Christos AGOURIDIS Secretary General Hellenic Institute of Marine Archaeology, Maritime Archaeologist Greek Ministry of Culture & Sports, Ephorate of Paleoanthropology & Speleology Michela ANGIOLILLO Marine Ecologist, Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA) Scientific Association to the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn Mark CANEY PADI Industry Relations and Training Executive President, World Recreational Scuba Training Council Simon CARUANA DAN Europe Foundation Consultant, Institute of Tourism Studies (ITS) for Management of Diving Tourism Peter JONAS Director of Certification Austrian Standards Ilia KRASTEV Vice President at the Bulgarian National Association of Underwater Activity (BNAPD) Senior Fellow at the Institute of Oceanology, Varna, Bulgaria Wolfgang MEHL Technical Auditor of Diver Training Agencies, EUF Certification International & UNITER Ralph-Walter MÜLLER Managing Director of the Faculty of Energy, Process & Biotechnology – University of Stuttgart, Scientific Diving Instructor – University of Stuttgart Massimo PONTI President of the Italian Association of Scientific Divers, Associate Professor in Marine Ecology at the University of Bologna, Italy Steffen Gerhard SCHOLZ President European Underwater Federation, Head of Research Team Process Optimization, Information Management & Applications (PIA) Institute for Automation and Applied Informatics (IAI), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology