Eveline Verdier

EVELINE VERDIER-Bollhalder

DIRrebreather Instructor Trainer

Workshops : fundamentals, Rescue, Mixed Gas, Support Diver, XTAD

Rebreathers : Inspiration Vision, Inspiration Classic, Evolution, Megalodon

Phone : +33 617 82 26 61

e-mail : evelineverdier@hotmail.com

web : www.tek-aventure.fr, www.sagascuba.com

EDUCATION

Scuba Diving Instructor

CMAS 3 Star Instructor

Moniter Fédéral 2ème Degré FFESSM

BS-AC Advanced Instructor

BEES 1° degree (French State Instructor)

DSAT Tec Deep Instructor Trainer

DSAT Trimix Instructor Trainer

TDI Trimix Instructor Trainer                 

TDI Mixed-Gas CCR Instructor Trainer

IANTD Mixed-Gas CCR Instructor

PADI-SDI Specialty Course Instructor Trainer

Underwater Navigation, Deep Diving, Search and Recovery, Night Diving, Equipment, Multilevel Diving, Drift Diving, Boat Diving, Underwater Naturalist, Dry Suit Diving, Altitude Diving, Oxygen Provider, Enriched Air Diving, U/W Photographer, Enriched Air Nitrox, Wreck diving, DPV Diving.

CPR and First Aid Instructor TrainerEFR Instructor Trainer

DAN Instructor Trainer

DAN Research Field Operator

SDI First Aid & CPR Instructor Trainer

Equipment Specialist

Technical Courses : Scubapro, Spiro, Draeger Dolphin and Ray

DSAT-TDI Trimix Gas Blender Instructor TrainerOther qualifications

Business and Accounting Superior Diploma

Car/Motorbike and Boat Driving License

NSS-CDS Full Cave Diver

Languages spoken : German, French, English and some Italian

AWARD: Member of Woman Divers Hall of Fame (2001)

WORK EXPERIENCE

* Since January 2009

Technical Training Manager for TEK Aventure, technical diving facility in Saint Rapahël, South of France

* Since February ’96

Instructor Trainer and co-founder of SAGA , training facility specialized in Instructor Level Training in Europe,  Seychelles Islands and the French West Indies (www.sagascuba.com)

* February  to August 2007

Residential Course Director for Dive In, “Centre of Excellence” in Limassol, Cyprus

* January 99 to December ‘01

Regional Manager for DAN Europe, Office France

* From March '95 to January ‘96

Free-Lance Consultant for several French Diving Schools and IDC Staff Instructor in France (IT-College) and Austria (TS Alte Donau, Vienna)

* From July '91 to December '94

Training and Operational Manager for Bär-Sport, PADI 5 Star IDC Dive Center in Wädenswil, Switzerland

* From August '90 to June '91

Accounting Manager for the Zürcher Kantonalbank in Thalwil, Switzerland

* From December '86 to June '90

Diving Instructor, Guest Relations and Front Office Manager for different Resorts in the Maldives (Eurodivers, Subaqua, Universal Islands, Safari Tours, TGI Maldives and Manta Reisen)

DIVING EXPERIENCE

Diving Instructor since 1987, with 4500 logged dives

2500 wreck dives

320 cave dives

900 Trimix dives

1200 Rebreather dives

150 Ice Dives 

First to dive on (Wrecks):

Natal (France),  -125m

Protée (France), -127m

Niedersachsen (France), -92m

SS Tirpitz (Italy), -92m

Ravenna (Italy), -92m

Da Noli (Corsica), -85m

HMS Manchester (Tunisie), - 90m