Cayman Marine Lab Staff

Thomas Byrnes, Ph.D.

Tom is the director and manager of Cayman Marine Lab. He has been diving since 1973 and has amassed some 10000 dives. He is also a NAUI instructor with a commercial fishing and building background. Tom received his 25-Ton Captains License in 1976 and has logged many thousands of hours operating boats. He received a doctorate in marine biology from the University of New England while living in Australia where he continued to carry out research resulting in over 20 scientific publications in journals throughout the world. Tom then joined the faculty of Hofstra University in New York where it was his duty to run a marine laboratory in Jamaica. After one year he had decided to start his own marine lab where college groups could study as well as where tourist divers could learn more about the fascinating things they were seeing. The time was right, and Grand Cayman was perfect, so a niche was filled and Cayman Marine Lab took off. CML also works as a consultant with various scientific production organizations such as the BBC and National Geographic as well as numerous others.