PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer, PADI Speciality Instructor & EFR Instructor.

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I completed my first scuba dive – the PADI Discover Scuba Diving experience – whilst on holiday in 2004.  I knew then that I wanted to become a "proper" scuba diver. 

 

Eleven years later I turned 40 and decide that it was about time I got on with it!

 

After completing my PADI Open Water course, I went straight on to do the Advanced Open Water course and then as many specialities as I could get to. 

 

On family holidays I would always try to squeeze in a dive or two and have dived in a variety of different environments, from wrecks off of the Canary Islands, to warm prehistoric caves in Florida and Crete, to the much colder waters of the Farne Islands (home to a seal colony) and I have even dived in one of the world’s largest aquariums!

 

One of the best trips of my life was diving the Red Sea in Egypt, a non-stop rollercoaster of a dive experience, allowing me to see things that many people on this planet will never will and helping me to fine tune my skills on the way. 

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After becoming a Master Scuba Diver in 2020, I decided that I wanted to get into diving professionally and I went on to get my Dive Master qualification the following year. 

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I then went on to become an Assistant Instructor in May 2022 and continued in that role for a couple of years.  Those years gave me an invaluable grounding in teaching people the skills that they need to succeed as a scuba diver and was a great segway to taking on the Open Water Scuba Instructor – or ‘OSWI’ – course, which I successfully completed in December 2023.

 

Since then, I’ve completed a number of PADI specialty instructor courses and have come full circle, teaching the very same open water courses and specialty courses that I got so much enjoyment from in the early part of my own journey. 

 

By July 2024 I had gain the requisite experience to become a PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer and I continue to teach in that role.

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Becoming a Scuba Instructor was a great adventure, which you can read about in my BLOG

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And so the journey continues........