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Company Profile: Meet the Adventure Team
Incredible Adventures offers you the knowledge
and experience of the top adventure experts from around the world.
We're here to make your adventure dreams come true.
Hawke
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| Hawke - SpecOps |
Co-founder and Operations Officer of SpecOps Global Survival Training.
Responsibilities include: operations management, logistics, course
development and instruction. Background: Hawke has over 20 years
of combined military and government experience. He has served in
the enlisted ranks of the U.S. Army's Special Forces as well as
a commissioned officer and as a government contractor abroad. He
has training and experience in communications and intelligence operations,
emergency trauma medicine management, combat search and rescue,
and languages. He has deployed to hotspots throughout Eastern Europe,
the Middle-East, Latin America and Africa. Hawke has worked with
the U.S. Department of State, the United Nations, various agencies
& Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). His accomplishments include
the establishment and operation of a Combat Medic School in Azerbaijan
and a Combat Search & Rescue Program in Colombia. He has also served
as
a Project Manager in Haiti and Sierra Leone, conducting Medical
Evacuations, Troops & Munitions Re-supply, Rapid Response Force
and VIP transport. He most recently served in Afghanistan as a Commander
of Mujahideen Militia against Taliban and Al-Qaeda Forces. Hawke
is also an experienced outdoor survival instructor, published author
and lecturer on crisis responses to manmade and natural disasters
and authors a language training book. Hawke represented SpecOps
on MTV Road Rules in 1999 on-camera & in program development, he
has recently worked on The Discovery Channel. Training Highlights:
Special Forces Detachment Commander course - 18A Combined Arms Service
Staff School - (CAS3) Officer Advanced Course - Civil Affairs -
38A Officer Advanced Course- Infantry - 11A Medical Service Officer
Course - 70B Survival, Escape, Resistance & Evasion (SERE, Level-
C) Special Operations Medical Sergeant Course (18D) Special Forces
Morse Code & Communications Course (18E) Special Forces Intelligence
and Operations Course (18F) Advanced Non Commissioned Officer Course
(ANCOC) Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) National Registry EMT
Paramedic Combat Anesthesia Advanced Cardiac Life Support Combat
Chemical Casualty Care Special Forces Jump Master Course Defense
Language Institute (Russian) Blackbelt - Aikido Scuba Diver Languages:
Russian (advanced) Spanish (intermediate) French, Turkish and Italian
(basic) Serbo-Croation (basic) Education: B.S. in Biology and M.S.
in Psychology |
Tim Taylor
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| Tim Taylor - Shark
Adventures, Bahamas |
Tim Taylor is an accomplished naturalist and explorer with over
25 years of underwater experience. His discovery of Sherwood Forest
Reef in the Dry Tortugas earned him acceptance into the prestigious
Explorers Club. Tim's experience includes 18 years as a US Coast
Guard Captain, numerous instructor ratings, underwater still and
video expertise and extensive field work. He has hosted many noted
marine specialists, including Dr. Sylvia Earle, Dr. Eugenie Clark,
Dr. Jeff Carrier and Wes Pratt. He produced, shot and directed
“The Florida Keys Sportsman”, founded Scubaworld Online (one of
the first scuba industry databases on the Internet), and has guided
many world famous researchers and explorers on expeditions in
the Bahamas, Cuba and the Florida Keys. Captain Taylor and Sylvia
Earle are currently exploring the newly-discovered Pulley Ridge
Coral Reef, the deepest coral reef in the US (read more).The ocean
and Key West are home for Tim, his 8 year old son Garett and 6
year old daughter Brooke.
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Jillian Morris
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| Jillian Morris
- Shark Adventures, Bahamas |
Jillian Morris has always had a passion for the ocean. Having
grown up on the water, she has never been far from it. An internship
with Mote Marine Lab’s Center for Shark Research marked the beginning
of her work with sharks across the globe. From Australia to Isla
Guadalupe, she has logged hundreds of hours in the water with
some of the largest apex predators in the world. After earning
a BS in Animal Behavior from the University of New England in
2005 she pursued opportunities that allowed her to work with sharks
and be in the water as much as possible.
Jillian is a certified dive instructor who loves sharks and
loves to share her knowledge of them with others. (Her car license
plate reads SHRKGRL.) Jillian’s worked with great white sharks
in the Farallons and Isla Guadalupe, lemon sharks in Marquesas,
nurse sharks in the Dry Tortugas and tiger sharks in Western Australia.
She is actively involved in the shark conservation world, writing
articles for numerous publications and doing outreach programs
across the US. She uses photography and video to share these amazing
animals with the world.
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Ian Woodcock
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| Ian Woodcock -
Shark Adventures, Bahamas |
Woody got certified to dive by the British Sub-Aqua Club (BS-AC),
in a quarry in Oxfordshire, England. To quote Woody, "That
was way back in 1975, yep, when sex was safe and diving was dangerous!"
This experience effected him so profoundly that he ran off and
joined the Royal Airforce, where he stayed for over 23 years.
Although a jet engine mechanic by trade, the RAF was where he
renewed his interest in diving, taking part in many expeditions
around the world, in later years also leading trips. Some of his
favorites locations are Half Moon Cay, Belize, North Male Atoll,
Maldives, Malta and Yanbu (on the Saudi side of the Red Sea).
Received Instructor rating in 1991. Later, after leaving the RAF,
moved to the Bahamas to teach scuba diving full time for 8 years.
During this time Woody became one of the few divers in the world
to be trained to hand feed reef sharks in Freeport, Grand Bahama.
Woody also specializes in dive video and photography and has been
involved in many TV and movie shoots. Woody helped to create our
Bahamas shark adventure....before he married the make-up artist
that helped turn him into Johnny Depp's double for the Pirates
of the Caribbean movies and moved to Los Angeles....now we're
pitching him as a possible host to a TV show about us...
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Dave Riggs
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| Dave Riggs - Hollywood
Top Gun |
Dave Riggs Dave is an experienced pilot with more than 20 years
flying in everything from light aircraft to jet helicopters and
fighters. His credits include holding five NAA/FAI World Speed Records,
making him the only person on the planet to hold records in piston
planes, jet fighters and helicopters When not screaming across the
country in the L-39 or hovering over Hollywood in a Bell Jet Ranger,
he runs a highly successful and award winning motion picture marketing
creative agency and feature film production company. |
Skip Holm
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| Skip Holm - Hollywood
Top Gun |
Skip Holm Skip's distinguished flying career began in the military
where he was awarded three Distinguished Flying Crosses, a Meritorious
Service Medal, twenty-five Air Combat Medals, an Air Force Commendation
Medal, a National Defense Service Ribbon, a Combat Ready Medal,
seven Vietnam Service Medals and a Vietnam RV Camp Medal. He’s
a Distinguished Graduate of all flying schools: USAF Pilot, Fighter
Upgrade, Top Gun and the USAF Test Pilot. In his civilian life,
Skip is a Reno Air Race winner, a test pilot, aircraft designer
and movie stunt pilot.
Skip has over 12,500 flight hours. Aircraft he’s piloted include:
FA, F5, F-11 Meteor, F-16, F-15, F-86, RF-5, F-100, F-101, F-102,
F-104, F-106, F-117, A-4, A-6, A-7, A-37, BD-5J, BD-10, T-2, T-33,
T-38, Mig-15, Mig-17, Mig 21, Mig-23, SU-27, Drakken J35, Hawker
Hunter, L-29, L-39, U-2, Soko, Gnat, Vampire, OV-10, Sepa, Casa,
Iskra, Fouga, Mav Jet, P-38, P-40, P47, P-5I, Bearcat, Yak3, Yak
9, Spitfire, Skyraider, Mosquito, Sea Fury, Corsair, Tsunami,
Lear Stang, Grand 51, Yak 50, Yak 52, Yak 55, T-6, T-34, T-4I,
0-1, 0-2, Brousard, SU-25, SU-29 and Dago Red.
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Greg Barron
Greg Barron is Director of West Coast Shark Ops. A San Francisco
Bay Area native and entrepreneur, Greg has spent his entire life
living and diving along the North Coast of California. He has been
involved in our San Francisco shark adventure from the very beginning.
Greg helped the people at DOER Marine design and build our massive
shark
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| Greg Barron -
Shark Encounters |
cage and he helped transform the Tamalpais into one of the
best shark boats on the planet. In his other life, Greg operates
two of his own companies, Barron Properties and Rideable Bicycle
Replicas Inc. Barron Properties is a real estate development and
management company based in Alameda and Oakland California. Rideable
Bicycle Replicas Inc. of Alameda, CA. is a small manufacturing company
specializing in making antique and specialty style cycles mostly
from the end of the 19th century. If you've been to Burning Man,
you've probably seen Greg riding one of his "High Wheel" bicycles.
His company has been supplying cycles for folks, film, theater and
museums for 34 years so if you see a high wheel bike in a movie
or play, chances are Greg made it. Some of the recent shows featuring
Greg's stuff include Deadwood, Jack Ass 2, Lonesome Dove, Haunted
Mansion and the stage show Wicked. Did we mention that Greg can
fix just about anything...almost before you know it's broken? |
Kevin Holbrook
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Kevin Holbrook
HALO Jumping & Skydive Denali |
Kevin Holbroook heads up our tandem HALO jumping program and
will lead a group this summer on a history-making skydive over
Mt. McKinley in Alaska. Kevin is a certified Master MFF Jumpmaster
(JM1), Airborne Static Line JM/1, a USPA Static Line Instructor
and Tandem Master Instructor and holds a USPA PRO Rating. His
qualifications include Joint Services Special Operations Group,
Close Quarter Combat Instructor. Kevin has 30 years of parachuting
experience with over 7,000 jumps.
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Alfred Scott McLaren - Senior Pilot
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| Alfred Scott McLaren
- Sub Adventures |
Captain Alfred S. McLaren, USN (Ret.), Ph.D. is a Director of
Sub Aviator Systems, LLC and Senior Pilot of the SAS Aviator submersible.
He is also President Emeritus of The Explorers Club, founded in
1904 to promote scientific exploration and field research. A U.
S. Naval Academy graduate and former nuclear submarine officer,
he made three Arctic expeditions on nuclear attack submarines,
that included the first submerged transit of the Northwest Passage,
a Baffin Bay cruise, and a North Pole expedition that also completed
the first survey under ice of the entire Siberian Continental
Shelf (5,000 km). Complete
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To speak to any of us, call 800-644-7382
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