User:Uwerath

Uwe Rath (born 18 March 1959) is a cave explorer and technical dive instructor trainer, known for his cave exploration in the Dominican Republic. Born in Bad Camberg, Germany in 1959 he started diving in 1982. After continued his open water training through the PADI system, in 1990 he got qualified as a PADI Instructor and began teaching full time and working his way up to PADI Master Instructor. After two years of traveling around the world he moved from Egypt to the Dominican Republic in 1992. Here quickly he became an early pioneer in cave diving and cave exploration During this period he began developing his Technical Diving skills through training with Technical Diving International (TDI) Examples of his explorations have been extensively published on magazines like Advanced Diver Magazine and others worldwide. Uwe Rath worked with various diving teams to legally recover artifacts that went on display in various universities. Here you can read the last discovery’s in 2010 under the name: New Cave - Old Species • Dominican Republic Cave Exploration Antillothrix Bernensis • Underwater Windows to the Lost World of Caribbean Monkeys

Uwe Rath is a PADI Master Instructor, PADI Tec Rec Instructor Trainer, CMAS 3 Star Instructor, SDI Instructor Trainer, TDI Instructor Trainer Full Cave Instructor Evaluator, Adv.Trimix Instructor and Rebreather Instructor. He holds more then 140 Instructor Certifications in total. This makes him to one of the highest certified Instructors in the Dominican Republic. After all this years diving around the island he is a walking encyclopedia about dive sites and dive spots in the Dominican Republic.

In 2006 he got involved in organizing one of the first Rebreather Events in the Dominican Republic. This event was the first one where you were able to test and dive Rebreather units from all companies on the market at this time. In 2007 he had the opportunity to organize together with Wreck Diver Magazine and John Chatterton the first Wreck and Tech diving Event on the Island. Very famous treasure hunters like Bob Marx and Tracy Bowden was part of this event.

Now he is owner from Uwescuba Dive Center in the Dominican Republic.