President of the NOCNSF ( Dutch national olympic comite and sport federation)
Former member of the Dutch Parliament
Bronze medallist swimming Tokyo 1964 Olympics
Former undersecretary for sports and welfare.

Project manager NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations

Project Lead Spaceflight Training

NEEMO Team Project Lead

United Space Alliance

Bill works as a Simulation Supervisor and Project Lead at the Johnson Space Center in Houston , Texas . He is responsible for leading simulations for training of the NASA Astronaut and Flight Control Teams . He has also worked as an Operations Lead at the Mission Control Center in Moscow , Russia .

Several times a year, Bill is responsible for managing the NASA Undersea Research Team “ NEEMO” – NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations. NASA utilizes the “Aquarius” undersea habitat as a research analog for space missions to develop concepts for long-term space habitation. He was first an aquanaut on the 2000 “ NASA SEATEST “ mission and then again for the Oct. 2001 NASA NEEMO 1 mission. He has managed the “ topside “ teams for NASA missions in 2002-2005.

As a little kid, Billy grew up watching the Apollo launches from his beachfront hometown of Cocoa Beach , Florida , where his father was also employed in the Space program. It was there that he was immersed in and captivated by both sea and space environments.

Bills influences have come from a broad field including Homer and Homer Simpson, Jacques Cousteau, Scott Carpenter, Jules Verne, Charles Darwin, Thomas Jefferson, Jimmy Page, SRV and his dad.

SSI Scuba Instructor

President 3VO (Dutch transport safety group)

President Raad voor de transport veiligheid

Board member European Transport Safety Council

President International Transportation safety Association

Married to HRH Prinses Margriet der Nederlanden

Founder, IAND, Inc./IANTD

Dick retired from NOAA in 1985 with 33 years of federal service. He has served as Deputy Diving Coordinator. He was Founder and Director of the NOAA Diving/Hyperbaric Training and Diver Treatment Facility from 1973 to 1985 where hundreds of divers have been treated. He also served as Co-Director for the NOAA/UHMS three week Physician's Diving and Hyperbaric Medical Training Program for the past 19 years. 

Mr. Rutkowski also served as director of ESSA/NOAA Diver Training from 1965 until he retired. He has acquired vast knowledge of diving life support systems including the NOAA saturation systems such as:

* Flare
* Hydrolab
* Aquarius
* Helgoland
* La Chalupa

Mr. Rutkowski has saturated many times and is a NOAA aquanaut. In addition, Mr. Rutkowski is a graduate of Divers Training Academy and past owner and president of "Dive Incorporated " a commercial diving company whose primary purpose was to service oil rigs.
Upon retiring from federal service in 1985, Mr. Rutkowski formed Hyperbarics International, Inc. for the purpose of educating and consulting in the field of hyperbarics medicine, diving gases and life support systems.

Prof. Alessandro Marroni is the founder and President of DAN Europe, Member of the Board of Directors and President of the International DAN and Member of the Board of Directors of DAN America and DAN Southern Africa. He serves as Vice President of the European Committee for Hyperbaric Medicine ( ECHM ); President of the European Foundation for the Education in Baromedicine; and Secretary General of the European College of Baromedicine. He is a Past-President of the International Congress on Hyperbaric Medicine, and the Past President of the European Underwater and Baromedical Society. Prof. Marroni received his Medical Degree ( Magna cum Laude ) from the Bologna University and specialized in Underwater and Hyperbaric Medicine at the University of Genova , Italy . In 1974 he obtained the Post-Graduate Specialization Degree in Occupational Medicine, and in 1993 the Post-Graduate Specialization Degree in Anesthesiology and Intensive Care. While active in the international Underwater and Hyperbaric Medical scientific and diving communities, Prof. Marroni remained involved in clinical Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine and has served as Associate Professor of Underwater and Hyperbaric Medicine at the Underwater and Hyperbaric Medicine Post Graduate School of the University of Chieti and at the Post Graduate School of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care of the University of Ancona, between 1980 and 1997; Professor of Hyperbaric Medicine; and International Faculty Coordinator at the International Post-Graduate School of Baromedicine of the University of Belgrade Medical School , Yugoslavia, since 1997. He has also served as Professor of Diving Medicine at the post-graduate Masters Programme in Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine at the University of Pisa, Italy, since 2005. An avid skin-diver since his early years, he learnt SCUBA diving at the age of 13 and became a Certified Diver with CMAS in 1964 and has been an Active SCUBA Instructor since 1966.