Michael Menduno is an award-winning reporter and technologist who has written about diving and diving technology for 30 years and coined the term “technical diving.” In addition to his writing and reporting duties for DeeperBlue, he serves as the editor-in-chief of Global Underwater Explorers’ (GUE) blog “InDepth,” and Contributing Editor for DAN Europe's "Alert Diver," and "X-Ray" magazine. He is also on the board of the Historical Diving Society. Menduno's now defunct magazine “aquaCORPS: The Journal for Technical Diving" (1990-1996) helped usher tech diving into mainstream sports diving. He also produced the first Tek, EUROTek and ASIATek conferences, and organized Rebreather Forums 1.0 and 2.0. Michael received the OZTEK Media Excellence Award in 2011, the EUROTek Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012 and the TEKDive USA Media Award in 2018. He is also a passionate U.S. Masters swimmer and bass player.