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- بريت غيليام (بالإنجليزية: Bret Gilliam) هو كاتب ورائد أعمال أمريكي، ولد في 3 فبراير 1951 في أنابولس في الولايات المتحدة. (ar)
- Bret Clifton Gilliam (born February 3, 1951) is a pioneering technical diver. He is most famous as the founder of the certification agency Technical Diving International, and as the one time holder of the world record for deep diving on air. He is also one of diving's most popular writers. Gilliam is the author or coauthor of 72 books, over 1500 feature magazine articles, and over 100 magazine cover photos. In his diving career he has logged over 19,000 dives since 1959. Gilliam is a multimillionaire from the sale of several businesses that included Technical Diving International (TDI), V. I. Divers Ltd., AMF Yacht Charters, Ocean Quest Cruise Lines, G2 Publishing (Fathoms Magazine), Sea Ventures Ltd., and Uwatec. Several of his companies grew into multi-national conglomerates and two were taken public in major sales while others were sold to private investment groups. The aggregate value of his companies when he sold them was over 80million.GilliamformedtheconsultingserviceOceanTechin1971andcurrentlyprovidesexpertwitnesstestimonyfordivingandmaritimerelatedlegalcases.Since1973,hehasappearedinover400legalcasesnearlyexactlyevenlydividedbetweendefenseandplaintifflitigation.(Arecentcaseinwhichheappearedasthemaritimeanddivingexpertwitnessfortheplaintiffsresultedina80 million. Gilliam formed the consulting service Ocean Tech in 1971 and currently provides expert witness testimony for diving and maritime related legal cases. Since 1973, he has appeared in over 400 legal cases nearly exactly evenly divided between defense and plaintiff litigation. (A recent case in which he appeared as the maritime and diving expert witness for the plaintiffs resulted in a 80million.GilliamformedtheconsultingserviceOceanTechin1971andcurrentlyprovidesexpertwitnesstestimonyfordivingandmaritimerelatedlegalcases.Since1973,hehasappearedinover400legalcasesnearlyexactlyevenlydividedbetweendefenseandplaintifflitigation.(Arecentcaseinwhichheappearedasthemaritimeanddivingexpertwitnessfortheplaintiffsresultedina12 million settlement in May 2015.) Gilliam has also testified in criminal trials and been Congressionally appointed to military court martial proceedings for the U.S. Marine Corps. Special Consultant in various capacities for the U.S. Navy, U.S. Coast Guard (USCG), Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). (en)