Mark Ellyatt

Mark Ellyatt
Born	UK
Occupation	technical diver & Instructor
Website
http://www.inspired-training.com

Mark Ellyatt is a British technical diver and instructor. He teaches technical diving all over the world, including Egypt, Lebanon and Greece.

World records

Mark Ellyatt held the record for the world's deepest dive reaching 313m in 2003 35 miles off the coast of Phuket, Thailand after a dive lasting 7 hours, beating John Bennett's previous 308m record.^[1][2] - Ellyatt's dive computer reading from the dive was not made available.^[3]

In 2003, during a previous extreme deep diving attempt Ellyatt suffered extreme isobaric counterdiffusion (ICD) during decompression, and only survived the dive by virtue of being rescued by his support divers.^[4] ICD is a common malady in extreme deep diving, and nearly claimed the lives of John Bennett in his world record setting deep dive, and Don Shirley also suffered extremely serious ICD during the dive which killed Dave Shaw.

HMS Victoria

He also discovered the wreck of the battleship HMS Victoria in Lebanon in 2004, sitting in 150m off of Tripoli. The wreck sits on its end, rising up from the seabed - described as being its 'own underwater tombstone'.^[5]

Ocean Gladiator

Mark Ellyat has written about his early diving experiences and later record attempts in his book Ocean Gladiator, published in 2005.^[6]

References

1. ^ Ellyatt, M. "Solo 313m Depth Record". http://www.inspired-training.com/depth_record.htm. Retrieved 2008-07-23. 
2. ^ "A journey to 308 Meters". Archived from the original on 2008-07-20. http://web.archive.org/web/20080720023247/http://www.tech-dive-academy.com/journey.html. Retrieved 2008-07-23. 
3. ^ "Scuba Records - deep records". http://www.scubarecords.com/DeepRecords.htm. Retrieved 2010-04-29. 
4. ^ Smith, Alithea (2006-08-08). "Mark Ellyatt's Ocean Gladiator". http://www.benthic.ca/report.cfm?report=37. Retrieved 2011-06-20. 
5. ^ Diving-News.com. "HMS Victoria’s Secret - Lebanon". http://www.diving-industry.com/news/2006/03/31/hms-victorias-secret-lebanon/. Retrieved 2008-07-23. 
6. ^ Ellyatt, M. "OCEAN GLADIATOR: Battles beneath the ocean". http://www.inspired-training.com/ocean%20gladiator_read_online.htm. Retrieved 2008-07-23. 

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