Team Blue Immersion Jonas Samuelsson
Jonas has taught over 2000 diving instructors all levels and has been a leader in the dive industry for almost 20 years and has been operating some of the largest dive centers in the world. Jonas also has a background as a diving journalist and contributed with articles in many diving magazines since 1994, the latest published article was in The Undersea Journal, first quarter 2010. Jonas has played a vital role as mentor for many current PADI Course Directors in their pursuit of becoming a Diving Instructor Trainers.Jonas is a technical instructor trainer for mixed gas diving and loves to explore deep caves and wrecks all around the world. Jonas recently moved, after more than 10 years of teaching diving instructors in Asia, to teach technical and recreational diving instructors in the Red Sea. http://www.fourthelement.com/adventures/dive_team/

Jonas Samuelsson and his friend and collegue freediver Akim Adhari are founders of Team Blue Immersion, www.blue-immersion.org, which is a team of the world’s leading freedivers and technical divers.

Jonas most recent expedition was as a Dive Leader for "Expedition Iceland – Project Hamilton" in June 2011. The team managed to beat the Icelandic depth record twice in two weeks, discover a previously unknown hotspring system at 70 meters and be the first team to dive the US Coast Guard Cutter Alexander Hamilton since it sank 30 miles outside Reykjavik 70 years ago.

Jonas is a certified diver with PADI, DSAT/TECREC, ANDI, IANTD, TDI and AIDA.