Working in the dive industry since 2003, Mik has over 3,000 dives as an instructor, liveaboard cruise director, and boat manager. Between 2011 and 2025, Mik dried off his gear and worked as a reservations consultant, marketing manager, and commercial manager for a big player in the diving liveaboard industry, working alongside countless dive businesses around the world. Somehow he has continued to find the time to dive around the world in some of the best dive destinations from Komodo to the Azores, to the Galapagos Islands. In 2025 Mik co-founded a digital business consultancy, Clear Coast Solutions, with his wife to help small and medium sized dive businesses.