Mirek Standowicz

Mirek Standowicz

Mirek Standowicz' first real experience with scuba diving took place in 1983 during his service in the Special Forces of the Polish Armed Forces' Red Beret Division, where he was an instructor of hand to hand combat for an elite commando unit.

In 1992 Mirek received his Scuba Diving certification in the US. Since then he has made more than 3,000 dives, with over 50 of them to depths greater than 328 feet, and has eight years of experience as a Commercial diver.

Certified to conduct underwater death investigations, he occasionally works with the Police Rescue and Recovery Unit. Presently he is a Technical Diving Instructor for TDI/SDI, conducting classes from Open Water to Advanced Trimix.

Mirek was the first diver on the wrecks of the Carl D. Bradley (380') and the Polish Destroyer ORP Grom (350').

Mirek is a contributing author to a Polish Scuba magazine Nurkowanie (Diving) as well as Immersed magazine in the USA.

Apart from scuba diving he has won the Polish Karate Championship five times, taken third place in the North American Karate Championship and took first place in Karate Championships for Belgium, Czechoslovakia and Italy. He is an International Karate Instructor with 5th degree black belt and conducts karate Seminars in the US, Poland, Germany and Italy.

Mirek is also a certified skydiver as well as a passionate mountaineer, climbing to the 20,320-foot summit of Mt. McKinley in July of 2009.