Tom Mount is a pioneering cave diver and technical diver. In 1991 Tom joined Dick Rutkowski in founding what would later become the International Association of Nitrox and Technical Divers (IANTD), the first dedicated technical diver training organization. Tom serves as the CEO of the Board of Directors for IAND, Inc./IANTD
He was also a founding member of the National Association for Cave Diving, the USA’s first Cave diver training agency. He has also taken a leading role in the development of closed circuit rebreathers for recreational diving.
He is the author of numerous IANTD text books including the Technical Diver Student Workbook, the Trimix student workbook and the Cave Diving Student Manual and Workbook. He is also the author or other books including The Cave Diving Manual, Safe Cave diving, The Greatest Adventure, photography and Mixed Gas Diving. He has also authored numerous articles and texts on technical diving and diving in general.
He has been involved in all phases of the diving business from commercial to recreational diving. He has worked for the Army Core of Engineers, NOAA, Teach Tour Dive Travel Company and his own dive shop. From 1965 to 1967 he jointly held the world record for the deepest ever dive on compressed air.
He holds multiple doctorates, and is a three-time inductee to the United States Martial Arts Association Hall of Fame.
Tom’s other loves are his dogs and Martial Arts, where he holds a Black Belt and is a three-time inductee to the United States Martial Arts Association Hall of Fame. Tom holds three doctorates and is a licensed Coast Guard Captain and an airplane pilot.
