UHEXSO Officers, Trustees, Directors and Members Page
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Russell Miller, UHEXSO Founder and Secretary, getting ready for his first hard hat dive in Pete Petrisky's Korean helmet and dress. Russell has been diving for over five years and is adept at handling UHEXSO's photography and electronic needs in the field. Besides his growing knowledge of diving, he is an excellent deck supervisor for surface-supplied diving operations. In the picture are UHEXSO members, Mike Athey and Pete Petrisky who are assisting Russell Miller. |
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John F. Hoover, UHEXSO Founder and Executive Director. John has been diving for over 26 years, seven of these as a commercial diver in the North Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. John attended the Florida Institute of Technology's Underwater Technology Program and received further commercial training at the Underwater Centre in Fort William, Scotland and ProDive in Falmouth, England. He was also NUMA's dive supervisor and expedition leader for the 1996-1997 INVINCIBLE Expeditions in the Gulf of Mexico. He currently works for the Texas Attorney General's Office as a criminal investigator.
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UHEXSO's 1999 Diver of Year and Founding Member Pete Petrisky of Dallas, Texas. Pete is wearing his Korean standard dress rig. He has been diving for over 35 years and is the President and owner of Deep Six Diving and Salvage in Dallas. Pete owns a vast array of diving equipment, most of which he built himself. UHEXSO is proud to have Pete as its first Diver of the Year. The depth of his knowledge and skill and, most of all, his patience have been an inspiration and benefit to us all. Well done, Sir. |
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UHEXSO Founding Member and Director Col. Randy Furr. Randy has been diving for many years and is deep-water qualified. He handles UHEXSO equipment maintenance and lends the expertise gained from decades of military service to planning UHEXSO's field projects. He is also a paratrooper and often jumps competitively with military jump teams. |
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Founder of the Gulf Coast Working Equipment Group and UHEXSO Founder and Director Paul Schenk. Paul is an avid collector and diver who is especially interested in the USN MK V rig. He is extremely knowledgeable about the development and history of the MK V and is accomplished at diving it. |
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UHEXSO Founder and Director Rick Kouns. Rick has been diving for over 20 years and is a PADI Master Instructor. Rick has a keen interest in marine archeology and nautical history, and is responsible for developing airlifting and marker buoy deployment systems for UHEXSO. He also collects and restores double-hose regulators and recently restored, to diving operation, a 1940's US Navy gas mask. |
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Members and Friends
Above: Left to Right: Julie Hoover, Nick Baker, John Hoover and Dr. John Bevan
Nick and Dr. Bevan head up the HDS-UK, the photo was taken in Dr. Bevin's library at his home in London.
Two out of two Drs. agree, UHEXSO is number one. Left: Paul Schenk, Ph.D. and Dr. Gary Mailman, M.D. Dr. Mailman is the head of hyperbaric medicine at St. David's Hospital in Austin, TX. Dr. Schenk is with NASA.
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Steve Hoyt, Chief Marine Archeologist with the Texas Historical Commission and Jennifer Schwan, UHEXSO diver and data recorder. Picture taken at the second Sabine River Project trip, October of 1999. |
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Who says the UHEXSO guys don't clean up good. Rick Kouns, Pete Petrisky and Russell Miller at John and Julie Hoover's wedding.
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Right: UHEXSO founding member, John Holder. John's doing that safety diver thing at a UHEXSO rally at Lake Travis, TX.
Above: Lucy, the cook and Dennis the kook during the INVINCIBLE expedition in 1996. |
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Above: Our friends from the Battleship Texas Foundation and the Nimitz Museum at a Parks and Wildlife living history show. Notice the UHEXSO diving exhibit, there is a Korean, , MK V, Russian helmets, a Widolf band mask and a DESCO Pot along with a WW II diver radio, weight belt, shoes and knife.
Stay tuned for more photos.
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Left: NUMA President, Wayne Gronquist stares in awe at the manly diving prowess of UHEXSO divers John Hoover and Rick Kouns during one of their many "three hour tours"(sung to the theme of Gilligan's Island) in the Gulf of Mexico with NUMA.
Above: Thom Dutton, UHEXSO Corporate Sponsor and owner of Deep Blue Scuba, Austin, TX
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