Temperate Scuba Diving

Home: Australia

Years with Aurora: 20

Background: Peter or ‘SCUBA Pete’ as he’s known, has a gift for training, extensive experience across all areas of diving and a passion for the sport that inspires all on the Aurora Expeditions team and our guests. He is among the top elite group of diving professionals globally and has dived on all seven continents and 32 countries to depths past 120m in all conditions and temperatures. He is an experienced polar dive guide and technical supervisor has Instructor Trainer status with six training agencies and is certified to service over 13 brands of SCUBA equipment. His sense of adventure, good humour and experience make every voyage one to remember.

Favourite Expedition: Iceland is one of my top 10 destinations in the world, of all time! I’m excited to go there with Aurora Expeditions and our guests in 2022.

Advice: Bring your sense of adventure and sign up for one of our fantastic activities. Come snorkelling with me!

Edwin is an avid outdoor enthusiast with a passion for all activities based on, in and under water.

He’s an Australian currently living in Arizona, USA.

Edwin is an experienced polar ice diver, he holds many diving certifications with several agencies, including: Divemaster, Master Scuba Diver, deep diver and extended range river, rescue diver, gas blender, Trimix, DPV, and emergency oxygen provider. Edwin has been a certified diver since 1986 and has dived in the polar regions with Aurora Expeditions aboard the Polar Pioneer, where his love affair with the polar regions started.

Outside his passion for water activities, Edwin is also a helicopter pilot and an entrepreneur. He has successfully started and managed several start-up companies from inception to multinational status. Edwin has a Master’s degree in Management from Macquarie University in Sydney and has worked in the commercial lighting industry for over 30 years.