Meet Alex "Tuna" Tumaniszwili, Commercial Diving and Underwater Welding Instructor at CDA Technical Institute. Alex started his diving career in 1990 as a Navy Diver. Throughout his naval career he was involved in various high profile diving operations such as Hurricane Katrina Recovery Operations, Debris recovery for Space Shuttle Columbia, USS Monitor Salvage Operations and wartime deployments to the Middle East. Working his way through the ranks, Alex eventually mastered deep water diving techniques and achieved the qualification as Mixed Gas Diving Supervisor. He was instrumental in creating the Deep Diving Detachment for the Navy’s Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit, the only one of its kind on the east coast. After retiring from the Navy in 2008, Alex “put on the hat” again and went to work offshore. He moved his way to Diver 1/Supervisor and dived on many different offshore oil and gas dynamics such as hot taps, oil rig abatement, underwater burning and oil rig pipeline inspection and repair.
Seeing an opportunity in 2013 to exercise leadership and bestow a passion for Commercial Diving, Alex took the Lead Supervisor position at CDA Technical Institute, Deep Water Training Center in Ocala, Florida.
