About
Will Goodman
World-record technical diver, TDI Instructor Trainer and founder of Black Water Tek.
Will developed a passion for diving when he learned to dive in Cornwall, UK. He was quickly captivated by the abundance of shipwrecks along the south coast and developed an interest in technical diving. By 2005, he became a TDI Advanced Trimix Technical Diving Instructor and CCR diver.
Will is a full-time technical diving instructor who has been based on the Gili Islands in Indonesia for 20 years. He began by managing Blue Marlin Dive Tech and spent six seasons as the trip director for a Komodo liveaboard. He currently has over 7,000 logged dives, 5,000 of which are technical, with 4,000 of those conducted on CCR.
He has been actively teaching CCR since 2009, and in 2011 began exclusively teaching the JJ-CCR, accumulating over 3,000 hours on the unit in demanding conditions and environments. In 2013 he became an Instructor Trainer for TDI at all levels.
In 2014, after two years of research and training, Will and his team set the world record for the deepest dive in the ocean on an unmodified CCR, taking his JJ to 290m without incident. In 2019, Will founded Black Water Tek and became Indonesia's factory-approved service technician for the JJ-CCR.
Career Milestones
Two decades at the leading edge of technical diving
- 2005 Became a TDI Advanced Trimix Technical Diving Instructor and CCR diver.
- 2005, 2008, 2010 Set Guinness World Records for the longest open saltwater scuba dive, the longest lasting just over 48 hours.
- 2011 Began exclusively teaching the JJ-CCR, accumulating over 3,000 hours on the unit.
- 2013 Became an Instructor Trainer for TDI at all levels.
- 2014 Set the world record for the deepest dive on an unmodified CCR, 290m on the JJ-CCR, and presented at ADEX 2014.
- 2019 Founded Black Water Tek and became Indonesia’s factory-approved service technician for the JJ-CCR.
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