About Simon

Originally from the UK, Simon has lived in Asia for over 30 years. He arrived in the region to join the Royal Hong Kong Police and later became an assistant political advisor to the Hong Kong Governor before being compulsorily retired "to facilitate constitutional change."

Simon Pridmore has been at the sharp end of the scuba diving industry since the early 1990s, pioneering mixed-gas deep diving in Asia, first in Hong Kong and later through Professional Sports Divers, his dive centre in Guam, Micronesia

He then moved to the United Kingdom to run a major technical diver agency and work with cutting edge dive equipment manufacturers VR Technology.

Today, as well as his books and guides, Simon writes regular columns for a variety of magazines and speaks about diver training and dive safety at conferences all over the world. He and his wife Sofie currently live in Indonesia but spend a lot of time exploring other places trying, but failing so far, to find a cure for their itchy feet.