About Us

Deep Submergence Research Group is a division of DSRG Asia-Pacific Pte Ltd, a company incorporated in the Republic of Singapore. The company was originally named Blue Manta Explorers when first incorporated back in 1999, and renamed under the same management to DSRG Asia-Pacific Pte Ltd in 2002. At the helm is founder of the company, Simon Kee.

Since the start of Blue Manta Explorers, our mission has been to provide world-class dive training and to play a leadership role in providing top-class education in underwater exploration techniques and practices, recognized and endorsed by divers and professional bodies across the globe.

With an organization of highly-trained and competent diving professionals, DSRG has also been able to provide the industry with a high-level of Professional Dive Support services, that has gained the acknowledgement and trust of many prominent organizations in the Professional, Government and Research sectors in this region.

It is a lifelong commitment of our organization to play an active role in cultivating and promoting the spirit of underwater exploration, away from industry politics or influence, to uncover the wonderful secrets of this mysterious last frontier of our planet, safely and respectfully.

Deep Submergence Research Group also strives to be the industry role model in the areas of equipment safety and industry best practices for equipment maintenance and standards. With diving being an equipment-intensive engagement, safe and functioning equipment is a critical factor for the sustenance of human lives in such extreme environments.

Key Staff

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Simon Kee started diving in 1993 in a training program with the Naval Diving Unit with the uniformed group back in secondary school. Upon completion of the course, he actively pursued higher diving education with Scuba Schools International. In the year 1997, he branched out into the field of technical diving, starting with his first Basic Nitrox course with Technical Diving International.

Under the superior guidance of the best trainers in Singapore, Simon pushed for greater heights, attaining professional qualifications in 1999 as an Open Water Instructor with SSI and Advanced Nitrox Instructor six months later. This was the time he started his first dive-training company, Blue Manta Explorers.

In 2002, Simon made another leap upwards, attaining the qualification of Instructor Trainer with SSI, and subsequently with TDI after an overseas training stint in Australia.

Operating the dive training school with strict standards and integrity, Simon together with Blue Manta Explorers (today known as DSRG Asia-Pacific Pte Ltd), became constant features within the industry media, and are well-known for their flawless track record of training safety and superior operations standards.

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Yang had the chance of doing his open water class at a young age with a well known

instructor in the region. After his exposure to DIR diving, he decided that was the way to dive. He does not believe in elitism but to share the idea and concept in an approachable

manner.

Yang has also had the good fortune to have trained with renowned instructors worldwide where he picked up a great amount of knowledge and best practices, that he activelt shares through the lessons he conduct. Traveling and gaining experiences in all diving environments around the world is still an on-going process for him, and in his own words, 'This is only the beginning'.