10 Facts About Tom Mount

Tom Mount was an American pioneering cave diver and technical diver.

Tom Mount was a founding member of NACD, the first cave diver training organization in the United States.

Tom Mount was the author of one of the first American cave diving texts, The Cave Diving Manual, three years after Sheck Exley's 1969 Dixie Cavern Kings Cave Diving Manual.

Tom Mount supervised the FLARE and participated in Hydrolab.

Tom Mount was one of the pioneers of cave diving and diver training and development of dive tables for helium-containing trimix as a breathing gas for diving.

Tom Mount remained a member of the board of directors of the IANTD.

Tom Mount published a number of technical diving texts, including the Technical Diver Encyclopedia, Exploration and Mixed Gas Diving Encyclopedia and Tek Closed Circuit Rebreather.

Tom Mount died on 19 January 2022, at the age of 82.

Tom Mount was given the Academy of Underwater Arts and Sciences NOGI Award in 2000 for his outstanding contribution in sports and education.

On 8 October 2016, EUROTEK announced that Tom Mount was to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award for a lifetime of consistent contribution and discovery that has opened up the field of technical diving.