Andy Torbet | |
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| Born | (1976-06-11)11 June 1976 (age 49) Irvine, Scotland |
| Occupations | Adventurer, tv presenter, author |
| Known for | Underwater exploring,The One Show, Operation Iceberg, The People Remember. |
Andy Torbet (born 11 June 1976) is a Scottish underwater explorer, professional cave diver, skydiver, freediver and climber, Film Maker and TV Presenter; most notably theBBC'sThe One Show,[1]Coast,[2]Operation Iceberg,[3]Operation Cloud Lab,[4]Britain's Ancient Capital,[5]The People Remember ,[6]and theChildren's BBC seriesBeyond Bionic which he also co-Produced[7] and spawned its own computer game calledBeyond Bionic-Extreme Encounters.[8]
His first book,Extreme Adventures,[9] was published in 2015 byBantam Press.[10]
He became a host on the showFully Charged in April 2020.[11]
Torbet was brought up in the Scottish Highlands in rural Aberdeenshire. His father was a forester on The Craigston Estate. He attended theUniversity of Sheffield, where he studiedZoology.[12]
Torbet spent 10 years in theBritish Armed Forces as aParatrooper, Army Diver, andbomb disposal officer, including serving with the16 Air Assault Brigade,3 Commando Brigade, the British Army's underwater bomb disposal team and the maritime counter terrorist group.[13]
He was involved in military operations inIraq,Afghanistan,Bosnia and Herzegovina,Kosovo,Northern Ireland andFalkland Islands.
Torbet took up diving at the age of 12, he has since dived on operations in theBritish 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.[14]
Torbet's most notable dives include the Cave Of Skulls[15] a pothole system inMeall nan Aighean, and Scotland's deepest pothole at 48 meters; exploring the wreckHMS Wager (1739) off the coast ofGulf of Penas,Patagonia;[16][17] and the discovery in theEnglish Channel of the MV Shoal Fisher, a wreckedWorld War II merchant ship.
Torbet is a qualified mountaineering and climbing Instructor and member of the Association of Mountaineering Instructors, with new routes and first ascents in the UK, Canada andPakistan. As well as rock climbing, he also ice climbs and was a presenter on theBBC's award-winning Operation Iceberg[18]
Torbet is a professional skydiver; in 2016, on theBBC'sThe One Show, he raced aPeregrine falcon in flight while wearing awingsuit, achieving a win with speeds in excess of 240 mph.[19][non-primary source needed] He also performed aHAHO (High Altitude High Opening) jump for theBBC's Cloud Lab.[20]
His highest jump to date, is 28,000 ft over theArizona desert, in the United States[21]
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