Andy Torbet
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| Born |
11 June 1976 Irvine, Scotland |
| Residence | Bristol, England |
| Occupation | Adventurer, TV presenter, Author |
| Known for | Underwater exploring, The One Show, Operation Iceberg, The People Remember |
Andy Torbet (born 1976) is a British underwater explorer, skydiver, adventurer and TV presenter; most notably the BBC's The One Show,Coast,Operation Iceberg and The People Remember.
His first book, Extreme Adventures, was published in 2015 by Bantam Press.
Torbet was born in Irvine, North Ayrshire, Scotland on 11 June 1976, and brought up near the town of Turriff, Aberdeenshire. His father was a forester on The Craigston Estate. He attended the University of Sheffield, where he studied Zoology.
Torbet spent 10 years in the British Armed Forces as a Paratrooper, diver, and bomb disposal officer, including serving with the 16 Air Assault Brigade, the British army’s underwater bomb disposal team and the maritime counter terrorist group.
He was involved in military operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Northern Ireland and Falkland Islands.
Torbet took up diving at the age of 12, he has since dived on operations in the British Armed Forces, on commercial vessels, and explored cave systems and ship wrecks for his television and publishing work.
He has a number of technical diving qualifications, including cave, mixed gas, rebreather and free-diving as well as professional qualifications as a military and commercial diver and supervisor.
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