Ian France

Ian France is one of the UK’s top and most respected, technical diving Instructor Trainers with thousands of hours underground  and underwater. Ian specializes in Advanced Cave and Mine diving but is also been involved in nautical archaeology, commercial diving operations, safety and support diving, scientific diving and TV diving documentaries for the BBC and other broadcast networks. Currently most active in the North East UK’s ‘Graveyard’ project helping locate and identify shipwrecks, working with the Underwater Filming & Research (UFR) unit documenting wrecks in the Aegean Sea, and with Heritage Archeology projects in Greece.

A member of the Nordic Explorers, the British Cave Diving Group, a founding member of the UK Mine/Cave Diving & Exploration Group (UKMC, ), and a regular instructor, and speaker, at Tekcamp, Cave Camp, and Baltictech.