research was instrumental in locating a lost WWII TBF-1 Avenger aircraft in Lake Washington.

Laurynn Evans

Laurynn Evans is a GUE trained cave diver and technical diver who has a strong interest in marine biology, cave geology, and general water ecology issues. She has enjoyed participating in a number of SCRET dive projects since 2004, most often in the role of in-water support diver.

Mark Tourtellot

Mark Tourtellot is the owner of Pacific Rim Aquatics, LLC, d/b/a 5th Dimension Scuba Diving Center and one of SCRET's senior mixed gas divers.

Peo Orvendal

Peo Orvendal is a passionate wreck diver, who has a strong interest in maritime subjects and history. He grew up and spent the first part of his adult life in Sweden, where he started diving the wrecks of the Baltic Sea in the late 1990s. Today, he is an exploration diver in SCRET, and a founder of the Pacific Northwest Tech Diving non-profit. He holds technical and cave certifications from GUE.

Pete Gelbman

Pete Gelbman has been fascinated with all things underwater since childhood. Working professionally as a communications engineer, he spends much of his time traveling and loves exploring reefs, wrecks, and caves around the world at every opportunity. Pete has been diving Puget Sound wrecks with the SCRET team since 2005, after a job relocation brought him to Seattle.

Richard Brown

Richard Brown is a GUE trained cave and technical diver. Diving since 2000,he is interested in all facets of diving, from reefs to deep wrecks andcaves. He really enjoys the Yucatan peninsula and the Mayan culture.

Walter Jaccard

Walter Jaccard is a wreck diver, aquatic explorer, and founding member of Submerged Cultural Resources Exploration Team (SCRET). He has been diving the waters of Puget Sound since 1967 and has a special passion for Northwest shipwrecks.