Level: Master Instructor

Work Area: worldwide

Freediving Accomplishments: 3 World Records, all in the Unassisted Constant Ballast category, considered the hardest. First diver ever to set an official record and to break the 50 meter barrier in this category.

Teaching Experience: Has been teaching freediving since 2002, with a total of over 10 courses and 80 students.

Bio Info: David was born on July 21st 1975, in Kingston, Jamaica. His mother, Jan Lee, has owned Lady G'Diver, one of the Caribbean's most reputable dive shops since 1979, allowing David to grow up in a water sports environment, in and around the sea his whole life. Thus, from a very young age, he mastered extreme sports like surfing and windsurfing, while becoming very intrigued by freediving. Up until 1994, David divided his time between school and the working with his mother as a Divemaster, while getting more and more seriously into freediving. AT this point, his high-school education completed, David decides to move to Tulsa, in the USA, to pursue a college degree in Information Systems. During this time, he also falls in love with the martial arts, attaining a black belt degree on 2 different disciplines in a short time, thanks to his customary hard work and commitment. It was this attitude of his that convinced him to now focus his energies into an old favorite activity of his: freediving, to which, he dedicates full time. But he was only able to freediving during the summer holidays back in his homeland of Jamaica, and his progress was understandably slow. David starts searching for professional help and, in 2000, he meets renown trainer Rudi Castineyra and female world champion Yasemin Dalkilic, with whom be quickly becomes friends and a member of their training team. Rudi was particularly interested in David, as his freediving knowledge was limited but his physical potentials quite promising, so they start a demanding training regime in January of 2001. By the summer of that year, David was ready to attempt his first world record, and he chooses the hardest category of all in freediving, Unassisted Constant Ballast, of which he has become the undisputed master, having set a total of 3 world records since then. In 2002, David expresses interest in becoming also an instructor, and he starts his apprenticeship by accompanying Rudi on several of his courses around the world. David had progressed to the rank of Master Instructor by 2003, his fun and youthful attitude towards freediving and his easy going demeanor, becoming assets in his teaching. For 2004, his energies are focused on taking back the Unassisted world record, trying his hand at other competitive categories and to continue: "teaching the joy, simplicity and purity of freediving to others, always safely and responsibly".