Patrick Toressan

He was introduced to the underwater world in June 2000, while on a holiday at Sharm El Sheikh. It was during this holiday that he obtained the first level Padi Open Water Diver licence and realized scuba diving was forever going to be part of his life. In the following years he continued training, always with the Padi didactic method, and reached the Assistance Instructor level in March 2004. In 2005 he obtained the Digital Underwater Photography Instructor licence. He also regularly works in the tourist field for the Liguria region as a scuba diving guide and since the beginning of this year he has been a staff member of the renewed Elbadiving at Marciana Marina, on Elba Island, working as an underwater digital photography instructor. A keen photographer, he shoots reportages during his innumerable travels around the world and the resulting underwater photography is the natural evolution of the meeting of his old love for photography and his new passion for exploring the underwater world. In April 2003, he started taking his first steps in the field of underwater photography to which he has dedicated himself almost exclusively, together with worldwide seabed exploration. Since the beginning, his pictures have received much important recognition and have won prestigious prizes in the most important events and competitions.

Gino Rosiers

Since 1997 Gino Rosiers has made more than 2000 dives. In 2003, after 3 years of underwater photography, he traded his Nikonos for video equipment and the next year he began to write several scenarios which he started filming in 2005. In 2007, the last pre- video recordings of one of the stories were completed. In March 2008 the first documentary 'Insects of the Sea' was completed. The 1st festival that the documentary entered was "Celebrate the Sea" in Manilla 2008 where it immediately became a winner in the Professional class and won a major award -The Rolex Award of Excellence. The documentary has won more than 20 awards, even "le PALME D'ARGENT" at the prestigious festival at Antibes (France).

Mr Pedro Vieyra

Pedro started diving in 1986 when he joined his local diving club in England diving on the many shipwrecks in the North Sea. He spent time exploring the diving around the UK, from the Isles of Sicily to the beautiful west coast of Scotland, the wrecks of Scapa Flow, the Shetland archipelago and also remote St Kilda in the Atlantic. Overseas, he made trips to the Egyptian Red Sea, the Philippines and Borneo. A lifelong interest in marine biology led him to try and capture some of the beauty and diversity of the oceans. A few years later he joined the British Society of Underwater Photographers and learned a great deal from experts such as Peter Scoones and Alex Mustard. He has dived with humpback whales and sharks in Polynesia and the Caribbean, tiger sharks and great hammerheads in the Bahamas, giant manta rays and sealions in Mexico, remote reefs in Sudan and the far Northern Barrier reef in Australia. He has just returned from a productive trip to Lembeh in Sulawezi and the remote Raja Ampat region of eastern Indonesia, the area of greatest marine biodiversity in the world. Winning an award at SUBIOS in 2004 resulted in his first visit to the Seychelles in 2005 and to the beautiful diving around Mahe and Prahlin. Since then he has attended SUBIOS regularly, swum with the whale sharks, and has begun to discover the fantastic opportunities the islands offer to the photographer and diver.