MOLLE, Philippe

MOLLE, Philippe

France (1935- )

Last updated: March 29, 2020 at 13:56 pm

Diving instructor; author of several diving instruction manuals; architect and urban planner; taught at Club Med from 1961 to 1965; managed dive clubs in France, Yugoslavia, Malta and Morocco from 1966 to 1985; President of the Syndicat national des moniteurs de plongée (national union of diving instructors) from 1980 to 1984; founded and managed Centre de plongée MUST (MUST diving centre) in Moorea (French Polynesia) from 1985 to 2003; scuba diving expert witness in Papeete from 1996 to 2006; lieutenant parachutist in the French Army (1957-60), veteran of the Algerian War.

Zellidja Award (1954)

Philippe Molle

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