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Meet The Dive Team

Adventure Scuba is proud to offer the most experienced and highly trained diving professionals in the world.  Our Dive Team has over 200 years' combined experience in the dive industry.  Our PADI professional Instructors, Assistant Instructors and Divemasters are trained as Emergency First Response Instructors.  Most hold higher level certifications as Master Scuba Diver Trainers and Master Instructors and a full time Course Director on staff.  We also boast a staff of Divemasters, Instructors and Course Directors from the Handicapped Scuba Association, allowing us to offer scuba diving training to the physically challenged.  On the technical side, we have Divemasters, Instructors and Course Director certified by Technical Diving International (TDI),  training advanced level divers in technical diving programs.

As a PADI 5 Star Instructor Development Center, we have trained well over 3500 scuba divers at various levels of training ranging from Discover Scuba Diving to Open Water, Advanced Open Water, Rescue Diver and over 24 diver specialties including Underwater Digital Photography, Wreck Diving, Enriched Air Nitrox and many others. We also are a leader in professional development courses from Divemaster, Assistant Instructor, Instructor as well as numerous Specialty Instructor programs.

Our experience includes staff who have worked at all levels in the scuba industry.  From retail operations, scuba equipment service technicians, industry sales representatives, beach resorts, and dive boats.  We truly have "...been there, done that..." which translates in a quality learning experience by all of our divers in training. 

Supported by the Professional Association of Diving Instructors, you will be trained using state of the art materials, equipment and educational models.  PADI is the worldwide leader in diver education, certifying more new divers than all the other training agencies combined.  We encourage you to stop by Adventure Scuba to meet the staff and tour our facility.  There is no better training facility in the Southwest, even if we do say so ourselves!

 

                                             

 John Landes

Instructor

Emergency First Response Instuctor

                                                       

Richard Dean

PADI Course Director

EFR Instuctor Trainer

HSA Instructor

TDI Instructor

  

Jerry Short

Assistant Instructor

Emergency First Response Instructor 

HSA Asst. Inst       

 

Justin Harris

Instructor

Emergency First Response Instructor

HSA Divemaster

  

Mike Vickrey

Assistant Instructor

Emergency First Response Instructor           

 

Steve Noss

Master Instructor

Emergency First Response Instructor

 

  

Crystal Landes

Instructor

Emergency First Response Instructor

  

Steve Olson

IDC Staff Instructor

Emergency First Response Instructor

HSA Instructor

         

 

Tony Coward

Divemaster

 

Vin Robinson

Master Scuba Diver Trainer

Emergency First Response Instructor

        

Olga Shesternova

Divemaster

     

Rick Ruff

Assistant Instructor

Emergency First Response Instructor        

        

Virginia Woods

Divemaster

 

     

Theressa Smith

Divemaster

HSA Divemaster

        

Rick Garrett

Master Scuba Diver Trainer

Emergency First Response Instructor

      

 

Steve Smith

Divemaster

        

John Hall

Instructor

EFR Instructor

HSA Instructor

                                    

Joe Pazos

Master Instructor

EFR Instructor Trainer

HSA Course Director 

 

        

Tracy Hamilton

IDC Staff Instructor

Emergency First Response Instructor

HSA Course Director

 

        

Rodney Marshall

IDC Staff Instructor

EFR Instructor

HSA Instructor

TDI Instructor