Kian has been diving since 2014 and has spent the years since pushing into more technical territory, earning cave and deep certifications in 2022 and 2023. That progression tracks closely with his engineering interests — technical diving rewards the same careful risk assessment, redundancy planning, and equipment discipline that shows up in his design work.
He currently works at Dive Right In Scuba, based out of Plainfield, Illinois, operating as a "jack of all trades": sales at their Orland Park location, with regular stints in shipping, regulator repair, and boat and pool maintenance. He also runs Double Action Dive Charters as their booking and crew organizer. Along with the work comes the diving itself — recent trips have included technical dives on the Straits of Mackinac, and he particularly enjoys exploring long-lost shipwrecks in Lake Michigan and around the world.
