The Encyclopedia & Guide to Diving with a Full Face Mask
Matthew Robinson lives in Rhode Island and primarily works as a crime scene detective for the City of East Providence Police Department; as a commercial diver for Northeast Diving in Newport, Rhode Island; and as a dive instructor with East Bay Dive Center, Warren, Rhode Island. Matt has been teaching people to dive since 2008 and has taken part in many diving operations and expeditions over the last decade. Matt has worked under US Coast Guard Cutters and has conducted technical dives to wrecks such as the Empress of Ireland in Canada and the USS Monitor off the coast of North Carolina. As the police department prepared to institute an underwater search-and-recovery team, Matt was tasked with developing protocols and identifying required team equipment. These endeavors led Matt to research full face masks and FFM training for a law enforcement dive team. Matt found that there was little literature in this regard and set about studying full face masks, diving many models, and compiling this text.