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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.
Garret Machine
 Garret
Machine, a former soldier in the Israeli Defense Force ( IDF).
Garret’s unit, “ Duvdevan”, is the IDF’s equivalent to the US
Army’s Delta Force. Following his Israeli military service, Garret
worked as a field bodyguard for the Israeli Ministry of Defense,
which is the equivalent of the US Secret Service. He was part
of a unit that worked exclusively in the West Bank, in high risk
areas. He then joined the ranks of the Israeli National Police
Force, where he served until 2010.
Before moving to Israel, Miami-born Garret grew up in South Florida,
attended high school at the Valley Forge Military Academy in Pennsylvania
and received a degree from the University of Florida. While still
in the military, Garret earned a Masters Degree in Homeland Security
and Counter Terror Warfare from the Interdisciplinary Center in
Herzliya, Israel.
Garret is the author of books and videos and has the following
certifications: Florida Firearms Instructor for Police and Armed
Security, Florida Security Officers Instructors License, Florida
Emergency Medical Technician (inactive), NRA Range Safety Officer
& Law Enforcement Firearms Instructor, Georgia Peace Officer
Standards and Training Council, Pennsylvania Lethal Weapons Training
Instructor, Illinois Firearms Instructor License.
 Steiger
Steiger is an FAA-certified commercial balloon pilot and balloon
flight instructor. He’s also an accomplished stunt pilot and flyer
of skydivers and BASE jumpers. If you need someone who will fly
you over tall mountains and across vast deserts, Steiger's your
man.
Hawke
 Co-founder
and Operations Officer of SpecOps Global Survival Training. Responsibilities
include: operations management, logistics, course development
and instruction. Background: Mykel Hawke is the author of Hawke’s
Green Beret Survival Manual and star of Discovery Channel’s
"One
Man Army" and “Man,
Woman, Wild”. 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 |
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. Jillian's Blog: The
Adventures of Shark Girl. Jillian's web site: Shark
Girl. |
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. |
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. |
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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