Oxygene Malta sponsors the 2009 Rolex European Scholar
Oxygene Malta recently welcomed Filip Wolski, the current Rolex European Scholar who has just finished his DSAT Tec Trimix course at our dive centre taught by our technical instructor Sven Heymann.

For more than 35 years, Our World Underwater Scholarship Society has created invaluable opportunities for young scholars like Filip to pursue careers related to the underwater world. The society provides experience-based scholarships and internships with renowned marine & fresh water experts throughout the world.

Filip, now 21 years old was born in Poland and since early childhood he has been keenly interested in sciences, logical thinking and the world. At age 10 he was part of a team who qualified to the International Finals of the ´Odyssey of the Mind´ - a competition of creative thinking - finishing in third place. Water he says has always played an important role in his life spending most of his childhood holidays at the shore where he first encountered scuba divers and became fascinated with their strange equipment and longing for his first breath underwater. It was however when Filip moved to the University of Warsaw that his opportunities to pursue his fascination with diving improved and he joined the local Diving Club. Qualified as a PADI Divemaster and Nitrox qualified with more than 200 dives under his belt, Filip helps to instruct handicapped divers and teaches freediving in his spare time. He has been described by his tutors as "the most talented and hard working disciple" and is predicted to be awarded a Fellowship at the University of Warsaw being regarded as one of the best students in the history of the Faculty.

Filip´s dream is to make a significant contribution to diver safety by re-writing decompression schedules and designing better and more efficient dive computer software. Filip is keeping a scholarship diary of his diving adventures which can be read in Sport Diver magazine.

If you are a student with a passion for the underwater world, we invite you to learn more about the society´s internships and scholarships by contacting us on malta@oxygenediving.com or take a look at www.owuscholarship.org. You could be the next scholar!!!! Also the Oxygene Malta staff would like to take this opportunity to wish Filip the best of luck during this year and takes his newly learnt technical diving knowledge to new levels.

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