Pioneering tech diver and journalist, Michael Menduno, Editor-in-Chief of InDEPTH Journal, is recovering in a Florida hospital after struggling a stroke.
Menduno, also called ‘M2’ launched technical, mixed-gas diving to the scuba diving mainstream within the early Nineteen Nineties by means of his aquaCORPS tech diving journal.
Menduno is credited with inventing the phrase ‘technical diving’, and has gained a number of media awards, together with the OZTEKMedia Excellence Award in 2011, the EUROTek Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012, and the TEKDive USA Media Award in 2018.
He additionally produced the primary Tek, EUROTek, and ASIATek conferences, and organised Rebreather Boards 1, 2, and most lately, Rebreather Discussion board 4, held in Valletta, Malta in 2023.
He based InDEPTH, the journal of International Underwater Explorers (GUE) with GUE founder and president, Jarrod Jablonski, in 2018.
Menduno additionally writes for DAN Europe and has been an everyday contributor to DAN’s journal, Alert Diver.
Posting on Fb asserting the information, InDEPTH’s Managing Editor, Stratis Kas, wrote:
‘It’s with deep remorse that I share the troublesome information that our expensive pal Michael Menduno is at the moment within the hospital, recovering from a stroke.
‘Those that know Michael perceive that he’s a real fighter, and this problem isn’t any exception. He and Deb are collectively and absolutely targeted on getting him stabilised and starting the highway to restoration.
‘Whereas we respect that a lot of his mates wish to attain out, Michael shouldn’t be at the moment in a position to talk. We kindly ask that you just give them the house they want to focus on the therapeutic course of.
‘In the meantime, the excellent workforce at InDepth will proceed to develop and uphold the legacy Michael has so passionately constructed—conserving it robust and prepared for him when he’s able to return.’
