Most people learn to crawl before walking but here was a man who learned to swim before taking his first steps. Diver, entrepreneur, writer, athlete, maritime specialist – Captain Bret Gilliam was the complete package. Just add water.
Gilliam was one of the most influential scuba diving pioneers and also one of the industry’s most successful entrepreneurs, leading the industry’s evolution and growth from 1971 into the new millennium.
DIVING SUCCESSES
Gilliam’s diving successes straddled most aspects of the sport. Physiologically unfazed by deep-diving without the help of mixed gases, he, at one point held the world record for the deepest dive on air, descending
