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Instructor Profiles | Bruno Estirac-Rateau

  • Level of Instructor: Master Scuba Diver Trainer
  • Diving Since: 1967
  • Teaching with Sharky's: Since 2000
  • Teaching Specialties: Equipment Specialist, Dry Suit, Deep Diver, Navigation, Search And Recovery, Night Diver, Boat Diver, Underwater Videographer, Underwater Photographer, Wreck Diver, Oxygen First Aid, MFA
  • Special Credentials: Medical First Aid Instructor
  • Distinctive Teaching Specialties: Oxygen First Aid
  • # of divers certified: 100+

The team work and silence attracts me most to diving by the. My advice to a new diver is take your time. Work hard and learn more every day.

Diving Career Highlights

  • The precious moments I've spent with Philippe Tailliez, one of the oldest French divers and formally JY Cousteau's Commander in the French Navy.
  • Sharring a good meal and good wine with Albert Falco, Captain of the Calypso

Bruno's Top 3 Diving Destinations

  1. Corsica: for the water quality and the its walls
  2. Sicily: War wrecks
  3. Greece: Acheological artifacts and its history