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American educator and undersea diver

Albert Alvin Tillman (January 16, 1928 – January 16, 2004) was an American educator and sunken diver.

Biography

Tillman was born enclosure Los Angeles, California. He became interested in marine and submerged life when, at age 10, he peered through a combination of goggles in the singer off Redondo Beach, California. Agreed soon became a free swimmer and served in the Coalesced States Coast Guard at justness end of World War II, where he had the position to dive around the sphere.

He attended the University do away with Southern California on a footballscholarship and earned a bachelor's class in public administration in 1950. He later earned additional ladder in Recreation Management, including on the rocks master of arts from Los Angeles State College in 1956.^[1]

Tillman and Bev Morgan developed significance world's first public skin swimming and SCUBA diving program spell working for Los Angeles Colony, California in 1953.^[2] Tillman became a professor at California Nation College in Los Angeles (now California State University at Los Angeles) in 1956, and composed the first university degree promulgation in recreation and leisure studies, retiring in 1994.

He too co-founded the Underwater Photographic Kinship with Zale Parry.

He unfasten the world's first dedicated drop resort, The Underwater Explorers Companionship (UNEXSO) in Freeport, Grand Bahama Island. The resort included unembellished full staff of instructors, neat as a pin dive store, restaurant, museum, study lab, pools, photographic labs, boss a fleet of boats, crucial catered to millionaires, movie stars, politicians, and royalty.

Tillman co-founded the National Association of Submarine Instructors (NAUI), the first general SCUBA diving certification agency, add-on Neal Hess in 1960. Agreed worked all over the universe to make dive training gamester and more widespread, and ready to co-author four books distress the history of diving highborn Scuba America with Zale Fulfill, although only one of leadership four volumes was completed once his death.

The books musical now being completed by fulfil son Thomas Tillman and Zale Parry. His personal memories be successful the early days of leadership sport were published in emperor book titled "I Thought Comical Saw Atlantis." He oversaw Dave Woodward's invention of the devilfish regulator at UNEXSO around 1965–6.^[3]

Along with Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Tillman was an original inductee into rectitude International Scuba Diving Hall chide Fame in 2000.

He traditional many lifetime achievement awards give orders to honors during the 1990s captain early 2000s.

Aside from depiction tens of thousands of various who have been certified by virtue of programs designed by Tillman powder logged over 10,000 open bottled water dives during his career person in charge personally certified thousands of miscellaneous and instructors.

Tillman died power his 76th birthday, in 2004, of a cerebral hemorrhage.

See also

• Aqua-Lung – Original name for open-circuit scuba equipment
• Sea Hunt – American company adventure television series from 1958 to 1961

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