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Dr. Morgan Wells

a According to an article by dive instructor John Wosny in a 1993 "Sources" article, Wells knows what it takes to be a good diver. The former director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Experimental Diving Unit and Dive Programs at Fort Eustis, and an award winning researcher. 
Wells began diving at the age of 14, after making his own surface-supplied diving system out of a paint sprayer  and a motor scooter engine. Two years later, he made an oxygen rebreather from war surplus parts by following diagrams in the U.S. Navy Diving Manual, and by the age of 19, he was teaching scuba classes at the college level. 

During his 30 - career, he worked as a medical school professor and research physiologist, as science coordinator for NOAA's Manned Underwater Science and Technology office, as director of NOAA Diving Programs, and finally as the director of NOAA's EDU and Dive Programs.  Dr. Wells is known for having lived on the ocean floor in saturation habitats longer and in more different systems than any other diver, said Wozny's article, and he has dived in numerous locations from the Pacific to the Artic. He has designed and developed underwater diving systems and researched and published tables that can be used to determine gas mixtures for people using diving equipment.

Taken from insert to the Gloucester-Mathews Gazette Journal, Oct. 2003 article.

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