Jon Slayer

Experience

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  Spirit of Adventure

  Aug 1996 - Jun 1999

  Chief Instructor
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  Royal Marines

  Jan 2000 - Jan 2007

  Officer
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  Jon Slayer

  Mar 2008 - now

  Independent Filmmaker

  Focusing mainly on oceanic themes Jon Slayer has filmed and produced several award nominated films (Blue Ocean Film Festival 2012 & Blue Ocean Film Festival 2015). His work includes credits for BBC (Britain's Treasure Islands) and National Geographic (The People of Pitcairn Speak) as well as a number of independant productions for the likes of the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office, The Chagos Conservation Trust, The Pew Environment Group, UNICEF and Blue Ventures.

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  Blue Ventures

  Jun 2009 - Aug 2011

  Project Lead

  Project leader for the creation of a new expedition and marine conservation site for Blue Ventures in Belize.

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  Solace Global

  Jan 2012 - Feb 2013

  Maritime Security Team Leader

  Team Leader of an armed security team of four former Royal Marine/Special Forces personnel on board commercial vessels plying the northern Indian Ocean in an area under severe threat from Somalian piracy.

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  360bubble

  Oct 2016 - now

  Owner

  360bubble produces underwater housings for 360 cameras to capture virtual reality content underwater. The company was founded after Jon created an underwater housing for a new 360 camera that was loaned to him by Google to capture Street View images for a remote expedition to coral atolls in the Indian Ocean in early 2016. After seeing the 360 photos and videos from freedives on that trip he and his wife started 360bubble to allow others to enjoy this new avenue of underwater photography.

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  Force Blue

  Apr 2017 - now

  Team 1 Member

  FORCE BLUE is the only nonprofit organization in the world that provides “mission therapy” for former combat divers — individuals in whom governments around the world have invested millions to create the best possible underwater and maritime operators — by retraining, retooling and deploying them on missions of conservation, preservation and restoration.By uniting the community of Special Operations veterans with the world of marine science and conservation in one, mission-focused program, FORCE BLUE has created a model of caring, cooperation and positive change with the power to restore lives and restore the planet.Harkening back to the days of Jacques Cousteau and the French Commando frogmen he trained, FORCE BLUE is creating a modern-day cadre of elite combat veterans with the aptitude and ability to achieve great things on the conservation front, and the visibility to let the world actually know about it. Show less

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  British Stunt Register

  Jul 2018 - now

  Stuntman