Carla Binelli is a Member International with the Explorers Club since 2011

Carla Binelli
MI'11

Since I can remember my dreams were to travel around the world, know different people and discover new places, so I addressed my studies in that way.

I begun to travel for sports purposes in Italy and in Europe, mainly for swimming competitions and these experiences were very enjoyable and formative for my life!

My University Master was in Modern Languages (German, French, English and Spanish) and travelling for courses in these foreign languages was a compulsory pleasure!

At the same time I was working as professional tour guide for different Italian Tour Operators and I attended some courses at Faculty of Archaeology as well since it was another passions of mine.
In my teaching carrier I was appointed professor in several Italian high schools and colleges, while in the summertime I was continuing to travel around the world as a professional tour guide that was a great experience of life for me.

In 1972 I got my first diver certification and in the same year I went to Maldives (Indian Ocean) as tour leader: this was one of my best experiences. I was one of the first tour leaders and a pioneer of diving in these wonderful islands; in Bandos (a Maldivian island) I achieved a lot of diving experience assisting the pioneer of diving Herwarth Voigtmann with his early experiments in shark feeding and u/w biology research. In this period I begun my studies in marine biology.
Afterwards I travelled as a professional tour & diving guide working with this role in Seychelles, Mauritius, Sri Lanka (Ceylon), Egypt and in many other seaside countries in Indian Ocean, Red Sea and Mediterranean.

In 1988 I retired as a professor and I began to travel all the year round working full time as a tour and diving leader resident abroad. In these years I attended several diving courses and in 1991 I got my instructor certification and the same year I joined Acquamarina Diving School as educational manager in charge of diving programs, where I have been working till today.
I was co-owner of a diving center in Italy and after I was co-owner and base leader of a diving center in Madoogali (Maldives) from 1992 to 1996 managed by Acquamarina.

In 1996 I was appointed President of Acquamarina s.a.s., an Italian trade company for diving equipment. As a Master Instructor I staffed more than thirty instructor development courses in various languages (Italian, German, French, English & Spanish) and in various countries (Italy, Maldives, France, Germany, Croatia, etc.). In 1994 I achieved the diving medical emergency instructor trainer certification.

In 1993 I began my mixed gas technical courses becoming a pioneer diver of nitrox, trimix and technical diving in Italy (lonely woman in these years). I achieved almost all technical certifications as diver and as instructor and actually I am Instructor Trainer. I was member in various wreck diving expeditions in Mediterranean, Aegean, Red Sea and Indian Ocean. In July 2003, and again in 2005 and 2009 I was the only women member of the expedition to the 22,000 tons wreck of the austroungarian battleship Szent Istvàn, sunk in Adriatic Sea in 1918.

In my life I certified more than 1.000 people as divers and instructors and I performed thousands and thousands dives for teaching diving, guiding divers, exploring new sites and shipwrecks, studying u/w marine biology and more. In 2004 I was elected fellow of the Women Divers Hall of Fame (WDHOF).

In June 2011 I was member of the expedition in Greece on the shipwreck of the Monrosa steamer leaded by the Explorer Club Fellow Fabio Ruberti bearing Flag 176.