Board of Directors - Thomas English Clark, Jr. “Tec”

Tec Clark has been an avid freediver all of his life. Learning how to snorkel and skin dive as a child, paved the way to aquatic proficiency as an adult. As a scuba instructor at the University of Florida’s Academic Diving Program, Tec and his fellow instructors honed their freediving skills by excelling in the rigorous NAUI, YMCA and CMAS instructor skills – namely in skin diving ditch and recoveries. He taught over one thousand students at the University of Florida how to skin dive and scuba dive, and without fail, could recite nearly every line of the movie The Big Blue.

In 1997, Tec was a safety diver for Alejandro Ravello’s constant-weight freedive attempt off the coast of Miami. In 1998, Tec became a CMAS (World Underwater Federation) judge for freediving competitions. He was the deep judge for Mehgan Heaney Grier’s U.S. national woman’s constant weight record off the Florida Keys. And, in 1998 Tec was the deep judge for Tanya Streeter’s fresh water constant weight world record attempt in Central Florida. In 1997, Tec and Mehgan Heaney Grier co-founded the United States Freediving Team. In 2002, Tec was Captain of the U.S. Freediving Team at the Pacific Cup of Freediving in Kona, Hawaii. In 2004, Tec competed at the first USAA National Freediving Competition in California.

Tec is a founding member of the United States Apnea Association. His positions in the diving industry include Managing Director of the University of Florida Academic Diving Program and National Director of the YMCA of the USA’s SCUBA Program. Currently, Tec is an instructor trainer and diving industry consultant living in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

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