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 |
Assistant Instructor Emergency First Response Instructor | Steve Noss Master Instructor Emergency First Response Instructor
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Crystal Landes Instructor Emergency First Response Instructor |
IDC Staff Instructor Emergency First Response Instructor HSA Instructor |
Tony Coward Divemaster |
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
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IDC Staff Instructor Emergency First Response Instructor HSA Course Director | |
Rodney Marshall IDC Staff Instructor EFR Instructor HSA Instructor TDI Instructor |




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