From All John's friends at Brighton BSAC.
Born in1976, he attended Kings Manor School emerging with some academic success. He enjoyed his time in the Scouts, relishing the open air life and the company of his peers. He worked for several local companies, before being employed by Ricardo Engineering, Shoreham. He absorbed and retained knowledge at a prodigious rate, becoming a valuable employee, capable of working away from base on specialist projects around the world.
His interests were motorcycling and then scuba diving. He was trained locally and then joined Brighton BS-AC at the Sussex Yacht Club and became a reliable member, rebuilding parts of the dive boat engine and the club compressor. Ever restless he then moved on to becoming a ?regular? on BUCCANEER, gently encouraging us to discover ever more wreck sites and towards using a different dive gas to prolong and make our diving safer. He enjoyed several diving holidays with many friends, diving the Normandy shipwrecks and those around the Isles of Scilly.
The next stage was the training, purchase and use of a re-breather and that took him to more adventurous diving groups and other much deeper wrecks, mixing his own dive gases and happy to impart this and other knowledge to those who were interested.
Cave diving was the next passion, initially in the UK and then in France. Always returning to dive with his friends in the sea on a regular basis, whilst keeping us all agog with tales of further underground exploits and difficulties of ever deeper penetration, to discover what lay beyond.
As a person he was loyal, reliable, likeable, much loved and respected by all those whose lives he touched. Always ready to lend a helping hand, he was a joy to know. He was constantly seeking new horizons and kept a very large circle of friends of all ages and outlooks.
There is a saying that ?there are old divers and bold divers, but no old and bold divers?. But in this case, whilst he lived his life adventurously, he was always careful, entirely competent, he looked after his equipment well and understood exactly how it worked.
He will be very much missed by his friends and family.