Robert Manuel Carmichael is, first and foremost, a friend of the ocean. He is the founder and co-founder of several companies and a non-profit, each with unique focus on the earth’s waters and the diving industry. He is the inventor of various diving, medical, and marine instruments, including innovative dive equipment for Halcyon Dive Systems.
He has a constant passion for underwater exploration and a knack for improving the functionality of mechanical devices. He learned how to build a recreational hookah system in 1980 as the first full-time employee of Brownie’s THIRD LUNG™, a job that inaugurated his love for diving.
In the late 1980’s, he began experimenting with technical mixed gas diving and was the enterprising force behind the development of what would become the Halcyon “PVR-BASC” rebreather. This rebreather helped revolutionize deep technical diving and would lead to numerous world record cave dives.
More than 15 years later, these and many other innovations were
developed with Robert’s business partner and friend, Jarrod Jablonski,
with whom he founded Halcyon Manufacturing
in 1995. Through the next several decades, Robert would go on to found a
multitude of companies with a unique focus on the diving industry,
including Brownie’s Marine Group, Inc., a publicly traded company under stock symbol BWMG. Brownie’s Marine Group, Inc., is the parent company to an innovative family of brands, all concentrated on the diving industry. From the flagship product – Brownie’s THIRD LUNG™, to the ultra-portable tankless diving systems set to revolutionanize the world enters the water through BLU3®, to the coolest tankfill systems on the market – NitroxMaker™ and YachtPro™.
Robert
continues to bring innovative solutions into a wide range of marine
applications, building a team under Global SubDive, which supports mixed gas
supply and submersible support operations and systems for yachts and
expedition ships around the globe.
Armed
with decades of experience in a number of capacities, both top sides
and underwater, Robert pulls from a varied history that includes deep,
technical, open ocean, and cave diving, as well as patents for several diving industry innovations, gas fill systems and services for private
homes and yachts that meet the needs of often highly specialized
expeditions.
Combined with unstoppable drive to push underwater
exploration in the name of discovery and preservation, Robert enters
2021 fully equipped with a multitude of adventures.
