Madden, Patrick – Spaulding, Annette – McMillan, Ken

Patrick Madden has been diving since 1968, He is a Certified Master Instructor/Instructor Trainer. He is a retired 26 year Veteran of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and was the dive supervisor and instructor of their Underwater Recovery Team in Manitoba Canada for 7 years. He has trained in u/w Archaeology, u/w Pollution & Sedimentology, and Marine Biology. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Association of Dive Rescue Specialists and a member of the Historic Diving Society. Annette has been diving for over 25 years and is a Certified Master Diver. She has worked in many countries and U.S. states on shipwreck searches and other archaeological projects. She also worked with Stan Waterman on the movie “The Deep” in Bermuda. She has been a member of an Underwater Search & Rescue Team based in Southern Vermont/New Hampshire since 1981, and is trained in underwater evidence recovery. She has worked with numerous police agencies in recovery of evidence in Vermont, New Hampshire and other states. Her memberships in professional associations include the Historical Diving Society and the International Association of Dive Rescue Specialists. Ken is a Marine Geophysicist and is President of McQuest Marine Sciences Limited of Burlington, Ontario. He has been involved in searches for shipwrecks and aircraft, both older and modern and found the War of 1812 warships, the “Hamilton” and “Scourge” in Lake Ontario. He developed a technique for recovering aircraft from deep water without using divers which was utilized to successfully recovery a historic Halifax WWII bomber from a deep lake in Norway. As well as a side scan specialist, he is an accomplished ROV pilot having been a student of the first ROV pilot in the world. He is a lecturer in Hydrography at York University and serves as Chairperson for both the Humber College Environmental Advisory Committee and for the Faculty of Science Advisory Council at the University of Waterloo.