With a diving background since 1983, Florent possesses a comprehensive understanding of the diving industry. He holds certifications such as SDI CD, TDI IT (hTX, eCCR) & Full Cave Evaluator, and FRTI IT.
In 1998, he established Aquatiks, one of France’s pioneering technical diving schools, which he still owns and manages. Additionally, after Covid and for a span of three years, he founded and operated MoM, Italy’s first and only mine and mine diving school. Florent has conducted explorations of deep wrecks along the French Mediterranean coast, uncovering and documenting over 25 wrecks in the -100m zone, including Protée, Guyane/Niedersachsen, Bananier, and Maréchal Canrobert. He is deeply engaged in rebreathers and cave diving, his passion.
French, raised in France, but having studied and obtained his MBA in the USA; over the past 25 years, Florent has held positions with equipment manufacturers such as Sporasub (Mares) and Beuchat, respectively 5 and 4 years. Notably, he served as the Global Dive Business Line Manager for Aqua Lung for eight years before transitioning again to Mares, where he assumed for 6 years both the role of Head of Product Management and creator of the Mares XR range. This led him to live in several countries, traveling and diving all over the world, his other passion.